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Programs Forum This issue can also be found at <www.osi.hu/cpd/spf/46_'00.html> **************************************************************** In this issue: Projects and Initiatives of the OSI/Soros Foundations Network -New Structure of Publishing Program in Romania -Results of Lesbian & Gay Issues Pilot Translation Project -Translation Project Competition Results in Yugoslavia Translations Published - Update Supplement -Translation Project 1999 Summary ======================================================= Projects and Initiatives of the OSI/Soros Foundations Network ======================================================= NEW STRUCTURE OF PUBLISHING PROGRAM IN ROMANIA The Open Society Foundation in Romania has transformed itself into Soros Open Network (SON), a federation of organizations with the common mission of promoting the values of an open society. The foundation’s branches and programs will acquire independence forming semi-independent units. Publishing activities will be carried out through the ‘Concept’ Foundation, whose aim is to promote a new attitude towards cultural products. ‘Concept’ will be both a direct founder and an intermediary between other donors, also from the commercial world, and cultural producers. Concept will also strive to create a mechanism for the development and functioning of sustainable cultural projects. CONCEPT Foundation Strada Pictor Constantin Stahi nr. 14, Bucuresti RESULTS OF LESBIAN & GAY ISSUES PILOT TRANSLATION PROJECT The idea of the sponsoring of translations on lesbian & gay issues was piloted in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia [see Forum 43]. The interest the project generated was high and resulted in 24 applications. Also publishers and groups from countries outside the piloting five got to know about the competition and made their inquiries. Encouraged by this interest CPD will announce a new Lesbian & Gay Issues Translation Project later this year, this time including all East European and Central Asian countries. The project provoked also a few negative reactions. In Bulgaria the tabloid ‘Monitor’ published an article attacking it ("Soros's servants finally started digging into gender problems […] to destroy the specificity of the Bulgarian culture"). This article may partly explain the high number of applications from this country. BULGARIA 1. Alexander, Christopher (ed.): Gay and Lesbian Mental Health: A sourcebook for practitioners, $2,500 2. Borhek, Mary: Coming out to Parents, $2,495 3. Dover, K.J.: Greek Homosexuality, $3,000 4. Eribon, Didier: Reflections on the Gay Question, $3,000 5. Halperin, David: One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, $3,035 6. Hocquenghem, Guy: Homosexual Desire, $2,023 7. Kaufman, G. and Raphael, L.: Coming out of Shame: Transforming gay and lesbian lives, $2,300 8. Mondimore, F.: A Natural History of Homosexuality, $2,300 CZECH REPUBLIC 1. Faderman, Lilian: Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present, $4,500 2. Rupp, Leila: A Desired Past: A short history of same-sex love in America, $3,000 HUNGARY 3. Brown, J.: Immodest Acts: The life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy, $1,661 4. Dover, K.J.: Greek Homosexuality, $2,288 5. Grau, Gunter (ed.): Homosexualitaet in der NS-Zeit, $2,974 6. Mosse, George: The Image of Man: The creation of modern masculinity, $2,210 SLOVENIA 1. Boswell, J.: Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, $5,000 2. Faderman, Lilian: Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present, $2,000 TRANSLATION PROJECT COMPETITION RESULTS IN YUGOSLAVIA CEU Translation Project 1. Adriani, G., W. Konnertz, and K. Thomas: Joseph Beuys. Leben und Werk, $6,600 2. Beck, Urlich: Risikogesellshaft, Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne, $2,600 3. Besancon, Alain: Le malheur du siecle, $1,000 4. Burke, Edmund: Reflections On The Revolution In France, $1,800 5. George, Henry: Progress and Poverty, $6,600 6. Girarde, Raul: Political Myths and Mythology, $2,000 7. Glenny, Misha: Balkans 1804-1999, Wars, Nationalism, Great Powers, $7,000 8. Greene, Alice Borchard: The Philosophy of Silence, $1,800 9. Heisenberg, Werner: Physics and Philosophy, $1,100 10. Hinsley, Francis Harry: Sovereignty, $2,000 11. Itule, Bruce D., Douglas A. Anderson: News Writing and Reporting For Today’s Media, $7,300 12. Moore, Barrington Jr.: The Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship, $3,300 13. Perry, M.: Intellectual History of Europe, $4,300 14. Roth, Klaus: People’s Culture In South Eastern Europe, $1,500 15. Singer, Peter: Practical Ethics, $3,000 16. Walzer, Michael: Spheres of Justice, $2,600 17. Wedgwood, C.V.: The Thirty Years’ War, $5,200 ‘East Translates East’ Project This time mainly fiction titles were supported within the project run under the motto ‘East Europe is Fiction’. 1. Dovlatov, Sergey: Days, $1,320 (from Russian) 2. Genis, Aleksandar: Dovlatov i obkrazenie/Dovlatov and Surroundings, $1,900 (from Russian) 3. Hristov, Boris: Dolinata na obuvkite/The Shoe Valley, $2,200 (from Bulgarian) 4. Jergovic, Miljenko: Sarajevski Marlboro/Sarajevo Marlboro, $1,000 (local publication of Croatian edition) 5. Kapuscinski, Ryszard: Lapidarium/The Lapidarium, $2,650 (from Polish) 6. Kieslowski, Krzysztof and Krzysztof Piesiewicz: Dekalog/The Decalog, $1,760 (from Polish) 7. Lazarevska, Alma: Smrt u muzeju moderne umetnosti/Death in Museum of Modern Art, $910 (local publication of Bosnian edition) 8. Lovrenovic, Ivan: Unutarnja zemlja: Kulturna povijest Bosne i Hercegovine/The Inner Land: A cultural history of Bosnia and Hercegovina, $1,300 (local edition of Croatian edition) 9. Pavlowich, Stevan K.: A History of the Balkans 1804-1945, $2,600 (from English) 10. Pernes, Jirzi: Habzburkove bez trunu/Habsburgs without a Throne, $2,600 (from Czech) 11. Szilagyi, Andor: Shalim/Salim, $1,170 (from Hungarian) 12. Tepeneag, Dumitru: Zadarnica e arta fugii/The Useless Art of the Fugue, $1,600 (from Romanian) 13. Vilikovsky, Pavol: Kruty strojvodca/The Cruel Engine-Driver, $1,320 (from Slovak) 14. Zagajewski, Adam: Maly Larousse/Small Larousse, $2,350 (from Polish) Law excerpts from Lithuania and Tajikistan have been added within the Publishing Legislation Online Project (PLOP). New texts have been to the Logos Archive: 1. Kaufman, Peter: Reconnecting the book communities of East and West 2. Myasnikov, Alexander: Soviet libraries today Musil, Jiri and Zdenek Suda (eds.): The Meaning of Liberalism – East and West Forum bids farewell from Lydia Hryva who has left the International Renaissance Foundation. She will continue working on her MA in applied sociology. Also Natasa Petrinjak left her foundation (OSI Croatia). Her position has been taken over by Sasa Milosevic, the Director of Media Program. His e-mail address is <smilosevic@soros.hr>. ======================================================= Translations Published - Update ======================================================= New titles published within the CEU Translation Project: LATVIA Rorty, Richard: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, $2,578, $162/author’s sheet LITHUANIA Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann: Social Construction of Reality, $3,250, $266/author’s sheet TRANSLATIONS PUBLISHED WITHIN OTHER PROGRAMS MACEDONIA Jordan, Glen Weedon and Chris Weedon: Cultural Politics. Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World, $5,000 (Gender/Women’s Translation Project 1998) NATIONAL PROGRAMS: LATVIA 1. Canetti, Elias: Masse und Macht, $9,790, $280/author’s sheet 2. Fullan, Michael: Change Forces. Probing the Depth of Educational Reform, $3,168, $285/author’s sheet ======================================================= Supplement ======================================================= TRANSLATION PROJECT 1999 SUMMARY THE MOST POPULAR TITLES IN THE CEU TRANSLATION PROJECT The CEU Translation Project has supported the translation of 1,248 titles to date. At least 357 of them have already been published. "The CEU Reader in Contemporary Political Philosophy" edited by Janos Kis with the 13 countries which chose it is undoubtedly the most popular title in the project. However, as it was specially commissioned and offered separately, it constitutes an exceptional case. The most popular titles (chosen in 9 countries) from the project list over the part three years are as follows: 1. Geertz, Clifford: The Interpretation of Cultures 2. Schorske, Karl: Fin-de-siecle Vienna Selected in 8 countries: 1. Anderson, Benedict: Imagined Communities 2. Benjamin, Walter: Illuminationen 3. Hobsbawm, Eric: Nations and Nationalism since 1780 4. Burke, Peter: The Renaissance In 7 countries: 1. Woolf, Virginia: A Room of One's Own 2. Dahrendorf, Ralph: Der moderne soziale Konflikt In 6 countries: 1. Burke, Peter: Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe 2. Carr, E.H.: What is History? 3. Dornbusch, Rudiger; Stanley Fischer: Macroeconomics 4. Elias, Norbert: Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation 5. Foucault, Michel: Surveiller et punir 6. Gadamer, Hans-Georg: Selected Essays 7. Hayek, Friedrich von: The Fatal Conceit 8. Nisbet, Robert: Conservatism 9. Nozick, Robert: Anarchy, State and Utopia 10. Popper, Karl: Unended Quest 11. Williamson, Oliver E. and Winter, Sidney G.: The Nature of the Firm In 5 countries: 1. Aron, Raymond: Paix et guerre entre les nations 2. Duby, Georges: Les tempes des cathedrales 3. Rawl, John: Political Liberalism 4. Taylor, Charles: The Ethics of Authenticity 5. Veyne, Paul: Les Grecs ont-ils cru a leurs mythes? 6. Wandycz, Piotr: The Price of Freedom [For a similar listing for 1998 see Forum 26] The most popular fields in the CEU Translation Project list seem to be "history" and "social science, anthropology" where all the books proposed are being chosen at least in one country (usually in 3-4). THE MOST POPULAR TITLES IN THE "EAST TRANSLATES EAST" TRANSLATION PROJECT "East Translates East" Project has sponsored 121 titles, of which at least 14 have already been published. The most popular titles are as follows: 1. Lotman, Yuri: Culture and Discontinuity/Kultura i vzryv (selected in 7 countries, from Russian) 2. Gombrowicz, Witold: Diaries/Dzienniki (5 countries, from Polish) 3. Jergovic, Miljenko: Sarajevo Marlboro/Sarajevski Marlboro (4 countries, from Croatian) 4. Konstantovic, Radomir: Small Town Philosophy/Filozofija palanke (4 countries, from Serbian) Various titles by Jan Patocka have been selected in 5 countries (translation from Czech). GRANT/AUTHOR’S SHEET INDICATOR IN THE TRANSLATION PROJECT ACROSS THE COUNTRIES The average grant per author’s sheet for the whole CEU Translation Project was as follows: 1998 – $198, 1999 – $183 The average grant per author’s sheet indicator looks in particular countries as follows: Albania 1998 - $372, 1999 – no competition Armenia 1998 – no competition, 1999 – $350 Bulgaria 1998 – $115, 1999 – $124 Czech Republic 1998 - $118, 1999 – $170 Estonia 1998 - $239, 1999 - $223 Georgia 1998 - $201, 1999 - $309 Hungary 1998 - $90, 1999 - $100 (only East Translates East Project) Kazakstan 1998 - $312, 1999 - $377 Latvia 1998 - $295, 1999 - $127 Lithuania 1998 - $325, 1999 - $241 Macedonia 1998 - $171, 1999 - $109 Moldova 1998 - $265, 1999 - $251 Poland 1998 - $167, 1999 - $133 Romania 1998 - $83, 1999 - $72 Russia 1998 - $187, 1999 – $187 Slovenia 1998 - $226, 1999 - $224 Ukraine 1998 - $200, 1999 - $146 Yugoslavia 1998 - $178, 1999 - $131 ======================================================= Open Society Information Programs Forum is published by the OSI Center for Publishing Development in collaboration with the OSI Network Library Program. 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