Seminars and Events

Seminars/Workshops/Lectures/Talks / Events held 1999-April 2015:

1) Problem areas in the teaching of Russian language  (Seminar, 1999) 

2) Concepts of Spoken Russian  (Seminar, 2000) 

3) Lyrics in the Russian Classroom, Workshop conducted by Dr.Laxmi  S. Mikaelyan,  with  Ms. Marcheva from Bulgaria (Workshop: March 2003)  

4) Russkaya rech (Spoken Russian): Workshop- cum- Summer Programme on Spoken Russian (duration-24 hrs in four weeks) conducted by Dr.Laxmi  S. Mikaelyan. (Workshop- cum- Summer Programme : Summer vacation 2003) 

5) Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) Stikhi, sudba, rukopisi. (Talk by Ms E.V. Alekseeva ,independent researcher from Princeton, USA: 2004) 

6) Reading Pushkin. Session I.  Reciting Pushkin. Session II. Resource Person Ms. E.V. Alekseeva , independent researcher from Princeton, USA. (Workshop in Two Sessions: March 2004) 

7) "Contemporary Trends in Russian Language & literature Teaching – Issues and Perspectives" 13th & 14^th December, 2004 (International Seminar: 2004)
Organized jointly with the Central Department of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation Culture Centre of Russia), with the participation of a delegation of 12 Russian Scholars under the leadership of Dr. Yuri Prokhorov, Rector, Pushkin Institute of Russian Language, Moscow.  It attracted an equal number of participants from all the major Universities in Maharashtra, and the National Defence Academy as well as other organizations, where Russian is taught. 

8) "Religion in Russia" Talk by Mikhail Chistyakov, on 23.02.05  

9) "St. Petersburg – Petrograd – Leningrad – St. Petersburg " Talk by Mikhail Chistyakov on 06.03.05  

10) "Sanskritology in Russia", Lecture by Dr. Ms. Eugenia Yu. Vanina, Head, History and Culture Section, Centre for Indian Studies, Institute of Oriental   Studies, (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), jointly organized by the Department of Russian and the Department of Sanskrit, University of Mumbai on Friday, 16^th December 2005, 3.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. in the Room No. 36, Ranade Bhavan, University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari Campus, Mumbai –98. 

11.  " The Russian Discovery of India: Orientalism with a Difference",  Lecture by Dr. Ms. Eugenia Yu. Vanina, Head, History and Culture Section, Centre for Indian Studies, Institute of Oriental   Studies, (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), jointly organized by the Department of Russian and the Department of History, University of Mumbai on   14.12.05,  2005,   11.00 a.m –1.00 p.m  in the Lecture Hall, Room No 3, University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari Campus, Mumbai –98. 

12. Teaching of Russian in the University of Mumbai : Interview of the Head of the Department   and Demo Class conducted by Dr. Laxmi S. Mikaelyan, Reader in Russian and Head, University Department  of Russian during the Visit (and filming)  by Channel 3 ( TV Crew from Moscow) to the University Department of Russian  on 27.01.06 (Special Academic Event)  

13. "The System of Russian Cases" Lecture (under the  Lecture Series) by Dr.S.A. Lutin, Head, Department of  Russian, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia  on Sunday, 05.03.06 9.00 a.m – 11.00 am, Lecture Room of the computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Ranade Bhawan, Kalina, campus." 

14. "The System of Russian Cases" Lecture (under the  Lecture Series) by Dr.S.A. Lutin, Head, Department of  Russian, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia  on Sunday, 05.03.06 (9.00a.m – 11.00 am) 

15. "Word-Order in Russian"  Lecture (under the  Lecture Series) by Dr.S.A. Lutin, Head, Department of  Russian, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia  on Sunday, 05.03.06, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm 

16. "Russian Cases and their Invariant Meanings" Workshop (Resource Person : Dr.S.A. Lutin, Head, Department of  Russian, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia) organised by the University Department of Russian in collaboration with the Cultural Department of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation  on Wednesday, 08.03.06 (International Women’s day) 

17.  International Seminar "Processes in Russian Language, Literature and Methodology of Teaching Russian Today" co-organised by the University Department of Russian and the Cultural Centre of Russia  (The Cultural Department of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Mumbai) in Collaboration with the  Saint-Petersburg State University & The Russian Society of the Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (ROPRYAL)on 30^th, 31^st October and 1^st November 2006 .  

18.  The Department of Russian (University of Mumbai) and the Cultural Centre of Russia  (Consulate General of the Russian Federation) organized a weeklong Russian Film Festival and Photo Exhibition (Depicting 60 years of Diplomatic Relations between Russian & India) from 22^nd February – 28^th February 2007 at the  J. N. Library, Kalina Campus. 

19.  A two day international Russian Language Seminar "Lessons in Russian" was organized by the Cultural Centre of Russia jointly with the Department of Russian, University of Mumbai on 26^th & 27^th November, 2008. 

20. Teaching Strategies & Learning Techniques "A Day of Russian" in collaboration with the Cultural Department of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation, 22.02.12.  

21. Lecture on "Obzor russkoi literaturi s 19 veka do nashikh dnei" by Dr. Indira Musaeva on 28.02.2012.

22. Lecture on " Russia and china – mysteries in their own way" by Mr. Ali Shahanshah on 16.02.2013 

23. One-day Regional seminar on the Topic: "Facets of teaching/ learning Russian" on Thursday, 28.03.2013. 

24. Programme of lectures and poem recitations "Remembering and celebrating A.S.Pushkin " on 06.06.2013 

25. A two- day International Conference "Reception of Maxim Gorky in India" was organized by the University Departments of Russian and Gujarati on the 28^th & 29^th November, 2013. 

26. National Seminar on the Topic:"Reading and Understanding A. P. Chekhov  on Saturday, 28.03.2015.

Publications in the Department 2003-2015

1. "Twenty-Four Hours of Russian ", by Dr.Laxmi  S. Mikaelyan,  University of Mumbai Press, 2004. 

2. "Lyrics in the Russian classroom", compiled & translated by Dr. Laxmi S. Mikaelyan, University of Mumbai Press, 2004.   

3. Инновации и изменения в русской лексике ( Original in Russian; Title translated into English : "Innovations and Changes in Russian Lexis after Perestroika") by Dr.Laxmi  S. Mikaelyan, pp 408-414 in Proceedings of the Theoretical and Practical Conference ‘Motinskiye Readings’ on Professional Pedagogic Traditions in the Teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language, held in Moscow 12-14 October 2005, Part 2, published by the Izdatelstvo of RUDN, Moscow, Russia.  

4. Этнолингвистический подход при обучении русскому языку как иностранному

( Original in Russian; Title translated into English : " Ethnolinguistic approach in the teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language") by Dr.Laxmi  S. Mikaelyan, pp 30-36 in "Russian Philology. Occasional papers. Number 33, 2005", Central Institute of English and Foreign languages, Hyderabad, 2005. 

5.  Dr.(Smt) Laxmi S. Mikaelyan, Reader , Department of Russian, University of Mumbai

Book: Moya Kniga : Russian Zero Level to Basic (Russian Textbook for Beginners)  Publisher: University of Mumbai; 2007. 

 6. Пословицы русского языка – учебный ресурс и учебная стратегия  (Article in Russian: Title translated into English  "Russian proverbs as a teaching resource and a teaching strategy"), by Dr.Laxmi  S. Mikaelyan, pp 91-93 in the Research Journal "Vestnik RUDN, Seriya Voprosy  obrazovaniya: yazyki I spetsial’nost",  Issue #4, 2009, Moscow  

7. Некоторые процессы русификации лексических заимствований в русском языке начала XXI века (Article in Russian: Title translated into English "Certain Procceses of rusification of lexical borrowings in Russian language in the beginning of XXI century"), by Dr.Laxmi  S. Mikaelyan, pp. 143 – 151 (in "Kompleks nauchna-metodicheskikh meropriatii po problemam prepodavaniya russkovo yazyka kak inostrannovo" published by the TGPUniversity named after L.N. Tolstoy, Tula, Russia, 2012.