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Let
me sketch out a typical week in the past month: on Sunday, a colleague in
Poland sent me a request to help chair an international workshop for graduate
students from Israel and Poland to be held next June in Wrocław, and asked me
to recruit appropriate graduate students for the workshop. On Monday I received
an email from a major Slavic studies journal in the United States asking if I
would review a new book (by coincidence, by the Polish colleague who had
written me the day before). On Tuesday a
graduate student from England sent me a series of questions related to her
doctoral thesis. On Wednesday I
contacted a colleague in Budapest to set up a time to meet during my planned
visit to Hungary. On Thursday I
exchanged articles with a colleague in the States as part of keeping up to date
on matters of mutual interest.
The
point of this catalog is not to show how busy my week can be, but rather to
illustrate that in my field of history and, I am sure, in most areas of the
humanities, our enterprise has become a truly international ongoing
conversation, and not just limited to conferences once or twice a year.
Our
research too takes place in an ever-expanding international arena, made
possible of course by the Internet.
Again, during a typical week I might consult a number of databases based
in Europe, such as Europeana or the sites of major university libraries in
Poland or Germany.
Even
as more and more of the world's scholars and databases can be accessed from the
convenience of one's own desktop, for those of us in the humanities there is
still no substitute for direct exposure to the subjects of our research and to
colleagues engaged in similar ventures. Sustained hands-on contact with the
sights, sounds, language and culture of our specialized fields of interest is a
desired experience for making us better scholars, and certainly increases our
value in the scholarly market.
Gaining
this international exposure, however, demands careful planning and good advice.
When is the best stage to travel abroad for intensive, full-immersion language
study? What are the best places for such study? The attendant costs? Where are
the best institutions for graduate study in one's field? Is it advisable in
one's field to do a doctorate abroad and an MA in one's home country, or
perhaps the opposite? Is it better to seek out an English-language course of
study abroad or is study in the local language preferable? These are but a few
of the complex issues that need to be addressed. Only through the best kind of guidance, from
people who have undergone this process and know the challenges and also the
opportunities inherent in international study can one achieve one's goals in
the optimal manner.
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