{"id":28,"date":"2018-11-19T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2021-05-07T07:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T11:16:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This site serves as a central source of information for the course \u201cRussian in Boston.\u201d This course combines the study of Russian language and culture with a community-based practicum to examine Russian-speaking diaspora in Boston and the surrounding region to understand the point of view and personal experience and beliefs of the local Russian-speaking communities. The purpose of the community-based research is to elicit and analyze very different stories and experiences that can inform multi-faceted ethnographic study, in which narrative interviews are a key research tool. Students conduct oral interviews in Russian with members of local \u00e9migr\u00e9 communities and build up an online database and a digital archive for further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"kaltura_player\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2159741\/embedPlaykitJs\/uiconf_id\/54272102?iframeembed=true&#038;entry_id=1_6fkmluj0\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozAllowFullScreen allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Kaltura Player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site serves as a central source of information for the course \u201cRussian in Boston.\u201d This course combines the study of Russian language and culture with a community-based practicum to examine Russian-speaking diaspora in Boston and the surrounding region to understand the point of view and personal experience and beliefs of the local Russian-speaking communities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1591,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/russianchat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}