ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE D'ETUDES DU SUD-EST EUROPEEN AIESBE National Committee of the Republic of North Macedonia XIII congress of South-East European studies Skopje, 4.3.2024 Dear Colleagues, As you were previously informed, the xIIIth AIESEE congress titled ,.communication and Exchange: South-Eastern Europe within Gtobat Social, Political and Cultural processes,, was planned fot 2024. However, due to objective reasons, the Congress had to be reschedu led for 2025 . We would like to inform you that the XIIIth AIESEE Congress of South-East European Studies on the topic: "Communication and Exchange: South-Eastern Europe within Global Social, Political and Cultural Processes" will be held in Skopje, from 15 to 19 September 2025, in the premises ofthe Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The official working languages ofthe l3th AIESEE Congress are English and French. Members and associates of the national AIESEE committees are kindly invited to participate in the congress. In addition, other researchers interested in the proposed topic, and young researchers and PhD students are also invited. Please, send the titles and abstracts of your contributions to the following address congress2023@aiesee@manu.edu.mk by I November 2024.please indicate the session of the congress in which you wish to participate. The organizers will notiS,'you whether your proposal has been accepted not later than 31 December 2024. All previous applications that were received in reference to the initially planned Congress in 2A24 will be taken into consideration and all the applicants will be informed about their acceptance no later than 3l December 2024. Enclosed.you will find the 20 sessions of the congress and some additional information about the congress registration. Sincerely, Acad. Dragi Gjorgiev President XIIfh Congress of South-East European Studies Communication and Exchange: South-Eastern Europe within Global Social, Political and Cultural processes Skopje, 15-19 September 2025 Sessions L Cultural exchange from the antiquity and middle ages up to modern times 2. Transport communications through the history 3. Economic relations and trade exchange 4. Science and knowledge exchange in the South-Eastern Europe 5. Role of emigrants in establishing social, political and cultural links 6. Intelligentsia and academic elite inlfrom south-Eastern Europe 7. Literary and translation production in the transfer of knowledge and ideas 8. Linguistic interferences in/with South-Eastern Europe 9' Exchange of ideas between national movements in the South-Eastem Europe and beyond 10. Identity in South-Eastern Europe in historical retrospective I 1 . concepts of violence in the social, political and cultural processes 12. Ways and methods of knowledge distribution 13. Interactions and contradictions between science and religions 14. scientific exchange and institutional building in south-Eastern Europe 15. Communication and exchange through visualisation: archives, museums, photography, cinematography, print in South-Eastern Europe 16. Historiography and memory in the social and cultural processes of South-Eastem Europe 17. Knowledge transfer through traveling: the role of voyagers, ambassadors and missionaries in global communication 18. Role of women in the cultural and academic processes in South-Eastern Europe 19. Diaspora communities inlfrom South-Eastern Europe 20. Religious networks - historical discourse Registrationfee The amount of the registration fee is 80 EUR. PhD students providing supporting documents have a special fee rate of 40 EUR. The registration fee is to be settled by I May 2025. The registration fees payment details, as well as other information related to the congress will be available on the congress website : http : //m a nu.edu.mlc/con gress/. For additional information you can contact Mr. Goce Aleksoski from the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, on email: goce@manu.edu.mk.

SEESA Harrison Travel Grants Awardees 2024

SEESA is happy to announce the names of the awardees of the SEESA Harrsion Travel Grants for 2024. They are: - Lindon Dedvukaj, The Ohio State University. - Oriane Girard, Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology & the French School of Athens 22 rue Vacon, 13001 Marseille, France. - Marija Pandeva, Boban Karapejovski “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, “Krste Misirkov” Institute for Macedonian Language. These students will present in the 23rd Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore that will be hosted by the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS in May 2-4, 2024. Congratulations to the awardees!

Questionnaire from Bulgarian Studies Association

Scholars in the field of South East European Studies are invited to complete this questonaire and email it to divanova@fieldmuseum.org and Cc Slaveya Nedelcheva at slaveya@gmail.com. Уважаеми ……, Моля попълнете настоящата анкета за двустранната българо-американска конференция 15 и 16 юни 2024 г. като отбележите Вашата афилиация и научна степен, областта на Вашите изследвания и темата, с която бихте участвали: 1. Работя в ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2. Моите научни интереси са в областта на ………………………………………………………………………….. 3. Мога да участвам със следната тема за двустранната българо-американска конференция ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4. Перспективите за общи проекти и съвместни научни разработки с американски колега са в областта на ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5. Смятам, че двустранната конференция можа да се проведе под следната обобщаваща тема ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6. Отправям следните пожелания към организаторите………………………………………………………….

Call for Papers

 

23rd Biennial Conference on 

Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore 

 

The 23rd biennial conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore will be hosted by the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, May 2-4, 2024 (Thursday-Saturday). The conference will be sponsored by the South East European Studies Association (SEESA), the Department of Modern Languages and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. 

 

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is November 20, 2023.  

 

Papers should treat some aspect of Balkan and/or South Slavic linguistics, literature, folklore or culture. Abstracts should be submitted electronically to Donald Dyer at [mldyer@olemiss.edu] and be no more than one page in length, with a second optional page for data, graphics, bibliography and the like. A 12-point font and 1” margins should be used. The abstracts do not need to be anonymized. Notification of selection, as well as invitation letters, if needed, will be sent by December 11.  

 

Students, both undergraduate and graduate, are encouraged to apply for a SEESA Harrison Travel Grant to support their participation at the conference. More information on these grants is available at [https://blog.seesa.info/2023/05/seesa-harrison-travel-grants-2024.html?m=1]. 

 

Conference presenters are encouraged to submit their papers in manuscript form for consideration of publication to Balkanistica [https://modernlanguages.olemiss.edu/balkanistica/]. the refereed interdisciplinary journal of Balkan studies, which is supported by SEESA. There is a possibility that a special volume of the journal will be dedicated to papers from the conference. 

 

Questions about the conference may be directed to the conference organizer, Donald Dyer, at [mldyer@olemiss.edu]. 

SEESA Harrison Travel Grants 2024

 

 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

 

SEESA Harrison Travel Grants:  23rd BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON BALKAN AND SOUTH SLAVIC LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE & FOLKLORE

 

To support graduate student scholarship and international participation in the field of Southeast European Studies, the Southeast European Studies Association (SEESA) has established the SEESA Harrison Travel Grants to subsidize travel costs for the presentation of papers at international, national, regional, or state conferences. In 2024, the grants will be awarded to graduate and undergraduate students for attendance and presentation at the 23rd Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, which will take place at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, U.S.A., on May 2-4, 2024.

 

SEESA plans to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $750 each.

 

Applicants must be undergraduate students or graduate students at either the master's or doctoral level in any field of Southeast European Studies.

 

Students may only receive one SEESA Harrison Travel Grant over the course of their undergraduate or graduate studies.

 

Applicants should submit their conference paper abstract of no fewer than 500 words, proof that the abstract has been accepted, a C.V., a short bibliography of their paper and proof of student status as an email attachment to Bavjola Shatro [seesa.travel.grants@gmail.com]. Author name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information should be written below the title of the paper.

 

The applications will be evaluated by SEESA’s Committee for the Harrison Travel Grants. Written quality of the abstract as well as its content will be considered.

 

Questions about the conference may be directed to Bavjola Shatro.

Application Submission Deadline: January 31st, 2024.

Acceptance Notification Date: February 15, 2024.

SEESA TRAVEL GRANTS 2023 AWARDEES

 

 
We are pleased to announce that this year SEESA awarded three Travel Grants to support the work of three graduate students in the field of South East European Studies.
 
The awardees of SEESA TRAVEL GRANTS 2023 are:
 
Gina Scarpete Walters, Ph.D. student, Arizona State University, USA.
Maša Bešlin, Ph.D student, University of Maryland, USA.
Metodi Efremov, MA Student, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
 

Congratulations!

We wish to thank the applicants, the Grant Committee, SEESA Executive Board and all our colleagues and scholars who supported us by circulating the Call for Applications and by encouraging the students to apply for the SEESA Travel Grants 2023.

Scholarship opportunities for intensive language study through Arizona State University’s Critical Languages Institute

 

Scholarship opportunities for intensive language study through Arizona State University’s Critical Languages Institute. 

In the summer of 2023, the Critical Languages Institute (CLI) at Arizona State University will offer intensive training in 14 less-commonly-taught languages: Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Uzbek. 

Government agencies, businesses and humanitarian and development organizations with international missions, all value language skills and cross-cultural experience among employees.  Relevant language training also strengthens applications for Fulbright, Boren, and other fellowships for research or fieldwork support. 

Classes at ASU’s CLI meet for four hours a day, 5 days a week and students earn from 8 to 13 transferable credit hours. Experienced native-speaker faculty, small class sizes, and a focus on communication all play a role in fostering student success; OPI exit testing has demonstrated that participants make substantial gains in comprehension and fluency. 

Thanks to a range of financial awards including FLAS and Project GO scholarships, Title VIII fellowships, and private named scholarships, CLI makes intensive language study and study abroad accessible to participants of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. In 2022, over 70% of CLI students received some level of need-based or merit-based funding. 

For more details or to apply, please visit https://melikian.asu.edu/cli.  The site also includes information about upcoming presentations by CLI staff on the program.   

OR Scan the QR code to go directly to the Critical Languages Institute website.

851 S Cady Mall, Durham Hall #250 

PO Box 874202, Tempe, AZ 85287-4202 

Tel.: 480-965-4188 Fax: 480-965-1700 

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