CALL FOR PAPERS

Council for Bulgarian Studies Abroad, Bulgarian Academy of Science and Bulgarian Studies Association, USA invite your participation:

“Beyond the Borders”
The 10th. Joint Conference of Bulgarian and North American Scholars
Sofia, June 26-30, 2016
 
For more than forty years the tradition of Bulgarian-American academic dialogs has been carried on by the Council for Bulgarian Studies Abroad at the Bulgarian Academy of Science and the Bulgarian Studies Association. The first conference was in 1973 in Madison, WI, followed by conferences in Varna (1978), Boston (1982), Smoljan (1987), Pittsburgh (1994), Blagoevgrad (1999), Columbus, OH (2003), Varna (2008), and Eugene, OR (2012).

It is Sofia’s turn to host the 2016 Bulgarian-Northern American conference in the field of Bulgarian Studies. The topic of this conference, “Beyond the Borders”, invites various perceptions of “borders” (disciplinary, historical, cultural, national, etc.) and their interpretation as liminal spaces of distancing, interaction and transformation.

To participate, please submit an abstract (150-300 words) and a short CV by April 15, 2016 to Dr. Catherine Rudin carudin1@wsc.edu and/or Dr. Vessela Warner (warnerv@uab.edu, (for the U.S.), and Dr. Ana Luleva analuleva@iefem.bas.bg and/or Dr. Анисава Милтенова amiltenova@gmail.com (for Bulgaria)

Participation will be confirmed by April 30, 2016. All American participants will be provided with free room and board. The working language of the conference is English.

Conference committee:
Ana Luleva, Bulgarian Academy of Science
Anissava Miltenova, Bulgarian Academy of Science
Lora Taseva, Bulgarian Academy of Science
Catherine Rudin, Wayne State College
Vessela Warner, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Call for Papers

Association for the Study of

Eastern Christian History and Culture, Inc. (ASEC)

Call for Papers

Sixth Biennial Conference

Rhodes College

September 18-19, 2015

(pre-conference reception on the evening of September 17)

The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture is pleased to invite scholars of all disciplines working in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies to submit proposals for individual papers and panels for its biennial conference, to be held at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee and The Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel.  Scholars from the U.S. and around the world are welcome.  All participants must be members of ASEC.

Proposals for individual papers and panels should be submitted by email to Dr. Randall Poole, Acting Vice President of ASEC (rpoole@css.edu) no later than December 1, 2014.  All proposals should include:

--Participant name, affiliation, and email contact information                                  

 --For individual papers:  title and brief description (50-75 words)                             

--For panels: panel title + above information for each participant and discussant (if applicable).

Limited funding is available to provide graduate students with assistance for travel expenses.  General information regarding the hotel and meeting, and the conference registration form, will be available after October 1, 2014 on the following website of Rhodes College:

https://in.rhodes.edu/academic/modernlanguages/Pages/Russian-Studies.aspx

Upcoming conference: "Imagining Alternative Modernities"

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: MARCH 17
 
We are excited to announce the interdisciplinary conference, "Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia", which will take place at The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 9-11, 2014. The conference completes and complements a series of interdisciplinary activities in 2013-14, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the John E. Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures grant program. For more information on the seminar, please visit: sawyer.osu.edu.
 

Keynote Speakers:

Tomislav Longinović, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University
 

On the surface, the Balkans and South Asia might seem to have little in common. However, despite many specific differences, they share similar dilemmas of linguistic, religious, cultural, and ethno-national complexity, similar turbulent political developments associated with imperial, post-colonial, and Cold War legacies, and a similar diversity of responses to these historical and contemporary challenges. Both areas have seen a mixing of people through migratory settlement, conquest, contact, and trade. But both have also experienced periods of reaction to cultural hybridity: a radical unmixing of people through partition and population exchange. The impact of these upheavals is seen in the direct violence of war and devastation, but also through crises on the levels of language, religion, and other modes of culture and human creative activity. The unique yet similar issues within each region compel us
towards a comparative approach that will offer a transnational perspective on the intersection of language, religion, culture, and nationalism.

 
We thus invite proposals for paper presentations from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective within the humanities and social sciences addressing one or more of the following themes in the Balkans or in South Asia, or comparatively between the two regions:


1.Violence, Gender, and Human Rights

2.Nation, Religion, Language, and Secularism

3. Minorities, State, Language, and Citizenship

4. Postcolonial and Postsocialist Perspectives on Neoliberalism
 

Additionally, selected papers will be included in a collection of essays resulting from the conference.

Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Limited funding is available for student lodging.

Please send a 350-word abstract in PDF format and brief (one paragraph maximum) bio to sawyerseminar@osu.edu by Monday March 17, 2014 (11:59pm).

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 1, 2014 and the program will be announced by June 1, 2014. 

Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia

We are excited to announce the interdisciplinary conference, "Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia", which will take place at The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 9-11, 2014. The conference completes and complements a series of interdisciplinary activities in 2013-14, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the John E. Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures grant program. For more information on the seminar, please visit: sawyer.osu.edu.

On the surface, the Balkans and South Asia might seem to have little in common. However, despite many specific differences, they share similar dilemmas of linguistic, religious, cultural, and ethno-national complexity, similar turbulent political developments associated with imperial, post-colonial, and Cold War legacies, and a similar diversity of responses to these historical and contemporary challenges. Both areas have seen a mixing of people through migratory settlement, conquest, contact, and trade. But both have also experienced periods of reaction to cultural hybridity: a radical unmixing of people through partition and population exchange. The impact of these upheavals is seen in the direct violence of war and devastation, but also through crises on the levels of language, religion, and other modes of culture and human creative activity. The unique yet similar issues within each region compel us towards a comparative approach that will offer a transnational perspective on the intersection of language, religion, culture, and nationalism.

We thus invite proposals for paper presentations from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective within the humanities and social sciences addressing one or more of the following themes in the Balkans or in South Asia, or comparatively between the two regions: 

1. Violence, Gender, and Human Rights 

2. Nation, Religion, Language, and Secularism 

3. Minorities, State, Language, and Citizenship 

4. Postcolonial and Postsocialist Perspectives on Neoliberalism

Additionally, selected papers will be included in a collection of essays resulting from the conference.

Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Limited funding is available for student lodging.

Please send a 350-word abstract in PDF format and brief (one paragraph maximum) bio to sawyerseminar@osu.edu by Monday March 17, 2014 (11:59pm). Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 1, 2014 and the program will be announced by June 1, 2014. 

CALL FOR PAPERS: STATE VS INDIVIDUAL MORALITY IN POST-SOCIALISM

Deadline 10 February 2014

About STSS (www.tlu.ee/stss)

STSS is fast-growing open-access interdisciplinary journal for the study of transition societies. Created in 2009, it has been indexed by SCOPUS in 2012 and we are currently in Q3 (3rd quartile), ranking 320 out of 552 journals included in sociology and political science. Given that we are an independent journal created only four years ago we believe this is already a good result and we are confident we can improve our ranking quickly in the next few years. Please check our articles if you want to be convinced of our potential. Our primary focus is post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the former USSR, although we are open to contributions focusing on any other world region.

We are a bi-annual publication of the Institute of Political Science and Governance and the Institute of International and Social Studies of Tallinn University and it is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO, ProQuest, and the International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA). All our articles are available for free through the Central European Online Library and our website www.tlu.ee/stss that you are welcome to visit if you want to learn more about us. In addition to the targeted call given below, we welcome articles all year round.

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We are looking for 1-2 more papers on the topic: STATE VS INDIVIDUAL MORALITY IN POST-SOCIALISM.

Over the past decade we have witnessed a tendency to critically look at the way state morality, laws and rules are constructed. Following the appearance of Gibson-Graham's seminal work (1996), the term diverse economies has come to populate a growing number of scholarly works across a wide range of disciplines. As part of this scholarship alternative narratives to capitalism have been explored and neoliberalism has been criticised. Based on the Bourdieaun remark that individual and state moralities do not necessarily overlap, a number of empirical works (Polese 2008; Rasanayagam 2011; Wanner 2005) have shown the limits of the corrupt-non-corrupt distinction. This, in turn, has highlighted the potential conflict between what is legal (with a definition of legality provided by the state) and what is socially acceptable by the citizens
themselves (van Schendel & Abrahams 2005). This has led to the understanding that what a society, or a group of individuals, is ready to accept and justify is not necessarily what the state official narrative (based on laws and rules) would accept.

We welcome empirically-rich accounts, constructed on recent and/or ongoing research, that broadly deal with the topic suggested above.

The deadline for the 2014 Spring issue is 10 February 2014. However, potential contributors are welcome to contact us at an early stage to discuss an idea you might want to develop or have developed. Please visit the webpage www.tlu.ee/stss for further information on submission guidelines or contact stss@tlu.ee (also if you would like to discuss a proposal).


Suggested preliminary literature

Gibson-Graham, J.K. (1996). The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. Oxford UK and Cambridge USA: Blackwell Publishers.

Polese, A. (2008). "If I Receive it, it is a Gift; if I Demand it, then it is a Bribe" on the Local Meaning of Economic Transactions in Post-soviet Ukraine. Anthropology in Action, 15(3), 47-60.

Rasanayagam, J. (2011). Informal Economy in an Informal State in Surviving Post-Socialism. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy,15(11/12), 681-696.

van Schendel, W. & I. Abraham (Eds.) (2005). Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Wanner, C. (2005). Money, Morality and New Forms of Exchange in Postsocialist Ukraine. Ethnos 70(4), 515-537.

19th Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore

The 19th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore will take place at The University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, USA, April 25-27, 2014.

Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2013

Acceptance Notification Date:15 January 2014

The conference organizers are now accepting proposals for papers that treat some aspect of Balkan and/or South Slavic linguistics, literature, or folklore, including culture. Abstracts should be maximum one page, including examples and bibliography, 12-point font, at least 1" margins, and should not contain name(s) or affiliations(s) of the author(s).

Abstracts should be submitted as an email attachment in PDF format to Meredith Clason. The paper title, author name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information should be given in the body of the email. The abstract itself should have only the title.

Questions about the conference may be directed to Meredith Clason.

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Dropping out of Socialism: Alternative Cultures in the Soviet Bloc"

The Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are calling for proposals for articles relating to subcultures, drop-outs and the underground in late socialist societies. Any group and any time period between 1956 and 1991 will be considered, University of Bristol, UK; Workshop TBA Spring 2014 (Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2013)

Much emphasis has been placed in recent years on questions of conformity and everyday ordinariness in socialist societies. This project aims to look at increasingly forgotten elements in these societies: those who did not conform did not live the ordinary life, yet were also part of the late socialist every day.

Ranging from teddy boys, hippies and punks to non-conformist artists, Buddhists, yoga teachers or lesbian and gay communities, the list of 'drop-outs' is long and varied, yet in danger of being buried by histories that left better documentation and more archival traces. We intend to write these individuals and groups into the newly emerging history of late socialism and examine both their internal functioning as well as their complex relationship with mainstream society and socialist authorities. Was it possible to drop out from socialist society? How far could one distance oneself from the realities of late socialist life? What does the existence of alternative cultures and their daily practices say about the last three decades of socialism in Europe? Did they hasten its decline - or were they indeed a factor in its longevity?

We are calling for proposals for articles relating to subcultures, drop-outs and the underground in late socialist societies. Any group and any time period between 1956 and 1991 will be considered.

The workshop and subsequent publication of articles in a special journal issue is part of the AHRC sponsored project 'Dropping out of Socialism', which examines a variety of drop-out cultures in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We are planning to hold a workshop in Bristol, UK in the spring of 2014, when authors present their articles for discussion. A final manuscript will be expected by the summer of 2014.

Please send a short proposal (max 500 words) and a CV to:

josie.mclellan@bristol.ac.uk by 1 June 2013.

For further questions please contact: 

juliane.furst@bristol.ac.uk

Joint Bulgarian-North American conference: abstract deadline Sept. 15

This is a final reminder that the deadline for receipt of abstracts for the Ninth Joint Meeting of North American and Bulgarian Scholars (BSA-BAN conference), which will be held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA, May 31-June 2, 2012, is **SEPTEMBER 15, 2011**. The deadline will not be extended.

Both members in good standing of the Bulgarian Studies Association (BSA), and any other scholars who join the BSA at this time, are invited to submit individual abstracts for consideration for the conference, which is held in the US every 8 years. Individuals wishing to submit an abstract who are not BSA members at this time may register for membership at http://foreninger.uio.no/bsa/applicat.htm before submitting an abstract. Membership dues may be paid by PayPal at the website.

Papers may be in any discipline and on any topic related to Bulgaria. The abstract must not be longer than 300 words, and must not include the applicant's name or otherwise clearly identify the applicant. The abstract is to be submitted in PDF form, attached to a cover e-mail giving the abstract title and the applicant's full name and email address. The e-mail should be sent to the program committee
c/o vakarel@uoregon.edu. Applicants will receive an acknowledgement of their submissions once they are received and will be informed of the decisions of their abstracts by early November.

A refereed web-published conference proceedings volume is being planned.

Conference activities will include a welcoming reception and a farewell dinner, both with music, and an optional excursion on June 2 to Crater Lake or the Pacific Coast. The amount of conference registration fee will be announced at the BSA website
(http://logos.uoregon.edu/bulgarian/home/index.php) in early October, when the abstract decisions are announced.

For further information on the conference, which will be updated as it comes in, see http://logos.uoregon.edu/bulgarian/home/index.php. Please address any questions to BSA president Cynthia Vakareliyska at vakarel@uoregon.edu.

International Journal of Balkan Policy Research

The new International Journal of Balkan Policy Research (IJBPR) is a double-blinded peer-reviewed Journal published by Universum University College in Kosovo with the financial support of the US Embassy in Kosovo and the US State Department.

It is edited by an International Editorial Board (please see below) which consists of prominent Academics, Scholars and Practitioners from the field and led by the Editor-in-Chief Dr. Adrian Treacher from the University of Sussex in the UK.

IJBPR is a gateway to key policy research on the Western Balkan region and individual countries. Of interest to policy-makers, scholars, and readers of Western Balkan affairs, it aims to address theoretically-informed and empirically-tested economic, legal and political issues which directly shape policy and attitudes in the region.

The review process ensures that the academic quality of the published articles is approved by experienced scholars/practitioners from the relevant field.

Call for Papers

With the purpose to promote comprehensive research and policy options in the Western Balkans, IJBPR invites scholars, researchers, public policy practitioners, and graduate students at advanced stages of research, to submit papers to be published in the first issue of the Journal in November 2011 or in subsequent issues.

Deadline for submission of Abstract Proposals: July 15, 2011
Deadline for submission of Full Paper: September 15, 2011
All contributions together with a short biography of the author(s) should be sent by email to editor@balkanpolicyjournal.net.

Guidelines for Authors

Articles submitted to IJBPR should be double-spaced, be in Times New Roman 12-point font and have a margin of 1.5 inch on both sides. The numbering of pages, tables and figures is required. Tables and figures, besides being set in the text, should be provided separately to the Editor. Every table and/or figure should have a title or header, as to show its function within the article's context.

Articles should also have a title as well as the author(s) name(s), affiliation(s) and highest academic qualification where applicable. In addition, an abstract of up to 200 words should be submitted. The name(s) and other details of the author(s) will be deleted by the Editor, prior to the paper being sent for peer-review.

Referencing system: the IJBPR recommends and encourages that its authors use the University of Chicago Style B system of referencing. For more information on citations click here.

Editorial Team
Editor in-chief:
Dr. Adrian Treacher, University of Sussex, UK

Managing Editor:
Alejtin Berisha, Universum University College, Kosovo

Editorial Board:
Prof. Franz-Lothar Altmann, State University of Bucharest, Romania

Prof. Edna Andrews, Duke University, USA

Prof. Margaret Beissinger, Princeton University, USA

Kujtese Bejtullahu-Michalopoulos, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland

Prof. Horst Brezinski, University of Freiberg, Germany

Prof. David Chandler, University of Westminster, UK

Prof. Lenard Cohen, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Prof. Rory Conces, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Prof. László Csaba, CEU and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Dr. Anna Di Lellio, New School University, USA

Prof. Donald Dyers, University of Mississippi, USA

Dr. Arolda Elbasani, Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung, Germany

Dr. Adam Fagan, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Prof. Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics, UK

Prof. Danica Fink Hafner, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Prof. Tom Gallagher, formerly with the University of Bradford, UK

Dr. Josip Glaurdic, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Eric Gordy, SSEES UCL, UK

Dr. Bersant Hobdari, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Prof. Leslie Holmes, University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Soeren Keil, University of Kent, UK

Dr. James Korovilas, University of the West of England, UK

Prof. Satoshi Mizobata, University of Kyoto, Japan

Dr. Klejda Mulaj, University of Exeter, UK

Prof. Neill Nugent, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and College of Europe, Belgium

Dr. Dimitris Papadimitriou, University of Manchester, UK

Prof. Slavo Radosevic, SSEES, UCL, UK

Prof. Xavier Richet, University Sorbonne Nouvelle, France & CEFC-CNRS, Hong Kong

Prof. Marcello Signorelli, University of Perugia, Italy

Call for papers: Studies of Transition States and Societies

Posted on behalf of Raivo Vetik, Editor-in-Chief

Studies of Transition States and Societies (STSS) a biannual peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal issued since Fall 2009, available at www.tlu.ee/stss

Type of publication: print and online

Publication date: June, 2011

Submission deadline: E-mail the articles to stss@tlu.ee by 31st of March, 2011. Articles arriving later will be considered for the Fall issue.

Published/Edited by: Tallinn University Institute of Political Science and Governance and the Institute of International and Social Studies, Estonia

STSS welcomes articles, research notes, book reviews and review articles in all subfields of sociology and political science, to promote dialogue and exchange between scholars in these fields. The journal's substantive focus is on the transitional states and societies, particularly on the societal and political changes in postcommunist countries.

The journal only publishes articles written in English. The expected length of the manuscripts is from 2 000 to10 000 words depending on the type of paper. All documents must be accompanied by a title page stating key facts about the author(s). Please see Guidelines for the Authors available at www.tlu.ee/stss for more detailed information on submission.

We also welcome expressions of interest to become a reviewer for the journal. Please send your CV with publications to stss@tlu.ee.

Call for papers: XI Balkan conference “Balkan Spectrum: from Light to Colour”, Moscow, 22-24 March 2010

Posted on behalf of Irina Sedakova, Head of BALCANICA and Maksim Makartsev, Secretary of BALCANICA

We cordially invite you to participate in the Balkan conference which will take place on 22-24 March 2011 at the Center for Linguistic and Cultural Studies BALCANICA of the Institute for Slavic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow).

The notions of LIGHT and COLOUR (and related notions and actions such as FIRE, RAINBOW, TO GLISTEN, etc.) and their values in the Balkan Weltanschauung will be investigated on the basis of linguistic, folklore, mythic-ritual and literary data, from ancient till modern times with a special attention to linguistic and cultural contacts.

Another group of problems to be discussed deals with the topical questions of the Balkan Linguistic League (phonetics, grammar, linguistic geography, etc.). Short versions of the papers will be published before the conference.


Conference languages: Russian (preferably) and English

Deadlines: Submission of a title proposal 15 October 2010.
Notification of the accepted papers 15 November 2010.
Submission of short versions of papers (up to 10 000 characters including spaces and references) 15 January 2011.

Due to lack of funding the Organizing Committee advises you to address for financial support your home institutions.

Email: balcanica2008@yandex.ru

Call for Papers: Continuity and Change in Southeastern Europe

Posted on behalf of
Ilyana Sawka
Program Coordinator
Kokkalis Program on Southeastern & East-Central Europe

A Harvard University conference – February 4, 2011

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeastern Europe Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, invite scholars, researchers, university faculty, public policy practitioners, and graduate students at advanced stages of research to submit 500-word proposals for papers to be delivered at the symposium “Continuity and Change in Southeastern Europe” on February 4, 2011, at Harvard University.



Deadline for submission: November 15, 2010. Proposals should be submitted along with a recent CV to Andrew Hall at Andrew_Hall@hks.harvard.edu. Small stipends for travel and accommodation will be available for selected participants.



Proposals must fall into one of the below thematic units:



I) Institutional Legacies: Tracing Historical Continuities

Over the last century and a half, Southeastern Europe has been marked by a large number of critical junctures: from the collapse of multinational empires to the long period of wars form 1912-18 and World War II to the emergence of Communist states and their collapse. These monumental changes often disguise lines of continuity, especially in regard to institutions. This panel will bring together papers that help understand how and why institutional continuities and legacies persist over time. Avoiding historical determinism, the papers will shed light on particular paths institutional developments have taken and how this helps understand Southeastern Europe today. From ethnographic micro-cases to larger comparative studies, papers representing a variety of disciplines and approaches are welcome.

Chair: Dr. Florian Bieber, Editor-in-Chief, Nationalities Papers



II) Domestic-International Relationships in Political Reform in Southeastern Europe

What do case studies of political reform in post-socialist Southeastern Europe tell us about the conditions under which international actors can work together with domestic actors to develop institutions that are responsive to and valued by ordinary citizens? How have domestic actors in Southeastern Europe been able to incorporate domestic values and traditions into new institutions in the face of pressure to adopt Western models? Under what conditions are international actors who promote reform sensitive to local knowledge? This panel seeks to learn from case studies of reform that are considered unsuccessful, as well as those considered successful. Papers will increase our understanding of the processes and outcomes of political reform viewed as valuable by Southeastern European peoples through investigations of case studies that cover various Southeast European countries and issue areas.

Chair: Dr. Paula Pickering, Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of William and Mary



III) Gender, Nation and Globalization

The last two decades have been a time of tremendous upheaval for the nations of Southeastern Europe, which have variously weathered the storms of sudden economic change, political disintegration, social instability, increasing crime and corruption, massive out migration, violence, and war. Most recently, the region has been wracked with the economic turmoil of the global financial crisis and individual men and women are facing the ever-growing hardships of recession and IMF-imposed structural adjustment. Throughout these twenty years, idealized notions of masculinity and femininity have shifted and been reimagined to take account of the local realities in an era of globalization. In some cases, traditional gender norms and expectations have been subverted and/or overthrown altogether, with both men and women gaining from an increase of possible gender subjectivities. In other cases, traditional roles for what makes a “real man” or a “good woman” have reasserted themselves with newfound force, finding allies in new or old religious movements and nationalist political rhetorics. This panel aims to explore the continuities and changes in gender norms and gender politics in Southeastern Europe, and welcomes all papers that explore these dynamics with an eye to seeing the complex interactions between local and global forces.

Chair: Dr. Kristen Ghodsee, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College



Areas of focus: Albania § Bosnia-Herzegovina § Bulgaria § Croatia § Cyprus § F.Y.R. of Macedonia § Greece § Hungary § Kosovo § Moldova § Montenegro § Romania § Serbia § Slovenia § Turkey

For more information on the Kokkalis Program, visit:
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis

National Bodies in Eastern Europe

Conference to be held 28-29 August 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand

Several scholars have explained the rise of nationalism as the consequence of "modernization," variously understood as some combination of secularization, industrialization, rising literacy, increasing technological sophistication, and similar factors. National ideologies transformed political life, as they seized European imaginations, but also affected how people viewed each other in everyday circumstances. The experience of life in Eastern Europe, a region where the impact of nationalism proved particularly explosive, has included the experience of being stereotyped and classified in terms of nationalist fantasy.

We wish to explore the spread of nationalized thinking as it relates to the body. How did people in central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans classify each other in terms of national concepts? What characteristics supposedly distinguished the Czech from the German, the Jew from the Ukrainian, the Romanian from the Hungarian, the Turk from the Greek, and so forth? How did these fantasies of the national body emerge, and how did they affect human interactions? Other topics of
possible interest include: national bodily practices, literary concepts of national bodies, national sexuality or sexualities, national clothing or accoutrements, sporting nationalism, or eugenics.

We are initially soliciting papers for a conference hosted by the Antipodean East European Study Group at Victoria University and the Russian Programme at the University of Canterbury. The conference will take place on the weekend of 28-29 August in Wellington, New Zealand. We welcome scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, literary studies, film studies, and other related disciplines. The conference organizers then intend to publish selected papers either as an edited volume, or a special edition of a relevant journal. Final word lengths are flexible at this stage, but we suggest contributors aim for 6,000 words.

Interested parties contact Alexander Maxwell at alexander.maxwell@vuw.ac.nz

Antipodean East European Study Group (Victoria University) Russian Programme (University of Canterbury)

LREC 2010 Workshop on Exploitation of Multilingual Resources and Tools for Central and (South-) Eastern European Languages

23rd May 2010, La Valleta, Malta
organised in conjunction with the Language Resources and Evaluation 2010 Conference
(17-23 May 2010, La Valleta, Malta)
http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/LrecWorkshop2010

Call for Papers

Papers submission deadline: 7th March 2010

The organizers are looking for submission of original, unpublished work related to Central and (South-)Eastern European languages in the following areas:

- Automatic identification of comparable or parallel corpora
- Extraction of linguistic knowledge from comparable or parallel corpora
- Improvement of statistical methods with knowledge extracted from comparable or parallel corpora
- Domain adaptation of statistical methods in multilingual context
- Multilingual systems involving Central, Eastern and Southern European languages
- Production, management and interfacing of knowledge bases including Central, Eastern and Southern European languages
- Machine translation for Central, Eastern and Southern European languages

A special section of the workshop will be dedicated to machine translation issues and a special call for participation will be issued at the beginning of January.

For further details and contact information go to
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-4410.html

Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe

Will take place on 18 June 2010 at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Organisers:

Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths
Centre for South East European Studies, SSEES, UCL
LSEE-Research on South East Europe, European Institute, LSE


Call for Papers

We invite submissions for a PhD symposium on modern and contemporary South East Europe. A main objective of the symposium is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between young scholars currently undertaking research on the region. It is also intended to help graduate-level research students to overcome the academic isolation associated with PhD research, to 'try' their ideas and findings on wider audiences, and to establish new collaborative links across disciplines. Researchers will also be able to 'engage' with a wider academic community, including academic members of staff at the three institutions, and also a number of other distinguished scholars who will be involved with the symposium.

We welcome contributions from research students focusing on the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Moldova, Romania and Turkey and working in the following disciplines:

* Anthropology and Sociology
* Economics and Political Economy
* Politics and International Relations
* Modern and Contemporary History (including Economic History)
* Law
* Social Policy
* Cultural Studies

Abstracts of 1000 words maximum must be submitted via the 'paper proposal' form. Abstracts should indicate the academic significance of the topic, relevance of conceptual literature, and analytical structure. It should also include six key words. In addition to the 'paper proposal' form, applicants will be expected to provide a short statement of support from their supervisor (no more than 300 words). This should be sent by the supervisor directly to the same e-mail address. The deadline for the submission of the 'paper proposal' forms is Friday, 12 February 2010. The 'paper proposal' form can be downloaded from: www.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/Research/LSEE/PhDSymposium/Home.aspx

Completed submissions can be made by email only to:
Euroinst.Lsee.Symposium@lse.ac.uk. Successful applicants will be notified by 26 February 2010 and will be requested to submit their full paper by 4 June 2010.

Participants will be expected to pay for their own travel, accommodation and subsistence. It is possible that a limited number of travel grants will be made available to contributors who are both registered and normally based at universities in the region. However, participants applying from the region must not rely on this. Support, if available, will be limited. There will also be a registration fee of £15 for all participants, payable upon registration. General participants are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact:

Ivan Kovanovic
Administrator, LSEE-Research on South East Europe
Email: Euroinst.Lsee.Symposium@lse.ac.uk

The Ottoman Past in the Balkan Present: Music and Mediation

Finnish Institute at Athens & Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, University of Athens will organize a conference in Athens, from 30 September to 2 October 2010.

Through the ages, the Balkans has experienced various political, cultural and social phases. The peninsula has been conceptualised in a number of different, often competing and contrasted, ways (Byzantine, Ottoman, Balkan, the East, Eastern Europe) in academic and other discourses. However, in one way or another, the long period of Ottoman rule constitutes an integral aspect of all those perceptions.

In the aforementioned processes, music has often played a central role, either in a direct or an indirect way: music and its representations mediate national ideologies and various viewpoints, such as Orientalism, Balkanism and Occidentalism, which have a particular relationship with history in the
Balkans. Simultaneously, music is mediated through space and time, through various means of documentation and transmission (orality, visual arts, photographs, written text, scores and recordings).

Against this background and in the light of the current political expansion of the EU in the Balkan area, the exploration of issues related to cultural identity and relations to the Ottoman past gains more prominence and requires a critical, interdisciplinary dialogue. In particular, the changes that the EU expansion will bring about to the existing structures of Balkan societies, cultures and cultural policies from a musical point of view remain to be addressed.

This conference welcomes innovative interdisciplinary (e.g. ethnomusicology, history, anthropology, cultural studies) papers addressing the following topics:

- How are Orientalism, Balkanism and Occidentalism expressed and constituted through music and its representations in the Balkans
- Nationalism mediated through music and *vice versa*
- Music, propaganda and the media: radio, television, the press and the Internet
- Beyond music: analysing Balkan soundscapes as products of the past

Abstracts (max 300 words) of papers and poster presentations should be submitted by February 15, 2010 to the following email address:

The languages of the conference are English and Greek. Please specify possible AV needs. All abstracts will be reviewed and authors will be notified about the results by April 14, 2010.

*Keynote Speakers*

Prof. Derek B. Scott, University of Leeds
Title: *Imagining the Balkans, Imagining Europe*

Prof. Cem Behar, Bogazici University
Title: TBA

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*Conference Committee *

Dr. Martti Leiwo, *Director of the Finnish Institute at Athens *

Prof. Athanasios Markopoulos, *Head of the Department of Turkish and Modern
Asian Studies, University of Athens *

Prof. Vesa Kurkela, *Sibelius Academy & University of Tampere *

Dr. Risto Pekka Pennanen, *Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies*

Prof. Aimilia Themopoulou, *Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies*,
*University of Athens*

Dr. Panagiotis Poulos, *Department of Turkish and Modern Asian
Studies*, *University of Athens*

Dr. Aspasia Theodosiou, *Department of Popular and Traditional Music, TEI of
Epirus & Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester*

The Finnish Institute at Athens, http://www.finninstitute.gr/

Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, University of Athens,
http://www.turkmas.uoa.gr/


For further information, please visit the conference website:
http://www.turkmas.uoa.gr/conf2010=

Journées Balkaniques / Balkan Days

AIESEE will organize a Balkan Days session at the next, 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences (CISH) which will take place in Amsterdam from 22 to 28 August 2010 . The topic is "Southeastern Europe and Asia" and includes the relationships between the Balkan and Carpatho-Danubian regions with the different parts of the Asian continent (Asia Minor, the Near East, India, the Chinese-Japanese and the Siberian areas) from prehistory to present day. Please consider participating in the Balkan Days at CISH if you plan to attend the congress. Titles of communications should be announced no later than 31 January 2010 to the General Secretariat of AIESEE at aiesee@rdslink.ro and office@aiesee.org. Because of the current financial difficulties AIESEE will not be able to finance participation in the Balkan Days.

The Balkans in an European Context: New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe

Conference date: 11-Apr-2010 - 15-Apr-2010
Conference venue: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2009
Organizing Institution: Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Organized jointly by Languages in a Network of European Excellence (LINEE) and the integrated project DYLAN of the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme for Research and Development. With an increased awareness of international globalisation and European integration, the existing mainstream conceptualizations of multilingualism and linguistic diversity have been increasingly questioned, in particular within the humanities and the social sciences. In a EU context of socio-political transition it is therefore a challenge to take stock of the existing disciplinary knowledge, and to reassess it against the background of the ongoing integration process which goes along with the transformation of traditional linguistic and cultural patterns. Read more at http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-3290.html.

Russia through the Eyes of East Europeans: The Birth and Death of Stereotypes

Call for papers

This interdisciplinary conference, organized by the International Higher Education Academy of Sciences (Russia), the Nevsky Institute of Language and Culture (Russia) and Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski in Olsztyn (Poland), will take place in St. Petersburg on 25-26 August 2010. Working languages of the conference are Russian and English.

If you wish to participate, send by 25 September 2009 the following information: first and last name, affiliation, position, degree, phone number, email address, country of residence, mailing address with postal code and title of the proposed paper to stereotipy2010@mail.ru. Contact person: Шайдуров Владимир Николаевич, phone (7-812) 230-38-08.

17th Balkan & South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 23, 2009

The 17th Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore Conference will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA, April 15-18, 2010. The conference will feature the Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture in South Slavic Linguistics on Friday April 16. This year's Naylor Lecturer will be Eric P. Hamp, Professor Emeritus from the University of Chicago. The conference will also be held concurrently with the Midwest Slavic Conference.

The conference organizers are now accepting proposals for papers that treat some aspect of Balkan and/or South Slavic linguistics, folklore, film studies, literature or culture. Abstracts should be maximum one page, including examples and bibliography if needed (12-point font, at least 1" margins). Abstracts should be anonymous.Abstracts should be submitted, in PDF format, by email to Andrea Sims. The paper title, author name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information should be given in the body of the email.

More information is available at http://bss17.osu.edu
Questions about the conference may be directed to Brian Joseph (joseph.1@osu.edu) or Andrea Sims (sims.120@osu.edu).