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

Balkan and South Slavic Conference Report

The 19th Biennial Balkan and South Slavic Conference in Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore was held at the University of Chicago April 25-27 2014.  The meeting was a rousing success.  Some 80 participants were in attendance, from a dozen countries (including China and Japan as well as European and North American universities).  As usual, the presentations addressed a wide variety of issues in many Balkan and South Slavic languages and cultures: the list this year included Albanian, Aromanian, Arvanitic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Moldovan, Montenegrin, Rom, Serbian, and Slovenian, plus a large number of comparative or cross-Balkan papers dealing with more than one language.  The full program is available at the conference web site.

The conference was topped off by a buffet dinner and dance party, with local Macedonian musicians, at which organizer Victor Friedman was honored by a series of toasts, each in a different language.

Upcoming Conference in Balkan Studies at the University of Sofia

The Faculty of Slavic Studies at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its program in Balkan Studies with a conference entitled Balkan Languages, Literatures and Cultures: Divergence and Convergence.  The conference will take place on 30-31 May 2014. The preliminary program features 119 papers in English, French, German, Russian and Bulgarian by scholars from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey and the US. The papers address issues within the broad areas of linguistic structure and the lexicon, codification of the standard languages, language contact, etymology, onomastics and phraseology, ethnolinguistics, comparative literary studies, literature and society, ethnology, cultural history, identity and religion, political studies, the fine arts, music and folk dance.

Good luck to the organizers of this conference and to the program in Balkan Studies at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia.

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. 

Save the dates!

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

More information will be available soon.

Questions may be directed to Meredith Clason, Associate Director, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CEERES) mclason [at] chicago.edu

Moscow, Twelfth Balkan Readings

The twelfth Балканские чтения [Balkan Readings] conference, which took place in Moscow on 26-27 March 2013, had as its unifying theme the Balkan picture of the world from the perspective of the five human senses. Twenty-eight papers were presented, reporting on interdisciplinary studies in the areas of religion, mythology, magic, ritual, literature, folk poetry, folk music, drama, artistic performance, cuisine etc with a focus on sensory perception, cognition and language. A number of papers discussed linguistic evidence in support of the underlying unity of the five senses (synaesthesia). Papers differed in perspective: some were theoretically inclined or took a broad comparative perspective (S. M. Tolstaia, N. N. Kazanskii,  T. A. Mikhailova, U. Dukova & P. Assenova, T. V. Tsiv’ian, D. Burkhart), others had elements of comparison (D. S. Ermolin, A. A. Novik, I. A. Sedakova, M. M. Makartsev) or dealt with aspects of a specific tradition - Ancient Greek (M. Evzlin, T. F. Teperik, L. I. Akimova, Ia. L. Zabudskaia), Modern Greek (O. V. Chekha, F. A. Eloeva, A. A. Novokhatko, K. A. Klimova,  A. V. Tunin & V. A. Panov), Latin (A. V. Grosheva), Romanian (A. A. Romanova, I. Stahl, N. G. Golant), Albanian (A.V. Zhugra, M. V. Domosiletskaia), Bulgarian (G. V. Grigorov), Serbian (N. V. Zlydneva) and Slovene (M. Mencej).

The conference proceedings have appeared in: Макарцев, М. М., И. А. Седакова, Т. В. Цивьян (eds.) Балканская картина мира sub specie пяти человеческих чувств. Москва: Институт славяноведения РАН, Центр лингвокультурных исследований «Balcanica», Университет Дмитрия Пожарского, 2013, 184 с. (Балканские чтения 12. Тезисы и материалы) ISBN 978-5-7576-0270-7.

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

Balkan Spectrum: From Light to Colour

Conference organized by the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

22-24 March 2011
Moscow, Institute of Slavic Studies, 32A Leninskii Prospekt, Room 901

Tuesday, 22 March

Morning Session 11:00
Chair: I. A. Sedakova

B. Joseph (Ohio State University). Sound symbolism and light in the Balkans
V. Friedman (University of Chicago). Balkanisms of Color: Black, and White and Red All Over
П. Асенова (София), У. Дукова (Frankfurt am Main). Homo balcanicus в мрак и на светлина
Е.Црвенковска (Скопjе). Светлината во църковнословенската химнографиja на Балканот.

Afternoon Session 14:00
Chair: T. M. Nikolaeva

Н.Н. Казанский (Санкт-Петербург). Светозарность цвета в Древней Греции и в Риме
Л.И. Акимова (Москва). Раннегреческий хроматизм в его отношении к пространству – времени.
А.А. Новохатько (Freiburg). Тьма и мрак в древней аттической комедии.
Т.Ф. Теперик (Москва). Pallentia ora (комментарий к X, 822, Verg. Aen.) или к вопросу о семантике цвета в "Энеиде" Вергилия.

Evening Session 16:30
Chair: N. V. Zlydneva

Л. Попович (Белград). Блеск как прототип цвета в языковой картине мира славян (на примере анализа цветообозначений в сербском, русском и украинском фольклоре)
M.Mencej (Ljubljana). Witches in the shape of lights and fires
Л.Н. Виноградова (Москва). Светоносные ночные духи в мифологии западных и южных славян.

Wednesday, 23 March

Morning Session 11:00
Chair: В.Фридман

R. Alexander (University of California at Berkeley). Bulgarian Dialects and the Balkan Model of the World.
E. Adamou (Paris). A temporal set of uses of the deictic suffixes in a Pomak variety of Thrace, Greece.
Е. Бужаровска (Скопье). Полисемия сака в балканском контексте.
А.Ю. Русаков (Санкт-Петербург). Некоторые изоглоссы на диалектной карте Албании: контактное влияние или внутреннее развитие?
А.Н. Соболев (Санкт-Петербург). Балканская лингвокультурная антропогеография и принцип множественности.

Afternoon Session 14:30
Chair: T. V. Tsiv'jan

Ф.А. Елоева (Санкт-Петербург). Цветная память Кавафиса.
И.А. Седакова (Москва). Свет и цвет в романе Петре М.Андреевского «Пырей».
М.М. Макарцев (Москва). Цвет и свет в балканославянских и албанских балладах «Приход мертвого брата».
[Сообщение] Д.С. Ермолин (Санкт-Петербург). Цвет на границе миров: семантика цвета в похоронной обрядности албанцев Приазовья.

Evening Session 17:00
Chair: L. Radenkovic

Н.В. Злыднева (Москва). Архаическая триада черное-белое-красное в балканской модели мира.
Л.Раденкович (Белград). Красный цвет в погребальной обрядности и народной демонологии славян.
Z. Šmitek (Ljubljana). Symbolism and classification of colours in the Slovenian folk culture

Thirsday, 24 March

Morning Session 11:00
Chair: С.М.Толстая

А.А. Новик (Санкт-Петербург). Краситель — краска — цвет — свет в одежде и традиции албанцев.
Н.Г. Голант (Санкт-Петербург). Цветовая символика в румынских традиционных оберегах.
А.А. Плотникова (Москва). Цветовой спектр при определении судьбы ребенка у южных славян: «рубашечка» новорожденного.
[Сообщение] А.П..Якимова (Москва). Цвет одежды как маркер жизненного пути болгарина.

Afternoon Session 14:00
Chair: P. Asenova

А.Б. Ипполитова (Москва). Цвет в слове и цвет в изображении: соотношение спектров в тексте и миниатюрах Лицевого травника конца XVIII в.
В.Г. Колосова (Санкт-Петербург). «Огненные» травы в славянской народной ботанике.
О.В. Белова (Москва). Цветовой код народной культуры в словаре «Славянские древности».
[Сообщение] А.Е. Тунин (Москва). Цветовой код в новогреческих загадках.
Т.В. Цивьян (Москва). Балканский свет и цвет в мозаиках Газанфера Байрама.

Balkanisms Today

This conference organized by the International Committee of Slavicists (Commission for Balkan Linguistics), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna will take place in Vienna on 3-5 September 2010. For more details click here.

Цветница, Diela e lulevet, Duminica florilor, Βαγιοτσυριατσή…

Posted on behalf of Irina Sedakova, Head of BALCANICA

A roundtable devoted to the vegetative code of Palm Sunday in the Balkan, Baltic and Slavic regions took place on 30 March 2010 at the Center for Linguistic and Cultural Studies BALCANICA of the Institute for Slavic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). Sixteen scholars from the Institute for Slavic Studies, the Moscow State University, the Russian State University for the Humanities, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Kunstkamera (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg) and the Folk Culture Center in Vilnius took part in the roundtable. Participants were distributed ahead of time questionnaires to focus the discussion on the most important linguistic and cultural issues such as the origins of the Palm Sunday terminology, the plant specimens associated with the festival, the correlation between church and laic rituals and the evolution of ideas about the plants consecrated on Palm Sunday in the Slavic, Baltic and Balkan traditions. The proceedings of the roundtable will be published in the journal Традиционная культура ‘Traditional Culture’.

Program of the roundtable:

И.А. Седакова. Вступительное слово
Л.И. Акимова. Погребальный убор царицы Шубад в контексте "Вербного воскресенья"
Е.В. Пчелов. "Чудо-дерево" Московского царства: верба в церемонии шествия на осляти в XVI - XVII вв.
О.В. Трефилова. Оппозиция молодой-старый resp. новый-ветхий в древнейших славянских переводах "Слов" на Вербное воскресенье
Т.В. Цивьян. Вербная тема в русской литературе ХХ в.: мерцающая мифология
Р. Балкуте, М.В. Завьялова. Традиции Вербного воскресенья в Литве: визуально-антропологический материал и комментарии
В.В. Усачева. Вербноe воскресеньe в польской народной традиции
М.М. Валенцова. Вербное воскресенье в чешской и словацкой традиции
В.Л. Кляус. Верба как символ "русского" дома в Трехречье (КНР)
Н.В. Злыднева. Процветшая плоть в балканской изобразительной традиции: к проблеме контаминации кодов
Н.Г. Голант. Duminica Floriilor и мифологические представления румын, связанные с растениями
М.М. Макарцев. Растительный код в «Балладе о мертвом брате»
А.А. Плотникова. Вербная (Лазарева) суббота: особенности девических обходов у балканских славян
С.А. Сиднева. "Statue vegetali" в калабрийских обрядах Вербного воскресенья
К.А. Климова. Τα βάγια νικητήτρια (пальма, лавр и другие растения) в греческой народной традиции
О.А. Кифишина. К вопросу об иве в древнегреческом ритуале и мифе

CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE WITHIN THE BALKAN KEG

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Balkan Studies in Torun (Poland), the Institute of Slavic Philology of the University of Torun organizes an international conference entitled CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE WITHIN THE BALKAN KEG: LANGUAGE – CULTURE – LITERATURE - HISTORY. The conference will take place in Torun on 2-4 December 2010 and will focus on theoretical and practical aspects of Balkan studies in the areas of convergence/divergence in language/literature/art, new approaches to Balkan studies, dialectology, new/unknown Balkan features, small ethnolects, Balkan conditioned problems of national identity, the image of Europe in the Balkans, translation from/into Balkan languages, teaching of Balkan languages, lexicology and lexicography of Balkan languages.

Conference languages are English and all Balkan languages. However speakers will be asked to deliver in advance English translation of the paper which will be distributed to all participants.

Conference fee: 400zł/100Euro

(Fee covers: conference materials, 2 nights in a hotel, reception)

Organization committee:

Viara Maldjieva
Irena Sawicka
Adam Kola
Anna Korytowska

Mailing address:


balkanica10@gmail.com

or:

Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika
Ul. Podmurna 9/11
87-100 Toruń, PL


Participants are asked to submit by 30 May 2010 the title of the paper, key words and a short summary of the paper (in any of the conference languages). Participants will be notified whether the paper has been accepted by 30 June 2010.

Southeast European Studies at the 2009 AAASS Convention

A number of panels and roundtables at the 41st National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), which will take place on November 12–15, 2009 at the Marriott Copley Place (Boston, MA), address issues of interest to Southeast Europeanists.

Thursday, November 12
12:00 P.M. -1:45 P.M.

• Panel 1-08 Nationalism, Security and the Past in Central Europe and the Balkans (Location: Dartmouth). Participants: Dragana Dulic (U of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro), Ivan Zverzhanovski, Ausra Park (Simmons College)
• Roundtable 1-22 Macedonian Language Contact - from Linguistic League to Diaspora (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon K) Participants: Victor Friedman (U of Chicago), Andrew Dombrowski (U of Chicago), Grace E. Fielder (U of Arizona), Christina Kramer (U of Toronto, Canada), Marjan Markovic (U Sts Cyril & Methodius, Macedonia), Elena Petroska (U of Sts Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia / Indiana U)
• Panel 1-26 Unconditioned Conditionality? Civil Society, the Legacy of War and EU Conditionality in the Western Balkans (Location: Massachusetts) Participants: Florian Bieber (U of Kent, UK), Marlene Spoerri (U of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Ivana Djuric (U of Nottingham, UK/CRCEES), Adam Fagan (U of London, UK), Gulnur Aybet (U of Kent, UK)
• Panel 1-27 Intellectuals, Church and State in Late 19th-Century Croatia (Location: MIT) Participants: Jure Kristo (Croatian Inst of History, Croatia), William B. Tomljanovich (United Nations), Nives Rumenjak (CREES, U of Pittsburgh), Ellen Elias-Bursac, Sarah Anne Kent (U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point), Tatiana Kuzmic (U of Texas at Austin)
• Panel 1-37 Consciousness and Civil Society in Bulgaria and Romania (Location: Tufts) Participants: Katherine M. Verdery (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Anna Miroslavova Mirkova (Sofia U, Bulgaria), Mihaela Serban (New York U), Nikolay Valkov (Université de Montréal, Canada), Evguenia N. Davidova (Portland State U)
• Roundtable 1-39 Forgotten Serbian Thinkers: Borisavljević, Vasić, Krakov and Milanković - Current Relevance (Location: Vineyard) Participants: Jelena Bogdanovic (East Carolina U), Visnja Ciric (U of Belgrade, Serbia), Dusan Danilovic (Temple U), Nikola Marinkovic (U of Belgrade, Serbia), Ljubomir Milanovic (Rutgers U), Nebojsa Petar Stankovic (Princeton U)

2:00 P.M. -3:45 P.M.

• Panel 2-12 Seminal Themes in Slovene History: The Slovene-Croatian Border in the 19th Century, Yugoslav and Slovene Politics in the 1930s, and the Issue of Lustration after Independence (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Robert G. Minnich (U of Bergen, Norway), Marko Zajc (Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia), Jure Gasparic (Institute for Contemporary History, Slovenia), Peter Rozic (Georgetown U), Sarah Anne Kent (U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point), Gregor Kranjc (U of Toronto, Canada)
• Panel 2-16 Building and Destroying Communities in the Former Yugoslavia (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon E) Participants: Nancy Susanne Martin (U of Texas at Austin), Vasiliki Neofotistos (SUNY, Buffalo), Frances Trix (Indiana U), Emily Greble Balic (Remarque Institute, NYU)
• Panel 2-24 Subversive Biographies of the Croatian Renaissance (Location: Hyannis) Participants: Anita Peti-Stantić (U of Zagreb, Croatia), Marijan Despalatovic (Connecticut College), Aida Vidan (Harvard U), Gordan Matas (U of Split, Croatia), Ivo Soljan (Grand Valley State U)
• Panel 2-37 The Cultural Politics of the National (Re)awakenings in Southeastern Europe (Location: Tufts) Participants: Katrin Hristova Bozeva-Abazi (McGill U, Canada), Venetta Todorova Ivanova (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Anca Mandru (Central European U, Hungary), James Frusetta (Hampden-Sydney College), Mari A. Firkatian (U of Hartford)
• Panel 2-38 Dynamics of the Turkish Foreign Policy in the Basin of Five Seas (Location: Vermont) Participants: Ozlem TUR (Middle East Technical U, METU), Itir Bagdadi (Izmir U of Economics, Turkey), Ozan Arslan (Izmir U of Economics, Turkey)

4:00 P.M. -5:45 P.M.

• Panel 3-12 Progress in Social, Legal and Governmental Reforms in Serbia (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Ljubica D Popovich (Vanderbilt U), Sofija Korac (Tufts U), Borko Komnenovic (Shirley and Banister Public Affairs), Obrad Kesic (TSM Global Consultants, LLC), David Binder (The New York Times)
• Panel 3-39 Ruptures and Continuities in Yugoslav Avant-Gardes and Post-Avant-Gardes (Location: Vineyard) Participants: Radmila Gorup (Columbia U), Richard Lee Pierre (U of Michigan), Marijeta Bozovic (Columbia U), Vladislav Beronja (U of Michigan), Aleksandar Boskovic (U of Michigan)

Friday, November 13
8:00 A.M. -9:45 A.M.

• Panel 4-12 Empires, Interrupted: Imperial Legacies and Contemporary National Identity Formation in the Balkans, South Caucasus and Crimea (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Artyom H. Tonoyan (Baylor U, J.M. Dawson institute of Church-State Studies), Maja Catic (Brandeis U), Filiz Tutku Aydin (U of Toronto, Canada), Christopher Marsh (Baylor U)
• Panel 4-26 Representations of Violence in Balkan Literature (Location: Massachusetts) Participants: Tatjana Aleksic (U of Michigan), Marina Antic (U of Wisconsin, Madison), Victor Friedman (U of Chicago), Ani Kokobobo (Columbia U), Damjana Mraovic-O’Hare (Pennsylvania State U), Dragana Obradovic (U College London, UK)
• Panel 4-36 Contemporary Bosnian Film (Location: Suffolk) Participants: Gregory Steven Carleton (Tufts U), Trevor Laurence Jockims (CUNY Graduate Center), Natasa Milas (Yale U), Cynthia F. Simmons (Boston College), Lucian Ghita (Yale U)
• Panel 4-38 Sponsored by Association for Croatian Studies Relations between the U.S. and Croatia, 1990-1996 (Location: Vermont) Participants: Joseph T. Bombelles, Peter Galbraith (Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation), Branko Salaj (Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia), Miroslav Tudjman (U of Zagreb, Croatia), Joseph McCarthy (Harvard U, Kennedy School)
• Panel 4-39 Bulgarian Militant Right-Wing Nationalism in Historical Perspective (Location: Vineyard) Participants: Robert Donnorummo (U of Pittsburgh), Benedict Edward DeDominicis (American U in Bulgaria), Didar Erdinc (American U in Bulgaria), Boris M Gurov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria), Markus Wien (American U in Bulgaria)

10:00 A.M. -11:45 A.M.

• Panel 5-05 Orthodoxy and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century (Location: Brandeis) Participants: Jane Burbank (New York U), Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter (California State Polytechnic U), Scott M. Kenworthy (Miami U), Gregory L. Freeze (Brandeis U), Stephen Kalmar Batalden (Arizona State U)
• Panel 5-16 Reading Architecture and City Life in Postwar Eastern Europe, Part III: Yugoslav Exceptionalism? (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon E) Participants: Sonia A. Hirt (Virginia Tech), Nande Korpnik (U of Maribor, Slovenia), Daniela Rankovic (U of Belgrade, Serbia), Veronica E. Aplenc (Rosemont College), Vladimir Kulic (Florida Atlantic U)
• Panel 5-12 Forging Socialist Yugoslavia among Diverse Communities, 1943–1948 (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Emil Kerenji (U of South Carolina), Daniel Perez (Stanford U), Emily Greble Balic (Remarque Institute, NYU), Jelena Batinic (Stanford U), Melissa Katherine Bokovoy (U of New Mexico)
• Panel 5-34 What’s the Score on Moldova? Conflict and Identity as the Republic Approaches Twenty Years (Location: Rhode Island) Participants: Matthew Ciscel (Central Connecticut State U), Luke March (U of Edinburgh, UK), Elizabeth A. Anderson (American U), Patricia Fogerty (Emory U), Paul Daniel Quinlan (Providence College)

1:00 P.M. -2:45 P.M.

• Panel 6-27 Representing Religious Lives (Location: MIT) Participants: Lavinia Stan (St. Francis Xavier U, Canada), Roland Clark (U of Pittsburgh), Joel C. Brady (U of Pittsburgh), Arpad von Klimo (U of Pittsburgh), Milica Bakic-Hayden (U of Pittsburgh)
• Panel 6-37 Music, Poetry and the State in Russia and Bulgaria (Location: Tufts) Participants: Stefka Hristova (UC Irvine), Grzegorz Danowski, Eran Livni (Indiana U), Margarita Safariants (Yale U)

3:00 P.M. -4:45 P.M.

• Panel 7-12 State-Building in Yugoslavia (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Biljana D. Obradovic (Xavier U of Louisiana), Ana Antic (Columbia U), Tanja Damljanovic Conley, James Frusetta (Hampden-Sydney College)
• Panel 7-29 Debating Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Cosmopolitan Melting Pot or a Balkan Powder-keg? (Location: New Hampshire) Participants: Edin Hajdarpasic (Loyola U Chicago), Robert M. Hayden (U of Pittsburgh), Fedja Buric (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Svetlana Broz (GARIWO), Maria Todorova (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Panel 7-38 Appropriating Adria: The Adriatic Sea as a Space of Conflict and Coexistence between the Italian and the South Slavic Worlds (Location: Vermont) Participants: Larry Wolff (New York U), Dominique K Reill (U of Miami), Borut Klabjan (U of Primorska, Slovenia), Igor Tchoukarine (EHESS, France), Pamela Lynn Ballinger (Bowdoin College)

5:00 P.M. -6:45 P.M.

• Panel 8-12 State and Institutions in Albania and Kosovo: New Perspectives (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Elidor Mehilli (Princeton U), Besnik Pula (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Elton Skendaj (Cornell U), Smoki Musaraj (The New School), James Pettifer (Defence Academy of the UK)
• Panel 8-24 Narrating South Slav Muslim Lives: Ivo Andric and Mesa Selimovic (Location: Hyannis) Participants: Olga L. Medvedkov (Wittenberg U), Thomas J. Butler, Keith Doubt (Wittenberg U), Amila Buturovic (York U), Robert J. Donia (U of Michigan)
• Roundtable 8-26 The EU in the Balkans: Recent Entrants, Hopeful Aspirants (Location: Massachusetts) Participants: Walter Downing Connor (Boston U), Evan Kraft (Natl Bank of Croatia, Croatia), John R. Lampe (U of Maryland), Ronald H. Linden (U of Pittsburgh)
• Panel 8-29 Documenting Conflict in Former Yugoslavia (Location: New Hampshire) Participants: Stephen Kalmar Batalden (Arizona State U), Filip Erdjelac (New York U), Brian Gratton (Arizona State U), Zilka Spahic-Siljak (U of Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina), Robert M. Hayden (U of Pittsburgh)

Saturday, November 14
8:00 A.M. -9:45 A.M.

• Panel 9-29 National Epics, International Solidarity, and Interethnic Romance in the Modern History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Location: New Hampshire) Participants: Kate Meehan Pedrotty (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatiana Kuzmic (U of Texas at Austin), James DC Walker (Ohio State U), Zdenko Mandusic (U of Chicago), Cynthia F. Simmons (Boston College)
• Roundtable 9-26 1989–1999–2009 The Renaissance of Europe? The Communist Collapse, the Helsinki Decision for the EU Enlargement, and the Western Balkans Today (Location: Massachusetts) Participants: Francine Friedman (Ball State U), Stefano Bianchini(U of Bologna, Italy), David B. Kanin (CIA), Julie Mostov (Drexel U), R. Craig Nation (US Army War College), Francesco Privitera (U of Bologna, Italy)
• Panel 9-27 Between the Sacred and Profane: Clericalism, Minorities, and the Quest for National Belonging in Greater Romania (Location: MIT) Participants: Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes U, UK), R. Chris Davis (U of Oxford, UK), Tudor Georgescu (Oxford Brookes U, UK), James Kapalo (U of London, UK), Vladimir Solonari (U of Central Florida)
• Panel 9-36 Serbian Music: Melodies and Rhythms, Past and Present (Location: Suffolk) Participants: Nada Petkovic (U of Chicago), Katarina Tomašević (Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia), Dimitrije Golemović (Belgrade Academy of Music, Dept of Ethnomusicology, Serbia), Owen Kohl (U of Chicago), Jim Samson (U of Trondheim, Norway)
• Panel 9-40 Representing Romani (Gypsy) Lives: The Politics of Identity in Contemporary Eastern Europe (Location: Wellesley) Participants: Eran Livni (Indiana U), Krista Harper (U of Massachusetts, Amherst), Carol T. Silverman (U of Oregon), Margaret Hiebert Beissinger (Princeton U), Alaina Maria Lemon (U of Michigan)

10:00 A.M. -11:45 A.M.

• Panel 10-12 Building Borderlands: The Institutionalization of Frontier Territories in Modern Southeast and Central Europe (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Theodora Dragostinova (Ohio State U), Edin Hajdarpasic (Loyola U Chicago), Caitlin E. Murdock (California State U, Long Beach), Mark David Pittaway (The Open U, UK), Pieter M. Judson (Swarthmore College)

1:00 P.M. -2:45 P.M.

• Panel 11-12 The King’s Testament - The 80th Anniversary of the Royal Dictatorship of King Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia 1929– 2009 (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Michael Eoghan Allen (George Mason U), Mario Jareb (Croatian Inst of History, Croatia), Hrvoje Capo (Croatian Inst of History, Croatia), John Peter Kraljic (Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, PC), John Paul Newman (U College Dublin, Ireland)
• Roundtable 11-24 Media, Diasporas, and Identities: The Comparative Cases of Serbia and Croatia (Location: Hyannis) Participants: Hrvoje Hrengek (Croatian Television), Domagoj Bebic (U of Zagreb, Croatia), Nataša Čorbić (UNDP), Marijana Grbesa (U of Zagreb, Croatia), Zlatan Krajina (Goldsmiths U, UK), Anamarija Musa (U of Zagreb, Croatia)
• Panel 11-34 Banking Transition in East and Southeast Europe (Location: Rhode Island) Particiapants: Peter Vodopivec (Inst for Modern History, Slovenia), Stephan Barisitz (Oesterreichische Nationalbank), Hermine Vidovic (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies), Zarko Lazarevic (Inst for Contemporary History, Slovenia), John P. Bonin (Wesleyan U), John R. Lampe (U of Maryland)

3:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

• Panel 12-12 The Life Histories of Slovene Socialist Directors and the Reality of Self-Management (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Timothy Pogacar (Bowling Green State U), Jurij Fikfak (ZRC SAZU, Slovenia), Jeffrey David Turk (ZRC SAZU, Slovenia), Tatiana Bajuk-Sencar (Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of the Arts, Slovenia), Robert G. Minnich (U of Bergen, Norway), Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher (U of Tennessee)

Sunday, November 15, 2009
8:00 A.M. -9:45 A.M.

• Panel 13-11 New Research in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics (Location: Falmouth) Participants: Bojan Belic (U of Washington), Traci Lindsey (UC Berkeley), Anita Peti-Stantic (U of Zagreb), Aleksandra Petrovic (U of Washington), Ronelle Alexander (UC Berkeley)
• Panel 13-12 Sponsored by Society for Slovene Studies Revising and Reinterpreting Contemporary History in Slovenia, Serbia and Japan (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Carole Rogel (Ohio State U), Dubravka Stojanovic (U of Belgrade, Serbia), Nobuhiro Shiba (U of Tokyo, Japan), Peter Vodopivec (Inst for Modern History, Slovenia), John K. Cox (North Dakota State U), Nicholas John Miller (Boise State U)
• Panel 13-16 Yugoslavia on the Move: Traveling and Tourism in Pursuit of the Socialist Good Life (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon E) Participants: Tanja Damljanovic Conley, Brigitte Le Normand (Indiana U Southeast), Kate Meehan Pedrotty (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Patrick H. Patterson (UC San Diego), Gyorgy G. Peteri (Norwegian U of Science & Technology, Norway)
• Roundtable 13-17 Sponsored by Society for Romanian Studies 2008 Parliamentary Elections and 2009 Presidential Elections in Romania (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon F) Participants: Peter Gross (U of Tennessee – Knoxville), Grigore Pop-Eleches (Princeton U), Michael Shafir (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Czech Republic), Vladimir Tismaneanu (U of Maryland), F. Peter Wagner (U of Giessen, Germany)
• Roundtable 13-18 The Memoirs of Wayne Vucinich: Portrait of the Historian as a Young Man in Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, and Eastern Europe (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon G) Participants: Norman M. Naimark (Stanford U), Wendy Bracewell (U of London, UK), Holly Case (Cornell U), Thomas Allan Emmert (Gustavus Adolphus College), Tomislav Zoran Longinovic (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Larry Wolff (New York U)

10:00 A.M. -11:45 A.M.

• Panel 14-01 Socialist and Postsocialist Spaces of Identity in Contemporary Romania (Location: Arlington) Participants: Fedja Buric (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Diana Georgescu (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Alexandra Nacu (Sciences-Po, France), Oana Popescu-Sandu (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Gail Kligman(UCLA)
• Panel 14-12 Serbia in Transition: 2000–2010 (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Slobodan Pesic (American Public U), Snezana Grk (Institute of Social Sciences, Serbia), Svetlana Adamovich (School of Political Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia), Gordana Pesakovic (Argosy U), Boris Bulatovic (U of Novi Sad, Serbia)
• Panel 14-24 Anxiety of Shared Identity in Post-Yugoslav Fiction (Location: Hyannis) Participants: Robert Rakocevic (CEEM, INALCO – Paris, France), Aleksandar Boskovic (U of Michigan), Tatjana Aleksic (U of Michigan), Vladimir Zoric (U of Nottingham, UK)
• Panel 14-33 Russia and the Orthodox East in the Nineteenth-Century (Location: Regis) Participants: John Athanasios Mazis (Hamline U), Theophilus C. Prousis (U of North Florida), Lucien Frary (Rider U), Jack Fairey (National U of Singapore, Singapore), Gregory Lynn Bruess (U of Northern Iowa)
• Panel 14-38 Third World Solidarity in Yugoslavia and the USSR (Location: Vermont) Participants: Susan E. Costanzo (Western Washington U), Michael Rouland (Miami U), Julie Hessler (U of Oregon), James MacEwan Robertson (New York U), Jennifer Ann Amos (U of Chicago), Maxim Matusevich (Seton Hall U)

12:00 P.M. -1:45 P.M.

• Panel 15-04 Word and Image in the Arts of Serbia (Location: Boston University) Participants: Ruzica Popovitch-Krekic (Mt St Mary’s College), Ljubica D Popovich (Vanderbilt U), Lilien Filipovitch Robinson (George Washington U), Jelena Milojkovic-Djuric (Texas A&M U), Ida Sinkevic (Lafayette College)
• Roundtable 15-12 Sponsored by Society for Albanian Studies The 2009 Albanian Parliamentary Elections: An Analysis (Location: Grand Ballroom Salon A) Participants: Nicholas C. Pano (Western Illinois U), Robert C. Austin (U of Toronto, Canada), Elez Biberaj (Voice of America), Bernd J. Fischer (Indiana U, Fort Wayne Ines), A. Murzaku (Seton Hall U), Gregory James Pano (Salem State College)
• Panel 15-24 Exile in Twentieth-Century Serbian and Croatian Literature (Location: Hyannis) Participants: Irena Lazic (Southern Connecticut State U), Vladimir Zoric (U of Nottingham, UK), Robert Rakocevic (CEEM, INALCO – Paris, France), Dragana Obradovic (U College London, UK), Radmila Gorup (Columbia U)
• Panel 15-38 Sponsored by North American Society for Serbian Studies Serbia Beyond 2009: Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Choices (Location: Vermont) Participants: Slobodan Pesic (American Public U), Dragana Filipovic (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia), Sergei Romanenko (Russian Academy of Sciences), David B. Kanin (CIA), Angela V. Ilic (Temple U), Julian Schuster (Hamline U)
• Panel 15-33 Persistence of the Old Regime? Imperial Russia in the Ottoman East, 1830–1917 (Location: Regis) Participants: Ilya Vinkovetsky (Simon Fraser U, Canada), Natasha Renee Margulis (U of Pittsburgh at Greensburg), Denis Vladimirovich Vovchenko (Northeastern State U), Halit Dundar Akarca (Princeton U), Victor Taki
  
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