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.
