Two recently published articles address issues of discursive nation building in Southeastern Europe:
Laura Ceia-Minjares. Balkan Exotic: The Francophone Birth and Rebirth of a Nation According to Panait Istrati and Marius Daniel Popesco. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 13/2, 2009, 191-199.
Ognyan Kovachev. A Romance of the Balkans: Literary Mystification and the Bulgarian Nation-imagining. Slavia, 78/1-2, 2009, 23-32.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
To appear
We are looking forward to:
Xenakis, Sappho (2009) Resisting submission? The obstinacy of "Balkan" characteristics in Greece as dissidence against "The West". In: Cheliotis, Leonidas, (ed.) The banality of good: roots, rites and sites of resistance. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.
Xenakis, Sappho (2009) Resisting submission? The obstinacy of "Balkan" characteristics in Greece as dissidence against "The West". In: Cheliotis, Leonidas, (ed.) The banality of good: roots, rites and sites of resistance. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.
Friday, September 4, 2009
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).
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).
Thursday, September 3, 2009
.yu is being phased out
I received a message from an address from the .rs domain. I had never seen it so I looked it up: it was from Serbia. Here is the whole story of the .yu domain: http://www.iana.org/reports/2007/rs-yu-report-11sep2007.html
So, we have now:
Bosnia and Herzegovina -> .ba
Croatia -> .hr
Montenegro -> .me
Macedonia -> .mk
Serbia -> .rs
Slovenia -> .si
Moldova -> .md
.yu (as well .su of Soviet Union) are being phased out.
ICANN has not assigned yet a domain to Kosova...
So, we have now:
Bosnia and Herzegovina -> .ba
Croatia -> .hr
Montenegro -> .me
Macedonia -> .mk
Serbia -> .rs
Slovenia -> .si
Moldova -> .md
.yu (as well .su of Soviet Union) are being phased out.
ICANN has not assigned yet a domain to Kosova...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Africans in the South East European Collective Memory
Posted on hehalf of Biljana Sikimić
Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade
Interpretations: European Research Project for Poetics and Hermeneutics. Volume III: Црна Арапина како фигура на меморија (Black Arab as a Figure of Memory). 2009.
An interdiciplinary UNESCO-sponsored project of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences under the leadership of Kata Kulavkova. More about the project, the previous and upcoming volumes can be learned at http://www.interpretations.mk/basic.asp
For a table of contents and English-language abstracts of the contributions click here. The project was noticed in the media. See for instance Politika Online.
Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade
Interpretations: European Research Project for Poetics and Hermeneutics. Volume III: Црна Арапина како фигура на меморија (Black Arab as a Figure of Memory). 2009.
An interdiciplinary UNESCO-sponsored project of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences under the leadership of Kata Kulavkova. More about the project, the previous and upcoming volumes can be learned at http://www.interpretations.mk/basic.asp
For a table of contents and English-language abstracts of the contributions click here. The project was noticed in the media. See for instance Politika Online.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
The Institute of Linguistics "Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti" is 60 years old!
The Institute of Linguistics "Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti" of the Romanian Academy, amalgamated with the former Institute of Phonetics and Dialectology, is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary. The festivities include an assembly at the Aula of the Romanian Academy (28 September 2009, 10 am) followed by the opening of an exhibition at Casa Academiei (Str. 13 Septembrie 13). A volume will be published commemorating the research activities carried out by the Institute during its sixty years of existence.
A New Dissertation in South Slavic Linguistics
Adam Werle. Word, Phrase, and Clitic Prosody in Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian. CreateSpace, 2009.
Institution: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Program: Department of Linguistics
Degree Date: 2009
Available at Amazon.com.
For an abstract see Linguist List.
Institution: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Program: Department of Linguistics
Degree Date: 2009
Available at Amazon.com.
For an abstract see Linguist List.
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