Bai Ganyo in English and in World Literature
Chair: Ronelle Alexander, UC Berkeley
Participants: Wayles Browne, Cornell U
Grace E. Fielder, U of Arizona
Victor Allen Friedman, U of Chicago
Christina Elizabeth Kramer, U of Toronto (Canada)
Catherine Rudin, Wayne State College
Location: San Gabriel A, Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles
Session 7.17: Friday 19 November 3:15-5:00 pm
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
SEESA business meeting 2010
This year's business meeting will take place at the ASEEES convention in Los Angeles in the La Brea Room at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites on 7 pm on Friday, November 19.
Everybody welcome!
The program of the ASEEES annual convention is available at http://www.aseees.org/convention/2010-preprogram.pdf
Everybody welcome!
The program of the ASEEES annual convention is available at http://www.aseees.org/convention/2010-preprogram.pdf
Monday, October 11, 2010
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
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
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
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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.
Monday, July 5, 2010
A new Rodopi title
British Literature and the Balkans.
Themes and Contexts.
Hammond, Andrew
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2010, IV, 321 pp.
The manner in which south-east Europe is viewed by western cultures has been an increasingly important area of study over the last twenty years. Through a study of over 300 texts, the volume explores the emergence of the balkanist discourse in British fiction and travel writing in the imperial nineteenth century and its extensive transformations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Read more at http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IMAGOL+16
Themes and Contexts.
Hammond, Andrew
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2010, IV, 321 pp.
The manner in which south-east Europe is viewed by western cultures has been an increasingly important area of study over the last twenty years. Through a study of over 300 texts, the volume explores the emergence of the balkanist discourse in British fiction and travel writing in the imperial nineteenth century and its extensive transformations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Read more at http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IMAGOL+16
Sunday, May 30, 2010
New Book "South Slavic Discourse Particles"
South Slavic Discourse Particles
2010. ix, 166 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Publishing status: Available
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978 90 272 5601 0 / EUR 95.00 / USD 143.00
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Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-ignored in traditional linguistics and textbook grammars, and still relegated to marginal status in South Slavic, these linguistic phenomena have emerged as invaluable devices for cutting-edge theories of the semantics/pragmatics interface. This book, which is a pioneering study in such linguistic phenomena in South Slavic languages, is also among the first of its kind for a related group of languages. It builds on the recent findings of some of the most influential linguistically-oriented theories, such as Relevance Theory, Argumentation Theory and coherence-based approaches to explain the meaning and use of certain discourse/pragmatic particles/markers in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovene. These particles/markers are part of the contemporary and historical lexicons of the South Slavic languages, varying across regions and time, but also differing in origin. This book, which draws from naturally occurring data, written media and constructed examples, aims at a wider audience including scholars working in semantics/pragmatics and Slavic languages, and applied specialists interested in this area of research. The authors hope that this book will be conceived as a starting point for a structured inquiry into the flourishing field of discourse particles in South Slavic.
Table of contents
Preface | vii–viii |
Acknowledgement and dedication | ix |
1. South Slavic discourse particles: Introduction | 1–22 |
23–44 | |
45–63 | |
65–89 | |
91–108 | |
109–131 | |
133–162 | |
Note on contributors | 163–164 |
Index | 165–166 |
“The collection of studies in South Slavic discourse particles based on authoritative data is not only a very valuable contribution to Slavic Linguistics but also to the field of particle analysis and pragmatics as a whole. If it is true that discourse particles are procedural in nature guiding the interpretation process then it can be expected that markers with similar procedural functions will be found in diverse languages of the world.
Moreover, by choosing mainly two pragmatic models, the Relevance Theory of Sperber and Wilson and Ducrot and Anscrombre’s Theory of Argumentation and Topoi, the authors pay attention to various aspects of particle analysis (cognitive, communicative and argumentative) in a very successful way. It becomes more and more apparent that a single aspect for the analysis of particles and a single scope of application only covers part of the communicator’s intention of the communicator. In fact the authors have shown that not only the scope of utterance but also the level of discourse is indeed important to recognise in particle analysis. This collection provides also insight into the historical development of the particles from conceptual phenomena to procedural particles in a remarkable way. Moreover, every paper pays attention to clarity, detail and richness of data display. This is a work no linguist interested in discourse particles and pragmatics should ignore.”
Regina Blass, Professor of Linguistics and Translation Studies, Africa International University (AIU)
Moreover, by choosing mainly two pragmatic models, the Relevance Theory of Sperber and Wilson and Ducrot and Anscrombre’s Theory of Argumentation and Topoi, the authors pay attention to various aspects of particle analysis (cognitive, communicative and argumentative) in a very successful way. It becomes more and more apparent that a single aspect for the analysis of particles and a single scope of application only covers part of the communicator’s intention of the communicator. In fact the authors have shown that not only the scope of utterance but also the level of discourse is indeed important to recognise in particle analysis. This collection provides also insight into the historical development of the particles from conceptual phenomena to procedural particles in a remarkable way. Moreover, every paper pays attention to clarity, detail and richness of data display. This is a work no linguist interested in discourse particles and pragmatics should ignore.”
Regina Blass, Professor of Linguistics and Translation Studies, Africa International University (AIU)
“The articles in this collection represent path-breaking studies in Slavic linguistics and in pragmatics. South Slavic discourse particles are arguably the most intractable elements for both analysis and translation, and the studies in this volume greatly advance our understanding of these vital phenomena.”
Victor Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures,University of Chicago
“A most interesting volume which – by offering in-depth analyses of discourse particles from a group of languages that so far have hardly been studied from this point of view – constitutes a very welcome contribution to current knowledge of the role that such particles play in communication.”
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Professor of French Language and Linguistics, The University of Manchester
“This well-conceived and highly informative volume should be of particular interest to specialists in both discourse analysis and Slavic linguistics. Many readers will also benefit from the short survey of the sociolinguistic situation of the South Slavic languages which the book includes.”
Ranko Bugarski, Professor of English and General Linguistics, University of Belgrade
“This is a fascinating collection of studies about current spoken usage in each of the modern South Slavic languages. The level of theoretical discussion is sophisticated, yet all of the articles are accessible to anyone interested in language. Non-specialists will be particularly intrigued to see the ways in which these small but ubiquitous particles form a systematic part of the speech code of Bulgarians, Macedonians, Bosnians, Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.”
Professor Ronelle Alexander, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
“The South Slavic languages haven't always commanded the attention from linguists in general that they deserve. Moreover, discourse elements constitute a neglected topic within these languages. This well-conceived collection of interesting studies therefore enriches at once these two important areas of scholarly concern.”
Brian D. Joseph, Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics, and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics, The Ohio State University
“The studies in this volume provide fruitful extensions to our knowledge on the numerous functions of discourse particles with respect to text, discourse, argumentation and cognitive context. The volume thus contributes to our understanding of the challenges for theory development in the field.”
Kerstin Fischer, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
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