Call for papers/AATSEEL panel/Non-Slavic languages

[George Fowler h(317)726-1482 o(812)855-2829]

            Call for Papers--Late AATSEEL linguistics panel

                         "Non-Slavic Languages"

As an experiment, I would like to try to put together a panel on non-Slavic
languages, to be presented at the 1995 AATSEEL meeting in Chicago on December
28-30. If this panel is a success (possible criteria: is well-attended, has good
papers, a consensus of those in attendance feels that it meets a demonstrable
need within AATSEEL, etc.), we could repeat it. Otherwise it can be a one-shot
affair.

As I see it, the scope of this panel includes both the non-Slavic languages of
"Eastern Europe", which belong more or less naturally within AATSEEL
(Hungarian, Romanian, Albanian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian), AS WELL AS
non-Slavic languages of the xUSSR. The latter strain the AATSEEL mandate a bit;
however, if we note that Russian is the numero uno language/culture/area for
AATSEEL, and that many of these languages coexist with Russian within various
former Soviet republics, then there is a geographic case for including them.
Moreover, running such a panel in Chicago is quite appropriate, since it is the
home of the long-running conference on non-Slavic languages of the USSR and
successor states. Finally, a number of Slavists do have secondary research
interests in these areas.

If you would like to propose a paper for this panel, please send me a brief
abstract by email, snailmail, or fax (coordinates at the end of the message).
At the moment, three slots are available on the panel. I hope to have it fully
constituted by April 15.

George Fowler

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George Fowler                       GFowler at Indiana.Edu [Email]
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