Information about Int'l Congress of Slavists

[Robert Beard]

Many thanks to Michael Flier and George Fowler for apprising us of the fact
that only PhD-granting departments are let in on the International
Congresses of Slavists.  I'm not sure what the magic of PhD-granting
departments are.  Bucknell has 3 Slavists producing award-winning
publications in its Russian Program and I know that many more are in
non-PhD-granting institutions.  Yet the Bucknell Russian Program was not
alerted of the up-coming congress.

What in the world is wrong in telling everybody inside and outside the field
about the congress, as the coordinators of most other congresses do, and
then selecting the very best papers rather than the best papers from
not-too-young and not-too-old PhD-granting Slavists?  I always find it
difficult to understand why we so often undertake such Byzantine
complexities in order to avoid plain and simple excellence.



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Robert Beard                              Bucknell University
Russian & Linguistics Programs            Lewisburg, PA 17837
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