AIESEE and its 8th International Congress

[George Fowler]

I am posting the following announcement at the request of Victor Friedman
(vfriedm at midway.uchicago.edu); please send follow-up inquiries and the like
to him, not to me! George Fowler

Dear Colleagues,

I would greatly appreciate your help in making the Eighth International
Congress of the International Association for Southeast European Studies
(AIESEE) known to as wide a scholarly audience as possible.  AIESEE was
founded in 1962 and is the oldest active international organization devoted
to the study of Southeastern Europe.  US participation in AIESEE is
coordinated by the US National Committee if AIESEE, which is overseen by
the Committee on East European Studies of the American Council of Learned
Societies.  As you will see, the themes of the conference cover a broad
range of fields including journalism and law in addition to the more
traditional humanities and social sciences.  I am appending here two forms
of announcement.  The short one is suitable for any list of future meetings
or a small announcement in a newsletter or journal or on a web page or for
sending via a listserver.  If it would be possible for you to use the
longer version in your newsletter or web page or to provide a link to the
SEESA Web site (address given in short announcement), that would be even
more desirable.
I thank you in advance for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Victor A. Friedman
President, US Committee of AIESEE
Professor of Slavic and Balkan linguistics, University of Chicago

SHORT ANNOUNCEMENT
The Eighth International Congress of the International Association for
Southeast European Studies (AIESEE), Bucharest, 24-29 August, 1999.  For
information, see the Southeast European Studies Association web page at
http://www.unc.edu/~rdgreenb/seesa, or contact Prof. Victor A. Friedman,
President, US Committee of AIESEE at vfriedm at midway.uchicago.edu.  If
contacting by snail mail (Slavic Dept., U. of Chicago, 1130 E. 59th St.,
Chicago, IL  60637) include SASE.

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
The Eighth International Congress of the International Association for
Southeast European Studies (AIESEE) will be held in Bucharest 24-29 August,
1999.

The overall theme of the Congress is "Southeastern Europe on the Eve of the
Twenty-First Century."

The following Major Themes and Roundtables have been approved by the
Executive Board of AIESEE:

Major Themes:
1.  Central Europe - Eastern Europe and the historical place of the
Balkans:  A problem of political and spiritual geography.
2.  Southeastern Europe and Asia (Asia Minor, Central Asia, and the
Near/Middle East):  Political, economic, and cultural relations.
3.  Southeast European ethnic and religious minorities:  A debate on
tolerance and intolerance.
4.  Greek and Roman cultural influence in the Balkans:  A process.
5.  Southeast European diasporas:  Cultural interrelations.
6.  Journalism and democracies in Southeastern Europe on the eve of the
year 2000.
7.  Center and periphery in the history of the visual arts of Southeastern
Europe
8.  Byzantine musical traditions in Southeastern Europe in the 16th-19th
centuries.
9.  Convergences and divergences in the languages of Southeastern Europe.
10.  The premises of European unity:  Latin elements in Southeastern Europe
and the Pontic region in the middle ages and the modern epoch.
11.  Southeast European identity:  An anthropological perspective.

Round tables:
A.  The role and moral responsibility of the Southeast European historian.
B.  The Italian renaissance and Southeastern Europe.
C.  The state of law in the Balkans and political extremes in the 20th century.
D.  Interconfessional dialogue and spiritual frontiers of Southeastern
Europe in the 16th-19th centuries.
E.  From Mount Athos to North America:  The bicentennial of the new
Hesychasm in Eastern Christianity.
F.  The evolution of the urban phenomenon in Southeastern Europe (3rd-6th
centuries).
G.  Interdisciplinary research and the history of the Paleo-Balkan peoples.

The registration fee will be $50.00
The languages of the conference are English, French, German, Italian, and
Russian

It is possible that a very small number of modest travel grants will be
available to US scholars participating in the Congress on a competitive
basis, but this is not yet certain.

Those wishing to participate in the Congress with a report (25-30 pages;
presentation time to be announced, probably 20 minutes)  should submit a
title to the address given below as soon as possible, but no later than 1
March.
Rapporteurs will be selected by the Organizational Committee of the
Congress (Bucharest).  Proposed reports that are not accepted as reports
will be eligible for presentation as communications.

Titles for communications (probably 10 minutes) and roundtable
presentations are also welcome.

No announcements have been made concerning deadlines for abstracts or
publication.

There is *no* further information about the details of the Congress at his
time.

All those wishing to be kept informed of further developments should send
an email to
vfriedm at midway.uchicago.edu

Persons without email can send a letter to:
Victor A. Friedman, President US Committee of AIESEE
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Chicago
1130 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL  60637
Letters will not be answered unless they include a stamped, self-addressed
envelope.