SEEFA AAASS call for papers

[J. Rouhier-Willoughby]

Call for Papers AAASS:

The Slavic and East European Folklore Association, an affiliate of
AAASS, is organizing the following panels for the conference on
November 3-6 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Please submit electronically in
an email or in Word the following: paper title, brief abstract, a.v.
equipment needed and a c.v. (using the c.v. form available on the
www.aaass.org website) to Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby at
jrouhie at uky.edu before December 30. Panels will be finalized the week
of January 1; panelists will be informed by email of the panel
composition within a week after the deadline. Please indicate which
of the following panels you would like to participate in:

1)  The Nature of Spectacle:  Folk Drama, Literary Studies and Ritual
(studies of performance and drama from the perspective of folk and/or
        literary material among the East European peoples)
2)  Language Death, Language Change and Cultural Belief in Eastern
Europe (issues on how culture may be conveyed when language changes or
        dies, folk linguistics, language and culture)
3)  Oral History and Memoir (approaches to/issues in/methodology of
oral history and memoir in East Europe)
4)  Vernacular Orthodoxy and Escatology in Eastern Europe (approaches
to vernacular Orthodoxy and end-of-the-world scenarios)
5)  Contemporary Folk Genres (the changes in Eastern Europe have
produced a great deal of new folklore, both the resurgence of some
forgotten
        genres and flourishing of those that were always in
existence, such as political jokes; this panel is dedicated to a
study of these genres
        in the face of social and political change)

Please note the following AAASS regulations:

1. Each participant may only have one role on a panel or roundtable,
may only appear on two panels or roundtables during
the convention, and only present one paper during the convention. You
may organize as many panels or roundtables as
you wish and you may give a paper on one panel and be the chair, or a
discussant, or a participant on one other, but you cannot
be chair and discussant or chair and give a paper on the same panel,
and you CAN NOT sign up for more than two panels/
roundtables.
2. Panels can only have: one Chair; maximum of 3 papers; maximum of 2
discussants.
3. All participants who are Slavic scholars living in the U.S. must
be current AAASS members. Only foreigners and scholars outside
the field of Slavic studies do not need to join AAASS. All
participants on panels/roundtables must preregister by the deadline
and
pay the registration fee.
4. Be sure to include any requests for audiovisual equipment. Please
specify types of equipment (i.e., "overhead projector," not
simply "projector"). Please keep in mind that the AAASS can provide
up to $100 worth of equipment; you will be charged for
anything above this amount. The deadline for all audiovisual
equipment requests is July 1, 2005.

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Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Associate Professor
Russian and Eastern Studies and Linguistics
1055 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Office: (859) 257-1756
Fax: (859) 257-3743
Russian and Eastern Studies: (859) 257-3761
jrouhie at uky.edu
http://www.uky.edu/~jrouhie/
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