Second Call for Papers

Wed Feb 1 14:49:15 UTC 2006

Second Call for Papers

The Departments of Slavic Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in 
Munich and the Universität Regensburg are pleased to announce the 

Second International Perspectives on Slavistics Conference

The conference will take place in Regensburg, Germany, September 21-24, 
2006.
The goals of the conference are to encourage the study of Slavic languages 
and literatures and to establish connections among scholars working in 
these areas. There will be three parallel sections, two focusing on 
literature and cultural studies, the third one reserved for linguistics. 
The linguistics section will have the honour to host the 6th Annual 
Conference of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association.
The following keynote lectures will be presented:
Language Mixing and Language Separation in Bilingual Russian-German 
Children (Tanja Anstatt)
Features: Slavonic and Typological Perspectives (Greville Corbett)
Speaking from the Inside: Stories of Everyday Life in Russia (Catriona 
Kelly)
On the Discourse of National Identity in Russian Culture (Renata von 
Maydell)
Fundamentals of Ego-Linguistics. Self-reference, Self-centred Speech Acts, 
and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Russian (Daniel Weiss)
Fiction and Individuality (Georg Witte)

Submissions from any scholar working on Slavic languages or literatures are 
welcomed, including those in Slavic departments, as well as in specialized 
linguistics or literature departments. We particularly want to encourage 
young scholars to participate in this conference. Papers will be considered 
on topics relating to the diachronic or synchronic study of Slavic 
languages and literatures from any theoretical perspective. Each paper will 
be allowed thirty minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). The 
deadline for submissions is April 15th 2006 (abstract specifications see 
below). 
Presentations should be in English in order to open the conference up to 
researchers working on non-Slavic languages and literatures. 
The participation fee will be 50 euros (25 for graduate students and 
passive participants), to be paid in advance. Detailed information on 
payment options & deadlines and hotel accommodation will be provided by May 
2006. The participation fee covers the abstract booklet, other conference 
materials, refreshments and snacks. A limited number of participants from 
economically disadvantaged countries may be allowed free participation upon 
application. Please include a motivated application for free participation 
when sending in your abstract. In assigning waivers priority will be given 
to graduate students and non-tenured scholars. 
Please, do not hesitate to contact us for further details or questions (pos2
(at)slav.fak12.uni-muenchen.de).

Abstract specifications: 
The abstracts should not exceed 500 words (plus an additional page for 
tables, graphs and references, if necessary). Please use MS Word for 
Windows and Times New Roman or MS Word for Apple and TimesCE or Unicode 
text. Make sure to use the international transcription in case you work on 
languages with a Cyrillic alphabet. Your abstract should present a 
hypothesis and outline your plan for defending that hypothesis, i.e. it 
should specify research question(s), an approach/method to the data, and 
obtained results. Each abstract will be anonymously reviewed by independent 
reviewers.
Please, send your name, address, affiliation and the title of your abstract 
by e-mail. The text of the abstract should be sent in an attached file. 
This file should not include the author's name. Submit your abstract to pos2
(at)slav.fak12.uni-muenchen.de by April 15th 2006. Notifications of the 
Organizing Committees decisions will be sent out by May 31st 2006. 

Prof. Dr. Björn Hansen
Dr. Roland Meyer
Universität Regensburg
Universitätsstr. 27
D-93040 Regensburg

PD Dr. Imke Mendoza
Miriam Finkelstein, M.A.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Geschwister-Scholl Pl. 1
D-80539 München

Conference webpage: http://www-slavistik.uni-regensburg.de/pos/

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