Southeast European Studies Association, April 26-28

Tue Apr 24 21:56:10 UTC 2007

Third Southeast European Studies Association Conference

April 26–28, 2007

Program

Thursday, April 26 (Holiday Inn on the Lane)

12–6            Conference Registration (in front of Buckeye I–II)

12:45  Welcoming Remarks            (Buckeye I–II)

Elisabeth Elliott (SEESA President)

Brian Joseph (Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics)

Daniel E. Collins (Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures)

Luke Wochensky (Center for Slavic and East European Studies)

1:00–2:30  Parallel Panels

Ia.              Economic and Political Transitions in Southeastern  
Europe            (Buckeye I–II)

Chair: Luke Wochensky (Ohio State University)

Gyöngyi Pásztor (Babes, -Bolyai University), "Spatial Segregation of  
Communist Neighbors in the Context of the Romanian Transition"

Carla Tumbas (Indiana University), "Serbia and the EU: Maintaining an  
Effective Conditionality Policy"

Elizabeth Raible (Indiana University), "Dialect, Language, Nation:  
Nationalist Discourse on the Croatian Language, 1850-1995"

Ib.              Albanian Linguistics (Buckeye III–IV)

                         Chair: Brian Joseph (Ohio State University)

Eric Hamp (University of Chicago), "Τίθημι, Love, and the Balkan  
Future"

Kelly Lynne Maynard (Northeastern Illinois University/University of  
Missouri at Columbia), "'I want to buy it' in the Albanian Glossary  
of Arnold von Harff"

2:30–2:45  Coffee Break/Discussions

2:45–4:15  Parallel Panels

IIa.       Literature, History, and National Identity      (Buckeye  
I–II)

             Chair: Yonka Krasteva (University of Veliko Tarnovo)

Ali Eminov (Wayne State College), "The Theme of Forced Assimilatilon  
in Turkish Short Stories from Bulgaria"

Jessica Wienhold (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Neither  
Here nor There: Negotiating Post-Communist Exile"

Ani Kokobobo (Columbia University), "Self, System and the Pure Vision  
in Ismail Kadare's Palace of Dreams"

IIb.            Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics of the Balkan  
Languages            (Buckeye III–IV)

                         Chair: Tom Priestly (University of Alberta)

John Leafgren (University of Arizona), "The Distribution of Bulgarian  
Concessive Constructions"

Lidija Cvikić (University of Zagreb/Indiana University), "New Trends  
in the Description of the Croatian Language"

Tania Ivanova-Sullivan (Ohio State University), "Expressing Surprise:  
The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Admirative in Modern Bulgarian"

4:15–4:30  Coffee Break/Discussions

4:30–6:30 Parallel Panels

IIIa.              Balkan History, 1 (Buckeye I–II)

                         Chair: Elisabeth Elliott (Northwestern  
University)

Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov (University of Lancaster), "South Slavic  
representations of woman's body and their Byzantine context"

Matthew Curtis (Ohio State University), "Petar II Petrović Njegoš  
and Gjergj Fishta: Composers of National Epics"

Constance Robinson (New School for Social Research), "Constructing  
Allies: The National Discourse of the Yugoslav Committee"

Seb Bytyci (Indiana University), "Civil Society in Kosova: A  
Comparison of the Pre-War (1989–1999) and Post-War (1999–2006)  
Periods"

IIIb.              Syntax of the Balkan Languages, 1             
(Buckeye III–IV)

Chair: Anastasia Smirnova (Ohio State University)

Elena Petroska (Indiana University), "The Agreement Hierarchy and  
Collective Nouns in Macedonian and Other South Slavic Languages"

Monica Irimia (University of Toronto), "A Feature Geometric Analysis  
of (Pseudo) Finiteness in Romanian"

Lora Bolton and Steven Franks (Indiana University), "Topic, Focus,  
and the Structure of the Left Periphery in Macedonian and Bulgarian"

Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College), "Multiple vs. Single -to in  
Bulgarian Multiple wh Relatives"

7:00–8:30  Reception            (Buckeye I–II)

Friday, April 27 (Ohio State University Campus)

8–12            Conference Registration (in front of Grand Lounge,  
Faculty Club)

8:30–10:30 Parallel Panels

IVb.  Talks Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Naylor  
Professorship, I (Grand Lounge, Faculty Club)

                         Chair:            Andrea Sims (Northwestern  
University)

Victor Friedman (University of Chicago), "Language as Flag(s):  
Reification, Rectification, and Refurbishment"

                         Grace Fielder (University of Arizona),  
"Discourse Markers as Flags of Identity"

             E. Wayles Browne (Cornell University), "Word order in  
Burgenland Croatian"

10:30-10:45  Coffee Break/Discussions

10:45–12:15            Parallel Panels

Va.                        Imagining the Modern Balkans: Humanistic  
Approaches (Mendenhall 185)

                         Chair: Daniel E. Collins (Ohio State  
University)

Yonka Krasteva (University of Veliko Tarnovo), "Under Western Eyes:  
Imagining and Teaching the Balkans in the Post-Cold War Era—the  
Bulgarian Case"

Elisabeth Elliott (Northwestern University), "Is a Thousand Words  
Worth a Picture?  The Image of Bulgaria as a New EU Member in the  
Major U.S. Media"

Sonya Petkova (Columbia University), "Contemporary Balkan Literatures  
in the Transition of Cultural Stereotypes and the Open Market Reality  
of the Globalization Era"

Vb.              Talks Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the  
Naylor Professorship, II (Grand Lounge, Faculty Club)

                         Chair: Ronelle Alexander (University of  
California, Berkeley)

Christina Kramer and Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux (University of Toronto),  
"Balkan Lives, Jewish Voices: Ladino through the Lens of the Balkan  
Sprachbund"

Ilse Lehiste (Ohio State University), "Word Tone and Melody Direction  
in a Sung Serbocroatian Ballad

Tom Priestly (University of Alberta), "Is There Balkan ‘Seepage’  
in East Slavic? Some Thoughts on Possible Romanian Syntactic  
Influence on Ukrainian Dialects"

12:15–1:30  Lunch (Faculty Club A–D)

1:30–3 Parallel Sessions

VIa. Remembrances of Kenneth E. Naylor (Grand Lounge, Faculty Club)

                         Chair: Christina Kramer (University of Toronto)

Ronelle Alexander (University of California, Berkeley), "Kenneth E.  
Naylor: A Retrospective, Part I"

Howard Aronson (University of Chicago): Kenneth E. Naylor: A  
Retrospective, Part II"

Zuzanna Topolińska (Macedonian Academy of Sciences), " Balkan  
Remembrances of Kenneth Naylor" (read by Christina Kramer)

Charles Munnell (University of Houston), " Some Personal Remembrances  
of Kenneth Naylor"

Mary Allen Johnson (Ohio State University), " Dr. Naylor: A Student's  
Perspective"

VIb. Popular Culture and Folklore (Mendenhall 185)

Chair: Sonya Petkova (Columbia University)

Predrag Kovacevic (Miami University/Ohio State University): "Punk,  
New Wave, and the Westernization of Yugoslav Culture"

David Ratcliff (Ohio State University): "Rock, Turbo-Folk, and the  
Crisis in Yugoslavia"

Ana Chelariu (Cliffside Park Free Public Library), "The Role of  
Metaphors in Mythical Language: Some Examples from Romanian Mythology"

3–3:30  Break

3:30–5  Plenary Session (Grand Lounge, Faculty Club)

VII.            Tenth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture

                         Welcoming Remarks by Dr. John Roberts, Dean,  
College of Humanities

                         Introduction of Brian D. Joseph by Victor  
Friedman (University of Chicago)

                         Brian D. Joseph, "Why We Need History in  
Doing Balkan Linguistics"

5–6:30  Reception (Grand Lounge, Faculty Club)

Saturday, April 28 (Holiday Inn on the Lane)

8:15–9                          Conference Registration (in front of  
Buckeye I–II)

                                     Continental Breakfast (Buckeye  
I–II and III–IV)

9–11:00

VIIIa. Contemporary Balkan Discourse (Buckeye I–II)

                         Chair: Catalin Anghelina (Ohio State  
University)

Sedef Uzuner (State University of New York at Albany), "The Conflicts  
Periphery Scholars Face in Their Attempts to Gain Access to Global  
Academic Communities"

Anastasia Smirnova (Ohio State University), "Mass Media Without  
Control: Changes in Public Language in Post-Communist Bulgaria"

Doina Cajvaneanu (University of Trento), "Democratization or Euro- 
Speak?  EU Accession and Conceptual Change in the Romanian Political  
Vocabulary"

             Brian Chorley (Ohio State University): "Blame and  
Propaganda in the Yugoslav Wars"

VIIIb.             Medieval Balkan Studies             (Buckeye III– 
IV)

                         Chair: Predrag Matejic (Ohio State University)

Boris Todorov (UCLA), "Apocalyptic Prophecies as Instruments of  
Persuasion: The Eleventh-Century Bulgarian Case"

Andrew Kier (Ohio State University), "Four Non-Canonical Prayers in a  
South Slavic Prayerbook"

James Pennington (Ohio State University), "If the Jus Fits: On the  
Orthography of Miroslav's Gospel"

11:00–11:15            Coffee Break/Discussion

11:15–12:15            Parallel Panels

IXa.            Prehistory of the Balkan Slavic Languages (Buckeye I– 
II)

                         Chair: Tania Ivanova-Sullivan (Ohio State  
University)

Joseph Schallert (University of Toronto) and Marc Greenberg  
(University of Kansas), "The Prehistory and Areal Distribution of  
Slavic *gъlčěti 'speak'"

Daniel E. Collins (Ohio State University), "*o˛pir(j)- 'Vampire' as a  
(Non)problem of South Slavic Linguistics"

IXb.            Balkan  History, 2 (Buckeye III–IV)

Chair: Matthew Curtis (Ohio State University)

Paul E. Michelson (Huntington University), "Romanian Conservatism,  
1821–1923"

Natasha Margulis (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg), "Could You  
Please Stop Sending Us Rubles!  The Russo-Montenegrin Relationship in  
the 19th Century"

Liu Yong (China Youth University for Political Sciences), "The  
Romanian Channel and the Thaw of Sino-U.S. Relations"

12:15–1:45            Lunch

1:45–2:45            Plenary Session (Buckeye I–II)

X.                        SEESA Business Meeting (Elisabeth Elliott,  
President)

2:45–4:45            Parallel Panels

XIa.            Morphology and Syntax of Balkan Languages (Buckeye I– 
II)

                         Chair: James Augerot (University of Washington)

Iliana Krapova (University of Venice) and Olga Arnaudova (University  
of Ottawa), "Experiencer Constructions in the Balkan Languages"

Bojan Belić (University of Washington), "Sex, Level of Education, and  
Age of Speakers as Factors in Complement Verb Variation in Present- 
Day Serbian"

Angelo Costanzo (Ohio State University), "The Role of Borrowings in  
the Expansion of a Romanian Conjugational (Sub-)Class"

XIb.            Film and Visual Culture (Buckeye III–IV)

             Chair: Yonka Krasteva (University of Veliko Tarnovo)

Sofia Kalo (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), "Visions in  
Flux: An Analysis of Visual Artistic Expression in Post-Socialist  
Albania"

Sunnie Rucker-Chang (Ohio State University), "The Local vs. Global in  
Contemporary Serbian Film"

Ljudmila Labudović (University of Colorado-Boulder), "How the Gypsies  
Drove God Away: Powerful Magic of the Balkan Tricksters in Emir  
Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies"

Andrei Cret,u (Ohio State University), "In Stalin's Long Shadow:  
Films of the Balkan Concentrationary Universe"

4:45             Closing Remarks (Buckeye I–II)

Brian Joseph (Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics)

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