Call for Papers: Third International Conference "Perspectives on Slavistics", Hamburg, 28.-31.8.2008

[Bernhard Brehmer]

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First Call for Papers
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The Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Hamburg and the 
Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Tuebingen are pleased to 
announce the Third International "Perspectives on Slavistics" Conference. The 
conference will take place in Hamburg, Germany, on August 28-31, 2008. 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.

So far the following keynote speakers have accepted the invitation to present 
at the conference:

- Gerd Hentschel, University of Oldenburg (Germany)
- Mikhail Iampolski, New York University (USA)
- Marek Lazinski, University of Warsaw (Poland)
- Danko Sipka, Arizona State University (USA)
- Galin Tihanov, University of Manchester (UK)

Other keynote speakers are to be confirmed.

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). Presentations should be in 
English in order to open the conference up to researchers working on non-
Slavic languages and literatures. Data projectors and overhead projectors will 
be provided upon request. The deadline for submissions is March, 31, 2008 
(submission information and abstract specifications see below).

The participation fee will be 80 euros (40 euros for graduate students and 
passive participants), to be paid in advance. Detailed information on payment 
options and local arrangements will be provided by May 2008. 
The participation fee covers the abstract booklet, other conference materials, 
refreshments and snacks.

Submission information and abstract specifications:

Abstracts for 20 minute talks (plus 10 minute discussion) should:

- be anonymous;
- not exceed 500 words (plus an additional page for tables, figures and 
references, if necessary);
- use one-column format, Times New Roman, 12pt, single-spacing;
- use the international transcription of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters;
- be in Adobe PDF format (please do include all fonts in PDF documents).

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.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair Conference 
Manager at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pos3

You will be requested to enter a user name and password to enter the site. If 
you do not have an EasyChair account, enter the following URL:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/account_apply.cgi

to obtain one. Your account access information will be emailed to you.

After having logged in to the system, you will be able to submit your abstract 
by (1) providing an address for correspondence, (2) specifying the author(s), 
(3) providing the title and a short abstract in plain text (the short abstract 
should summarize the essentials of the proposal in maximally two short 
sentences), (4) specifying at least two keywords,
(5) selecting the topic relevant to your paper (literature or linguistics), and, 
finally, (6) uploading the PDF file with the full anonymous abstract, including 
the title and the abstract body.

The contact author of the paper will receive an auto-generated notification of 
receipt via email.

The abstracts must be submitted no later than March 31, 2008. 
Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by May 
5, 2008.

      
Organizing Committee:   
Bernhard Brehmer, University of Hamburg
Schamma Schahadat, University of Tuebingen
Beata Trawinski, University of Tuebingen
Annette Werberger, University of Tuebingen

Conference webpage: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/pos3
Contact: pos3 at barlach.sfb.uni-tuebingen.de

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