AAASS: Contested Ethnicities and Languages

[Curt F. Woolhiser]

Dear SEELANGers,

A colleague and I are looking for additional participants for a panel on
contested ethnicities and languages for the AAASS convention in New Orleans. A
brief description of the panel follows:

Contested Ethnicities and Languages in the Slavic World

This panel will focus on emerging and/or contested ethnolinguistic groups in
the Slavic world (e.g. Kashubians, Rusyns, Lemkos, Polesians, Podlasians,
Silesians, Moravians, etc.), addressing such issues as language and
ethnic/regional/social identity, the rise (and in some cases, fall) of regional
movements and regionalist discourses in the Slavic-speaking countries both
within and outside the European Union, the creation of new Slavic literary
(micro-)languages, and the political, cultural, ideological and socio-economic
factors influencing these processes. Papers may represent work in one or more
of the following disciplines: sociolinguistics, anthropology, ethnography,
sociology and political science.

If you would be interested in reading a paper on this panel, please e-mail me
(cwoolhis at fas.harvard.edu) with a tentative title and a short CV by January 11.

Best regards,

Curt Woolhiser

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Curt Woolhiser
Preceptor in Slavic Languages
Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
Harvard University
12 Quincy St., Barker Center
Cambridge, MA 02138-3879 USA

Tel. (617) 495-3528
Fax (617) 496-4466
email: cwoolhis at fas.harvard.edu
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