Call for Papers

[Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie]

The Slavic and East European Folklore Association, an AAASS affiliate, issues an annual call for papers for the AAASS Conference. Participation in our panels does not require SEEFA membership. We particularly welcome participation from specialists in other fields of study, such as literature, anthropology, history. We are calling for proposals for the following panel topics for AAASS 2009 in Boston:

1) Speaking Lives (in keeping with the AAASS conference theme of Reading and Writing Lives), with a focus on oral narratives and oral literature of all types (ballad, legend, tale, epic, etc.). Papers can focus on any aspect of these genres and/or their intersection with written literature or with other fields of study. We envision that this topic will likely engender a series of related panels with various subtitles/subthemes.
2) Magic Folklore: Incantations, Ritual and Sorcery
3) Neopaganism in the Slavic World
4) Teaching Folklore to Undergraduates

If you would like to submit a proposal for these panels, please submit a AAASS c.v. form (available online at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/convention/2009-cfp.pdf) and a title and abstract of your proposed paper by January 9 to Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby at j.rouhier at uky.edu<mailto:j.rouhier at uky.edu>
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Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Associate Professor of Russian and Linguistics
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Division of Russian and Eastern Studies
1055 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY  40506
(859) 257-1756
j.rouhier at uky.edu<mailto:j.rouhier at uky.edu>
www.uky.edu/~jrouhie<http://www.uky.edu/~jrouhie>

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