Last Call for Papers: Third International Conference "Perspectives on Slavistics", Hamburg, 28.-31.08.2008

[Bernhard Brehmer]

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Last Call for Papers

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 Conference "Perspectives on Slavistics". 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.

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

- Patrice Dabrowski, Harvard University (USA)
- Gerd Hentschel, University of Oldenburg (Germany)
- Mikhail Iampolski, New York University (USA)
- Marek Lazinski, University of Warsaw (Poland)
- Karel Oliva, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
- Danko Sipka, Arizona State University (USA)
- Galin Tihanov, University of Manchester (UK)

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.

There will be a special session on Electronic Resources of Slavic 
Languages.The aim of the special session is to provide a forum for exchange 
of information regarding the recent developments in the composition and 
design, construction and use of different types of resources for Slavic 
languages. We encourage submissions reporting on, but not limited to:

- corpora (large and small, general and genre-specific, annotated and non-
annotated, single language and parallel corpora, spoken and written language 
corpora, treebanks);
- wide-coverage grammars;
- computational lexicons, electronic terminology databases, dictionaries
(mono-  and multilingual);
- speech collections;
- wordnets, framenets, ontologies;
- tools for acquisition, construction, annotation and management of language 
resources.

Each paper submitted to the conference 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 (Linguistics, Literature or 
Resources), (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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