Call for papers. Red-Letter Days in Transition. Oslo, 7�8 November 2009

[Karen Gammelgaard]

Dear colleagues,

We hope you will be interested in the workshop in Oslo on Friday,  
November 7, and Saturday, November 8, 2009:

The research group “Red-Letter Days in Transition” invites proposals  
for papers on topics relevant to the research project “Red-Letter Days  
in Transition. Calendric Public Rituals and the Articulation of  
Identities: Central Europe and the Balkans 1985 to the Present”.  
Preferred topics will include national days, commemorative holidays  
and politically significant red-letter days; however, the scope need  
not be restricted to these specific days.

Papers should focus on public discourse relating to these red-letter  
days and their role in the transition period, rather than on their  
ethnographic content, and should preferably be based on primary  
sources from the region. We particularly encourage text-oriented  
approaches. We are also interested in the theoretical underpinnings of  
studying red-letter days in the transition period.

Submission deadline: June 1, 2009.

For information on the research project, please see http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/kor/index.html

We welcome contributions in all disciplines relevant to the project.  
The organizers of the workshop will attempt to secure publication of  
selected papers.

Proposals should be submitted for a 20-minute presentation delivered  
in English plus 10-minute discussion.

Abstracts should be at most 1 page in length, including examples and  
references, using a 12pt font with 1-inch (2.5 cm) margins on all four  
sides. All examples and quotations in the languages of Central Europe  
and the Balkans must be translated into English.

Submissions in English (in pdf format) should be sent to the following  
address:
a.m.banach at ilos.uio.no
There is no participation fee, and refreshments and a light lunch are  
provided on both days. Travel and accommodation is at the  
participants' expense.


Important dates:
— Submission deadline: June 1, 2009
— Notification of acceptance: June 19, 2009
— Workshop dates: November 7–8, 2009

Karen Gammelgaard
professor

Institutt for litteratur, områdestudier og europeiske språk (ILOS)
Pb. 1003, NO-0315 Oslo
Universitetet i Oslo
tlf. nr. 22 85 67 95

Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages
Pb. 1003, NO-0315 Oslo
University of Oslo, Norway
+ 47 22 85 67 95; fax + 47 22 85 68 87

http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/om-instituttet/ansatte/vit/gammelga.xml


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