Ballad Conference reminder

[nataliek at UALBERTA.CA]

Dear List members,

I am reissuing this call for papers because the deadline is just over  
2 weeks away.  Prof. Morozov of Minsk is the contact person.

The next International Ballad Conference will take place in Minsk,  
Belarus, July 13-18, 2009.  The organizer of the conference, Alexander  
Morozov, would like to expand this conference to include more general  
folklore topics and has asked me to make this call.

The conference will be titled: World Folk Heritage: Past, Present, and  
Perspective Directions of Research

Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to:

1) The history of intercultural interaction in folk and ballad art
2) National varieties of cultural values, values rooted in tradition  
and currently undergoing transformation
3) Universal values of traditional folk cultures as a basis for  
communication and cooperation
4) The art of the ballad in world folk heritage: plots, types, poetic forms.

Abstracts of up to 300 words together with requests for equipment  
should be submitted by February 28, 2009 to Prof. Morozov at  
_morozoff_ at tut.by.  Please also provide author's address, affiliation,  
contact details and a brief CV

Conference will take place in the Humanities Building of the National  
Academy of Sciences in Minsk and accommodations will be at the  
Akademicheskaia hotel (prices 30-50 euros per night).  Conference  
registration of 50 euros is payable on site.  It is anticipated the  
conference registration will take place in the afternoon of July 13  
and that the program will begin at 10AM on the 14th.  An excursion is  
planned for the 15th and a visit to the National Library is planned  
for the 17th.  A conference banquet will be held on the evening of the  
17th.

Minsk is easily accessibly by air and by ground transportation.

Prof. Morozov is the contact person for more information.

Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
Editor, Folklorica
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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