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

[horvat igor]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     Call for papers. Red-Letter
> Days in Transition. Oslo, 7?8
> November 2009
> 

> *
> *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
> <mailto: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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