CfP: Recognizing and Imagining the Slavic in Culture, Society and Language

[Genevieve Cloutier]

Recognizing and Imagining the Slavic in Culture, Society and Language
Academic conference organized by 
Réseau québécois d’études slaves / Quebec Network for Slavic Studies
to be hosted by McGill University and Université du Québec à Montréal,
Montreal, Canada
March 24-25, 2011

Faculty, independent scholars, graduate and post-graduate students are
invited to submit paper proposals on the topic of the creation and
assimilation of literary, intellectual and popular notions and images of the
Slavic world: its peoples, cultures, languages, etc. How do the Slavic
peoples see themselves and their cultures? How are they perceived in other
cultures? Papers may focus on any geographical or cultural area of the
Slavic world (Russia, Ukraine, Poland, etc.) and on any time period.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:

- Slavic archetypes in art and literature
- Cultural transfers and their different forms and channels: borrowing,
appropriation, influences, etc.
- Problems of translation to and from Slavic languages
- Slavic histories: orality, construction, dissemination
- The impact of the historical events of the last two decades on the
evolution of the field of Slavic Studies.
- The empirical realities vs the constructed nature of the “Slavic world”
- Linguistic and socio-linguistic aspects of Slavic national identity formation
- Construction of Slavic images and identities in the social, political and
artistic practice and discourse
- Geopolitical and economic peculiarities of the Slavic countries from
historical, contemporary and comparative perspectives
- The Slavic world in conflict with itself or “others” in politics and culture
- The Slavic world in Quebec and Canada taken in its cultural, linguistic,
historical and other aspects

The conference is open to scholars from Quebec and beyond. Paper proposals
in French or English (approximately 300 words) are to be submitted to
qnss.rqes at gmail.com by January 15, 2011.

Web site: http://rqes.wordpress.com/

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