Conferences in Bulgaria:Grigorij Camblak/Jagic/Early saints

[Kjetil Ra Hauge]

The following announcement is forwarded on behalf of colleagues at Sofia U.:
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The Autmn Semester of the Department of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies
at the University of Sofia "St. Kliment of Ochrid"
16 - 25 August 1999
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Call for Papers


International Conference  "Gregory Camblak - Hesychast,
Writer,Cleric,"organized by the Department of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies at
the University of Sofia, August 16-18, 1999, Sofia.
Gregory Camblak (ca.1419) was one of the most prominent figures in late
medieval Balkan and Orthodox Slavic religious life who left remarkable
traces in Bulgarian, Serbian, Moldavian, and Russian literature. The
conference is dedicated to his life, literary andreligious activities, to
his representation in the medieval written and visual sources, to the
language and cultural significance of his works and their spread in the
Slavic cultural tradition.
The papers should not exceed 30 minutes. If your presentation includes
visual material, please indicate this in your proposal. The languages of
the conference are Bulgarian, English, Russian, German and French.Proposals
with abstracts up to the 200 words in a language other than the language of
the presentation are expected before March 1, 1999 at the following
addresses:
Prof. Dr. Ivan Dobrev, Dr. Adelina Angusheva and Dr. Andrej Bojadzhiev
Katedra po Kirilo-Metodievistika, r.144, Fakultet Slavjanski Filologii,
15 Tsar Osvoboditel, University of Sofia, 1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
e-mails: <ady at slav.uni-sofia.bg> or <ab at slav.uni-sofia.bg>
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International Conference  "Vatroslav Jagic and the Slavic
Philology"organized by the Institute of Slavistics "Vatroslav Jagic" August
19-21, 1999, Sofia.
The conference aims at elucidating the role for and contributions of the
eminent scholar Vatroslav Jagic to the development of the Slavic Philology.
The work of the conference will be organized into two main sessions: 1)
Vatroslav Jagic and the Slavic Philology, which is planned to be annual,
and 2)The Cyrillo-Methodian translations of the New Testament and their
later revisions, a specific session for this year.
The papers should not exceed 20 minutes. If your presentation includes
visual material, please indicate this in your proposal. The languages of
the conference are all Slavic languages.
Proposals with abstracts up to the 200 words in a language other than the
language of the presentation (or in Old Bulgarian/ Old Church Slavonic) are
expected before March 1, 1999 at the following addresses:
Dr. Adelina Angusheva,
Department of Cyrillo-MethodianStudies, r.144, Faculty of Slavic Studies,
15 Tsar OsvoboditelUniversity of Sofia,
1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
e-mail:ady at slav.uni-sofia.bg
Petko Petkov, Margaret Dimitrova
Seminar of PaleoslavisticsDepartment of Bulgarian
LanguagePhilological faculty South-Western University
66 Ivan Mihajlov,  2500 Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
e-mail: marg at bgnet.bg
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International Conference "Cults of Early Christian Saints From Central and
South-Eastern Europe," organized by the Institute of Slavistics "Vatroslav
Jagiã", the Department of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies at the University of
Sofia, the Seminar of Paleoslavistics at the South- Western University
(Blagoevgrad), the Department of Archeology at the University of Veliko
T"rnovo, the Association for Ethnology, Anthropology and Folklore "Ong"l",
and the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University,
August 22-24, 1999, Samokov (an town near Sofia).
The conference aims at bringing together scholars working on the cults of
early Christian saints who lived until the 6th century in Central and
South-Eastern Europe. Sessions in the fields of medieval culture and
writing, art history, archeology, ethnology, and popular culture are
planned to be organized. A visit to early Christian centers in Sofia and/or
to Rila monastery is planned for the last  day of the conference. The
papers should not exceed 20 minutes. If your presentation includes visual
material, please indicate this in your proposal. The languages of the
conference are Bulgarian, English, Russian, German and French. Proposals
with abstracts up to the 400 words in a language other than the language of
the presentation are expected before March 1, 1999 at the following
addresses:
Prof. Dr. Ivan Dobrev, Dr. Antoaneta Deleva, and Dr. Adelina Angusheva,
Department of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies, r.144 Faculty of Slavic Studies,
15 Tsar Osvoboditel, University of Sofia,
1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
e-mails: <ady at slav.uni-sofia.bg> or <tony@ slav.uni-sofia.bg>
Prof. Kazimir Popkonstantinov, Rossina Kostova
Department of Archaeology, University of Veliko T"rnovo
5000 Veliko T"rnovo, Bulgaria
e-mail: rosina at vt.bitex.com
Petko Petkov, Margaret Dimitrova
Seminar of PaleoslavisticsDepartment of Bulgarian
LanguagePhilological faculty South-Western University
66 Ivan Mihajlov,
2500 Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
e-mail: marg at bgnet.bg
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Information on these conferences could be found in the electronic journal
LINGUA MAGAZINE in INTERNET Further details will follow at a later stage.







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