Program: Southeast European Studies Association Conference

Tue Apr 26 14:57:38 UTC 2005

Southeast European Studies Association
Biennial Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 2005

Program

Thursday, April 28
1:00		Conference Opening					Holiday Inn, Salon D
		Welcoming Remarks

Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University), Distinguished University 
Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Chair of South Slavic 
Linguistics

Elisabeth Eliott (Northwestern University), President, Southeast 
European Studies Association

1:30–3:30	Parallel Sessions I					Holiday Inn
Ia: Identity and Memory in Southeast Europe			Salon D
Chair: Predrag Matejic (Ohio State University)

Gregory Jusdanis (Ohio State University), "Hellenism between 
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism"

Fedja Buric (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), "Conversing with 
the Past: Nostalgic Invocations of Socialist Yugoslavia and the 
Creation of Lieux de Memoire"

Mona Momescu (Columbia University/Ovidius University, Constanta), 
"Re-centering the Global: the Reason for and the Mechanisms of Recent 
Romanian Protochronism"

Oana Popescu-Sandu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Too 
Late for a Season of Memory?  Searching for the Communist Past in 
Canary Season (Bulgaria) and The Afternoon of a Torturer (Romania)

Ib: Historical Linguistics						Salon C
Chair: Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University)

Tania Ivanova (Ohio State University), "Lexical Variation in Two 
Manuscripts of the 14th-Century Slavic Translation of Thekara the 
Monk's Ekloge kai Suntaksis"

Andrea Sims (Ohio State University), "Paradigmatic Reshuffling: The 
Croatian Genitive Plural(s)"

Eric Hamp (University of Chicago), "Albanian darsmë 'wedding feast' and 
explanatory criteria"

3:30–3:45		Break

3:45–5:45	Parallel Sessions II					Holiday Inn

IIa: Public Policy and Conflict in Southeast Europe		Salon D	
Chair: Halina Stephan (Ohio State University)

Rossen Vassilev (Ohio State University), "Public Opinion and Bulgaria's 
Involvement in the Iraq War"

Tsveta Petrova (Cornell University), "From State Officials' Turnover to 
State Capacity Turnaround"

Claire Metelits (Northwestern University), "How Insurgents Choose 
Strategies: A Study of Changing Insurgent Behavior in Turkey"

Kendra Koivu (Northwestern University), "Democracy from Below?  The 
Changing Nature of Patron-Client Relations in Turkey"

IIb: Formal Syntax							Salon C
Chair: Elisabeth Eliott (Northwestern University)

Jelena Runic (University of Belgrade/Indiana University), "On the 
Different Interpretation of Adjectives in Romanian and Serbo-Croatian"

Bojan Belic (Ohio State University), "On Finite and Non-Finite Control 
in Serbian"

Efthymios Sipetzis (Cambridge University), "Constituent Order and the 
Licensing of Objects in the Evolution of Greek"

Anastasia Smirnova (Ohio State University), "Control Constructions in 
Bulgarian"

5:45–6:00	Break

6:00	Reception							Holiday Inn, Salon B

Friday, April 29
8:00		SEESA Business Meeting				Holiday Inn, Salon D
		Elisabeth Elliott (Northwestern University), President

8:30–10:30	Parallel Sessions III					Holiday Inn

IIIa: Literature							Salon D
Chair: Yana Hashamova (Ohio State University)

Nina A. Tyurina (Northwestern University), "Humor as a Weapon of 
Deconstruction: Young Intellectuals and Contemporary Fiction in Serbia"

Sunnie Rucker-Chang (Ohio State University), "Diagnosing 
Post-Colonialism in a Post-Yugoslav Context"

Joseph L. Benatov (University of Pennsylvania), "U.S. Literary 
Representations of Eastern Europe During the Late Cold War"

IIIb: Bulgarian Morphosyntax					Salon C
Chair: Victor Friedman (University of Chicago)

Ivelina K. Tchizmarova (Ball State University), "A Cognitive Analysis 
of the Bulgarian Verbal Prefix nad-"

John Leafgren (University of Arizona), "Verbal Adverbs and Other Verbal 
Adverbials in Contemporary Bulgarian"

Andrew Dombrowski (University of Chicago), "Active Participles in 
Stefanit i Ixnilat: The Evolution of Participial Forms in a Middle 
Bulgarian Manuscript"

Larissa Bondarchuk (Ohio State University), "Cognates in Russian and 
Bulgarian—Napravo: Is it 'to the right?' or 'straight ahead'?"

10:30–10:45	Break

10:45–12:15	Parallel Sessions IV					Holiday Inn

IVa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Post-Socialist 
Transition	Salon D
Chair: Mona Momescu (Columbia University)

Elitsa Kamenarova (University of Washington), "Southeast European 
Economics: New Forms of Investments as a Way to Assist its Development"

Basil D. Georgiadis (United States Air Force Academy), "The Romanian 
Media in Transition: A Survey of the Print Media, Television, and Radio 
from 1945–2003"

IVb: Balkan Dialectology, 1						Salon C
Chair: John Leafgren (University of Arizona)

Giorgios Tserdanelis and Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University), "A 
Comparative Balkan Phonetic Project: Justification and Benefits"

Andrei Cretu (Ohio State University), Balkan Romance Dialects and the 
Balkan Linguistic Convergence Area"

Larysa Stepanova (Ohio State University), "Onomatopoeia and 
'Expressivity"

12:15–1:45	Lunch Break

1:45-3:15	Parallel Sessions V					Main Library		
Va: Balkan Diplomatic and Economic History			Room 210
Chair:

Nicola Claire Guy (University of Durham), "Fixing the Frontiers: 
Ethnography and the Albanian Boundary Commissions of 1913–1914"

Polina Kozak (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), 
"International Normative Structure in Milosevic's Strategic 
Calculations over the NATO Air Bombing Campaign in Kosovo, 1999"

Vb: Balkan Dialectology, 2				Room 122
Chair: Daniel E. Collins (Ohio State University)

Victor Friedman (University of Chicago), "Double Your Pleasure!  Double 
Your Fun!  On Resumptive Clitic Pronouns in the Languages of 
Southeastern Europe"

Andrej N. Sobolev, "On the Turkic Loanwords in Balkan Dialects"

3:30	Eighth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture	Faculty Club
Grace Fielder (University of Arizona), "Discourse Markers as Balkanisms"

Reception								Faculty Club

Daniel E. Collins, Chair
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
400 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1340
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