call for papers

[Megan Swift]

Dear Seelangers,

The annual conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists is 
meeting this year in Vancouver, BC.  You will find the Call for Papers 
below.  Please go to the CAS website at 
http://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/cas/conference.html to find panel, paper 
and round table proposal forms, or send me an email at maswift at uvic.ca. 
  The deadline is Feb. 1 for all proposals.

All the best for the new year,

Megan Swift
Co-Chair, Program Committee
Canadian Association of Slavists
Megan Swift, Assistant Professor
Department of Germanic and Russian Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria BC.
V8W 3P4 Canada.

Tel. 250.721.7504
Fax 250.721.7319

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE


May 31-June 2, 2008
(Saturday – Monday)


University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia

CALL FOR PAPERS

The annual conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists will take 
place in Vancouver (British Columbia) on May 31- June 2, 2008 as part 
of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation.

The theme of the 2008 Congress is THINKING BEYOND BORDERS.

Proposals are invited for individual papers, panels, and roundtable 
discussions.  Proposals for complete panels are preferred. Please 
follow abstract specifications (see attached) when submitting your 
proposal(s).

We particularly want to encourage young scholars to participate in this 
conference. Deadline for proposals:  1 February 2008. Notification of 
the Program Committee’s decisions will be sent out by 3 March 2008.

ALL PRESENTERS MUST BE MEMBERS OF CAS.

For all questions, please contact Megan Swift (maswift at uvic.ca) 
(250.721.7504) or Bozena Karwowska (bozena at interchange.ubc.ca) 
(604.822.5956)
Abstract specifications:
To apply for participation in the conference, please fill out the 
respective forms (CV and individual paper proposal form; roundtable 
proposal form and/or panel proposal form).   Abstracts should not 
exceed 400 words. Please use MS Word for Windows and Times New Roman or 
MS Word for Apple and TimesCE or pure Unicode text. Make sure to use 
the Library of Congress transliteration system to render words in a 
Cyrillic alphabet. Your abstract should present a research question and 
outline your plan for investigating this scholarly problem. Each 
abstract will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Abstracts sent by 
attachment may be emailed to either Megan Swift (maswift at uvic.ca) or 
Bozena Karwowska (bozena at interchange.ubc.ca).  If electronic submission 
is not possible, send hard copies of your proposal to:

Megan Swift, Assistant Professor
Department of Germanic and Russian Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria BC.
V8W 3P4 Canada.

Tel. 250.721.7504
Fax 250.721.7319

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