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09.12.2008 29th Annual Slavic Forum University of Chicago May 8-9, 2009 The graduate students in the Slavic Department at the University of Chicago issue a call for papers for the 29th Annual Slavic Forum.  The conference will be held on the University of Chicago campus on May 8-9, 2009.   All submissions dealing with Slavic studies are encouraged, including linguistics, literature, art, history, anthropology, and interdisciplinary.  Panel themes will be determined by the Slavic Forum committee following acceptance of papers to the conference. Past panels have included topics such as Slavic Linguistics, Text and Image, Space and Time, and Slavs Abroad.  Past papers have included: "Andrei Drozin's Evening of Plastika, World of People and Objects: The Role of Plastika in Acting Training," "Conceptual Overlaps and Formal Gaps in Gombrowicz and Borges," "Day as Ritual: Temporal Perspective in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," "On the Development of Syllabic Liquids in East South Slavic," and "Realization of Predicate in Czech Distributive Verbs." All talks are 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.  Keynote speaker TBA. Please submit abstracts (250 words) to slavicforum@gmail.com by February 15th, 2009. All abstracts should be sent as attachments in Word or PDF.  Examples and references are not included in the word count.  Please put your name and affiliation at the top of the abstract but not in the body, so that we may make them anonymous for refereeing and easily identify them afterwards.  All abstracts will be refereed and participants will be notified by early March. « back to News archive print this page email this page