CFS/CFP: 2023 International Congress of Slavists

Deadline: March 15, 2022

Further details at https://linguistics.uoregon.edu/sites/linguistics1.uoregon.edu/files/acs_call_for_papers.2023.final_.pdf

The American Committee of Slavists (ACS) hereby issues a call for papers for the XVIIth International Congress of Slavists in Paris, France, August 28 — September 1, 2023, to determine the composition of the American delegation. *Please read carefully, since the eligibility criteria and requirements have changed significantly since the last Congress.* 

1. Eligibility. To be considered, an applicant must, without exception, have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline in hand by March 15, 2022, the deadline date for the submission of abstracts. It is no longer required by the ACS that applicants hold regular positions at academic institutions, but all applicants should be either resident in the U.S. or affiliated with, or hold a PhD from, a U.S. institution. 2. Application. Qualified applicants must submit (a) their current c.v. and (b) an abstract of their paper, roundtable, or poster proposal in PDF format, maximum 1,000 characters in length including spaces, by **March 15, 2022,** to the ACS Secretary, Daniel Collins, by e-mail at collins.232@osu.edu. This is a FIRM deadline. The cover email text must provide the applicant’s name, the academic institution that they are affiliated with or hold a PhD from, and the title of the presentation. Applicants are advised to follow instructions carefully in the preparation of abstracts (see point 5, Preparation of Abstracts, below). Incorrectly written or formatted abstracts will not be considered. Preference will be given to papers that are broadly comparative in nature. For templates and further details on abstract requirements and roundtable proposals, see also the International Committee of Slavists webpage: https://mksparis.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/10. 

3. Paper publication. Beginning with this Congress, the International Committee of Slavists is no longer requiring publication of papers before the Congress itself. There will be no U.S. delegation volumes anymore, and no subvention/application fees. While publication of the Congress paper is permitted before the 2023 Congress, all accepted applicants are expected to publish their 2023 Congress papers independently at any point before the submission deadline for the following International Congress, preferably in a peer-reviewed journal, and to submit a copy of the publication to the ACS. The ACS may deem an applicant ineligible for the next Congress if that applicant has not supplied it with a publication copy of the paper before then. There is no independent publication requirement for roundtable and poster proposals. 

4. Paper and poster summaries. Accepted applicants will also be required to submit to the ACS a year later, by March 15, 2023, four months before the Paris Congress, either a copy of a publication of their Congress paper, if they already have one, or a summary of their paper, two to five pages in length (a page constituting 1800 characters, including spaces). For posters, the summary should be a paragraph-length description. The summaries will be vetted and edited by the ACS paper reviewers in order to conform to the requirements of the International Committee of Slavists, and will be posted on the Congress website. A template for the summaries will be provided later by the Congress organizers on the ICS website. 

5. Preparation of abstracts. The application abstract that is due on March 15, 2022 must be written in English or a Slavic language and be a maximum of 1,000 characters in length, including spaces, single-spaced. The applicant’s name must not appear on the abstract itself. Any references should be incorporated into the text; there should be no footnotes. The application abstract to the ACS may be in English or one of the other accepted Congress languages (see section 6 below). 

6. Language of presentation and of summaries. The two- to five-page summary of the Congress presentation (due March 15, 2023, a year later) must be in the same language as the oral presentation or poster. All Slavic languages, English, German, and French are the languages accepted by the International Committee of Slavists for the summaries, presentations and posters.