CFP: 19th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society

DEADLINE: March 29th, 2024 We invite abstracts for the 19th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society which will take place at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah (USA) on August 15-17, 2023. We are pleased to announce that our invited speakers will be: Stephen Dickey (University of Kansas) Franc Marušič - Lanko (University of Nova Gorica) Andrea Sims (The Ohio State University) Papers dealing with any aspect of Slavic linguistics and within any theoretical framework or methodology are welcome. All talks will be 20 minutes in length with 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be written in English. The abstract itself should be anonymous (no identifying information, e.g., name, affiliation, self-reference). Abstracts should be emailed to sls2024atBYU@gmail.com in PDF format, with any non-standard fonts embedded. Submissions are limited to one single-authored and one jointly authored abstract per applicant. The body of the email should include the following: author name(s) author affiliation(s) author status (faculty, graduate student, etc.); abstracts with student authors are automatically entered into consideration for student travel awards and the annual Townsend award We invite submissions for individual papers for general sessions and panel proposals for thematic sessions. Abstracts for individual papers should be limited to 500 words, not including figures or references. Panel proposals should provide (1) an abstract for the whole panel limited to 1000 words, (2) a list of the names, emails and affiliations of the panel participants and (3) titles of the talks in the panel. Conference panels will be 2 hours, so panel proposals will typically include 4 (or 8) individual presenters who will give 20-minute talks followed by discussion. An active SLS membership will be required for presenting at the annual meeting but is not required at the time of initial abstract submission (join/renew here). For additional conference details as they become available, see the conference website: https://ling.byu.edu/sls-2024 Deadline for paper abstracts and panel proposals: March 29th Notification of acceptance: April 30th SLS-19 is an in-person conference. Online participation will only be considered as an exception under very specific circumstances (e.g., travel or visa restrictions). Any request for online participation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. If any authors are likely to need a letter of support for visa applications or funding purposes, please make a note at time of abstract submission. Sincerely, The local organizing committee (Jeff Parker, Rob Reynolds, Grant Lundberg)

CFP: DiSlaw

Deadline: April 28, 2021

 

About the journal: DiSlaw (Didaktik slawischer Sprachen) is a multilingual, subject-specific language journal for Slavic foreign and heritage languages in German-speaking countries. As a theoretically well founded and practice-oriented journal, DiSlaw targets everybody who is concerned with teaching Slavic foreign and heritage languages. Further information is available here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/slawistik/dislaw/index.html.en

Call for Papers (DiSlaw): MOTIVATION

 

Motivation is a phenomenon each and every one of us is confronted with on a daily basis. For more than three decades research has had its focus on motivation in the field of (foreign) language teaching and learning, especially in applied linguistics, social psychology and (foreign) language education. In this context, L2 motivation research has produced a large array of different models and theories regarding different motives for learning (foreign) languages and questions on how to generate and maintain motivation in the learning process (Dörnyei & Ryan 2015; Lamb et al. 2019; Legutke 2017; Riemer & Wild 2016, Ushioda 2013).

 

In spite of the recent profound engagement with the theme of motivation in the field of (foreign) language education, this research area has now become even more relevant: the Covid-19-pandemic has led to new learning settings such as online and distance learning or home schooling. These new settings again raise questions about fostering and maintaining the motivation of language learners and teachers. These questions need to be brought to the centre of public and academic attention.

 

For this reason, the first issue of the newly founded open access journal DiSlaw (Didaktik der Slawischen Sprachen) is dedicated to the topic of motivation with the aim of stimulating discourse on motivation from the perspective of teaching and learning Slavic languages. The first issue of DiSlaw will not only focus on motivational aspects of online learning, but also deal with general questions regarding motivation in the (foreign) language classroom, as well as the motivational design of teaching and learning processes.

 

As a theoretically well-founded and practice-oriented journal, DiSlaw is looking for both academic contributions as well as techniques that bolster motivation for both teachers and students learning (slavic) languages.

 

The following topics may serve as orientation, but do not exclude other aspects on motivation in (foreign) language research:

• Motivation & communication 
• Motivation & (digital) media
• Motivation & emotion
• Motivation & demotivation
• Motivation & language of origin
• Motivating teaching/learning methods (e.g. task-based/scenario-based language education) or environments
• Motivation & feedback / performance assessment
• Motivation & regional aspects, institutional frameworks, needs analysis

 

Please send the title (working title) and an abstract of approximately 250 words to the following address by 28 April 2021 at the latest: redaktion-DiSlaw-Slawistik@uibk.ac.at.

Abstracts must be written in one of the languages listed below.

 

Please indicate in which of these languages you will write your contribution and include a short biographical statement about yourself in the abstract (institutional affiliation, function/area of work, research interests).

 

Each contribution and a second abstract in English must be submitted by 31 July 2021 at the very latest, as the first issue of DiSlaw will be published this year. Further information on the length of the contribution as well as the style sheet will be made available in June 2021 at the following address: http://slawistik.uibk.ac.at/dislaw

 

Possible languages for your contribution: Bosnian, Croatian, English, German, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian

CFP: “From Perestroika to Putin and the Pandemic: Russian humour since the mid-1980s to the present”

Deadline: Feb 28, 2021

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, an internationally indexed open access journal based in Poland, publishes original research papers that contribute to the development of two disciplines: Linguistics and Literary Studies related to Russian culture. A special issue of our journal (2022, vol. XLVII/ 1) aims to publish articles on the topic:

“From Perestroika to Putin and the Pandemic: Russian humour since the mid-1980s to the present”

1) Scope of the special issue and the relevance of the subject:

The term ‘humour’ tends to be used in many different ways. Sometimes its meaning is treated very broadly and is identified with the comic, although many forms of humour are more easily associated with seriousness, melancholy or even sadness. Representations of this phenomenon are known from the works of Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Zoschenko, Abram Terts, Grigori Gorin or Fazil Iskander. Humour can be also found in many forms of cultural expression, such as satire, film comedies, anekdoty, internet memes, etc. In the Russian context it often brings to mind well-grounded theoretical approaches (e.g. Mikhail Bakhtin, Vladimir Propp), popular authors (Igor Guberman, Mikhail Zhvanetsky), certain themes (politics, human vices, stereotypes), genres or stylistic devices (estradnyj yumor, evreyskiy yumor, menippea, sarcasm, cynicism, obscenity, hyperbole).

This special issue of Studia Rossica Posnaniensia (2022, vol. XLVII/ 1) wants to uncover new perspectives on the research of humour and satire from the Perestroika all the way to Putin and the corona virus pandemic. In these trying times it seems important to recall that both forms have had a long history in the development of Slavonic literatures, languages and cultures. They have always been and remained one of the important carriers of the reflection on the most essential questions concerning human existence. We would like to continue the discussion on the complexity of the topic in all its variations, inviting multiple perspectives in its study, including new theoretical considerations, experimental methodologies, comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. It is clearly not a saturated subject of study or a case, which is in any way “closed”. In this special issue, we plan to focus on humour and satire in the late Soviet era and in the subsequent decades, as these are periods that are less widely studied, but their analysis can offer a new understanding of the past and the present. This is evident, for instance, in the popularity of Soviet tropes in internet memes or in unique genre forms coexisting with, controlling or competing with conventions in postmodern and contemporary fiction. One of such phenomena is gossmekh, humour appropriated by the state that presumably appeals to the taste of the masses[1], which can be seen as the counterpart of Soviet dissident humour. Whereas some may dismiss this type of humour as “unfunny” or lacking social criticism, the immense popularity of Soviet film in the 21st century, for example, calls for a closer look at the relevance of humour beyond dissident works. Other issues yet to be explored are, for example, how far the division between gossmekh and dissident humour helps us understand humour (or not) and also if, in today’s Russia, humorous cultural expressions targeted at the masses can be considered gossmekh or another term needs to be worked out.

Recent studies on the topic show both the relevance of the subject and its popularity. The publication, in Russia and abroad, of countless collections of Soviet jokes has resulted in the popularisation of some myths, such as the notion that Soviet humour and satire somehow played a part in the demise of the Soviet Union or even gave citizens a form of political power[2]. Research in the afterlife of Stalin jokes, in turn, shows how the same jokes were “recycled” all the way to the Putin era, with the subject of the joke being randomly interchanged to even include dissident figures, providing parody and social relief in difficult times. “The transformation shows how dangerous it is to use jokes as a source of information either about reality or about people’s attitudes to this reality”[3].

2) Possible topics and areas of discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New theoretical considerations touching upon today’s understanding of satire, hybridization of generic conventions, fundamental models and concepts of the comic and humour in Russian culture;
• The 21st century reception of Soviet humour, such as that of Faina Ranevskaya’s aphorisms in the internet, or the reception of Soviet heritage on YouTube and other online platforms;
• New perspectives on social humour: gender, class and ethnic relations, taboos, anekdoty about New Russians, “corona” jokes;
• Political and historical verse of the 1980ies, 1990ies, 2000 – ad-hominem-satire (satires on Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Chernomyrdin, Zyuganov, Zhirinovsky, but also Clinton, Kohl etc.);
• Genres, styles and media: gariki, gubariki, dvushki, aphorisms, short stories, fables, kukly;
• Humour in Russian comedies as the adaptation of the tradition, e.g. Gogol’s caricatures and absurd or the visual manner of Charlie Chaplin etc. (Muratova, Surikova, Bortko, Todorovsky, Rogozhkin);
• Intertextuality as the development of subplots, motifs and literary tradition in contemporary texts of culture (Korolev, Pelevin, Sorokin, Krusanov, Aksenov etc.);

3) Deadlines and organization of the editorial process:

Submission of abstracts: 28.02.2021

Decision of the editors’ committee: 15.03.2021

Submission of complete articles: 31.08.2021

Results of peer reviews: 30.10.2021

Submission of revised articles: 02.01.2022

Publication of the issue: 30.06.2022

Languages of submissions: Russian, German, English and Polish;

Abstracts (1000-1500 characters, in the language of the article) should be sent by email to the editors of the volume: Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr Michael Düring (dueringm@slav.uni-kiel.de), Dr Elisa Kriza (elisa.kriza@uni-bamberg.de), Prof. UAM Dr hab. Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak (beata.waligorska@amu.edu.pl) by February 28, 2021;

We kindly ask you to submit complete papers (25,000-40,000 characters with spaces including bibliography) through the OJS platform at https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/strp/login

Editorial guidelines can be found at:

https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/strp/about/submissions

More information about the journal is available at the journal’s website: http://srp.amu.edu.pl/en/about-the-journal/

Call for Abstracts: American Hungarian Educators Association 2020 Conference

Deadline: February 15, 2020 


The American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA) will hold its 45th Annual Conference from June 25-27, 2020at the University of Pécs, Hungary. We welcome participation by academics, independent scholars, educators, and graduate students and all who are devoted to the teaching, research, and dissemination of Hungarian culture, history, folklore, literature, language, fine arts, and music. This year’s Conference theme: Cultural Crossroads.

Papers dealing with all aspects of interaction between Hungarians and others, between Hungarians and Hungarian communities abroad, with international contacts and scientific and internet-based communications.

Abstracts should consist of 200-250 words, a title (no more than 135 characters in length including spaces); specify the type of presentation (paper, panel, or workshop); all authors on the paper, a brief scholarly biography(for each author), including degrees and scholarly fields (50-100 words) and email contact information. Abstracts must be submitted online here by February 15, 2020.

The Program Committee will review abstracts for acceptance. The primary language of the conference is English. Abstracts in the Hungarian language are welcome.


Abstracts in the following categories are invited:
Paper Presentation Individual paper presentations describe original research by the author. Twenty minutes is allotted for the paper and ten minutes for discussion.
Panel Discussion is a forum for interactive discussion of a topic among a panel of experts. Typically, a panel of two or three speakers makes introductory remarks.The audience is then invited to make comments and question the panel.Panel discussions are scheduled for 60 minutes and run concurrently with other sessions.

Workshops provide training on a specific skill, technique or process and may involve one or more instructors. Workshops are intended to emphasize learning through participation, discussion and “hands-on” activities. Workshop organizers must specify an upper limit on attendance. Workshops are scheduled for 90 minutes.