| Fifteenth Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore - Berkeley Dear colleagues, It is with pleasure that I announce that the Fifteenth Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, will take place in Berkeley, California, on March 30, 31 and April 1, 2006. To view the initial call for papers, please visit http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/slavic/bss-15/ At present this site simply announces the conference and the procedures for submitting abstracts; it will of course be updated as needed in the coming months. On behalf of Ronelle Alexander, the organizer, and the organizing committee, I hope to welcome you here in Berkeley next year. For further information, contact professor Ronelle Alexander at ralex@berkeley.edu. Stiliana Milkova Conference Organizing Committee Legal and Political Solutions to Disputes over Sovereignty - From Kosovo to Quebec, Belgrade, 8-9.7.2005 Subject: International conference in Belgrade Deadline: N/A Title of the conference: "Legal and Political Solutions to Disputes over Sovereignty - From Kosovo to Quebec", 8 and 9 July 2005 Venue: Conference Hall, Law Faculty, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro The region of South Eastern Europe still remains to be contested terrain for issues lying in the core of state creation and state disintegration, secession, and succession. As durable political solutions are still pending, particularly for Serbia and Montenegro, and political processes are dynamic as ever and it is difficult to predict how they will tilt, the years of 2005 and 2006 could be decisive for the ultimate shaping of the region's landscape. Namely, by the mid of 2005, the international community will, in the case of Kosovo, assess the overall improvements with respect to the proclaimed "standards before status" policy. As for the relations between Serbia and Montenegro, 2006 will more clearly demonstrate whether the common polity is viable at all and what would be the impacts and consequences of the EU "double tracks" accession policy towards the State Union. Simultaneously, similar processes vis-à-vis the state building challenges are taking place in the region (Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina), as well as in other parts of the world. Perhaps the most prominent example is that of Quebec, but disputes over sovereignty and territory are also characteristic for Northern Ireland, Jammu and Kashmir, Basque country, Chechnya etc. For more informations, visit http://www.ius.bg.ac.yu/informacije/international_conference.htm Contact person, Miodrag Jovanovic Assistant Professor in Theory of Law and State miodrag@ius.bg.ac.yu 7th Annual Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe, SSEES, London, 16-18.2.2005 [deadline 1.8.] From: SSEES Postgraduate Conference 2006 Deadline: August 1, 2005. Dear Colleagues, The post-graduate students of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London would like to announce an international inter-disciplinary conference to be held at SSEES in February 2006. Papers are called for which broadly address issues arising from the phenomena of inclusion and exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe. We areinterested in papers that look at macro as well as micro issues relating to the theme, grand concepts as well as every day experiences. The conference will continue the tradition established by the previous conferences: "Between a Bloc and Hard Place" (London, 1999), "Eastern and Central Europe: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the future" (Warsaw, 2000), "Faith, Dope and Charity: Purity and Danger in East European Politics and Culture" (London, 2001) and "One Ring to Rule them All? Power and Power Relations in East European Politics and Societies" (Berkeley, 2002), "Four Empires and an Enlargement: States, Societies and Individuals in Central and Eastern Europe" (London, 2003), "Beyond 'Core' and 'Periphery': Towards and new understanding of Europe" (Warsaw, 2004). Held every year, the conferences have provided a forum for graduate students and other interested parties to reflect, develop ideas and an understanding of Central and Eastern Europe. The conference will be held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London between 16th -18th February 2006. We strongly encourage you to pass this information onto any colleagues or students who you think may be interested in the conference. Submissions and enquiries should be directed to the Conference Board INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION 7thAnnual International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London 16-18th February 2006 The boundary changes that have occurred in Central and Eastern Europe over the past two hundred years have been far greater than any that have taken place in Western Europe during the same period. This conference seeks to address the issues of inclusion and exclusion that have arisen from these boundary changes. The boundaries of Central and Eastern Europe have been constantly contested from within and without and continue to shift and evolve in the wake of the fall of communism. This perpetual change is reflected through the redefinitions and realignments of identities within the region. The challenge of the expansion of the European Union in the new century represents a key factor in the ongoing processes of regional realignment. Every aspect of identity within the new members, the 'old' EU countries, the candidate states, as well as the regions excluded from the process has to be reasserted in the face of these dynamics. At the heart of this evolving process of redefinition or reassertion lie the notions of "exclusion" and "inclusion". These concepts inform current debates at all levels of European society, from the attempted spread of democracy beyond the old borders, to the exclusion of minority groups from mainstream economic, political and social activity or the place of minority languages in the new enlarged Europe. The lingua franca imposed by information technology threatens to exclude those who do not have at least a passive knowledge of English. This may also contribute to a new barrier between the old, once influential intellectuals of the region and young cosmopolitan intellectuals. The re-evaluation of history, especially that of the twentieth century, may also have a destabilising impact on the old narratives and intellectual certainties that have shaped our understanding of Central and Eastern Europe. This conference is inviting young academics to submit papers that discuss the phenomena of inclusion and exclusion in the countries and regions of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, including but not limited to the following themes: Historical: Pre-communist, Communist-led and Post-communist Nationalisms, Ethnic Cleansing from the Middle Ages onwards, Jewish Emancipation, Women's Education, Women before, during and after Communism, Fascist and Communist Politics of Exclusion. Cultural: Purism, Lexical Cleansing, Rewriting History, Fine and Performance Art, Popular Culture, Media, Boundary Reshuffling and Canon Redefinition, The Impact of Poststructuralist/ Postmodern Thought, National Revival, National Collapse, Religion. Political: Power Relations and Agency, New Feminisms in Central and Eastern Europe, Migration, Political Exclusion, Security, Democratic Transformation, Integration and Hard Border Regimes. Economic: Health, Welfare and Inequality, Human Capital and the Knowledge Economy, Corruption and Informal Practices, Economic Growth and Development, Business and Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance. Social: Insiders and Outsiders in Historical Context, Minority Relations, Gender Discrimination, Poverty, Citizenship, Health and Education Reforms, Social Exclusion, The New Middle Class, Traditional Classes - Peasantry, Intelligentsia and Workers. We strongly encourage cross-cultural, cross-national and multi-disciplinary perspectives, with entries on new research methodologies welcomed. The Committee invites post-doctoral and graduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences to submit original research papers for discussion. Invitation is not limited to academics; we would also like to invite professionals with sound academic backgrounds and academic interests. Paper abstracts of up to 300 words and a curriculum vitae should be sent with full contact details (E-mail, Telephone, Postal Address) to pgconference@ssees.ac.uk and/or to 7th Postgraduate Conference, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU, UK. Presented papers should not exceed twenty minutes in length, and must be in English. The Conference will provide online training in paper presentation (live 1st November 2005). A selection of the best papers will appear in a separate Conference publication. Philosophical heritage, historical contingency and moral universality: Reception of the ICTY in ex-Yugoslavia, Paris, 30.3-1.4.2006 CALL for PAPERS Deadline: September 30, 2005. Philosophical heritage, historical contingency and moral universality: Reception of the ICTY in ex-Yugoslavia An international conference organized by: The ACI research group "Morality, Politics and International Justice viewed through the prism of the human sciences," with support from the research unit EA 738 "Crises and Borders of European Thought" of the CNRS research group "Extreme Crises" (GDR 2651), and from the "Balkans" section of the research unit UMR 8032, "Turkish and Ottoman Studies" Call for papers addressed to anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and linguists with specialization in ex-Yugoslavia and to philosophers, jurists and political scientists International criminal justice, in the form of ad hoc tribunals, incarnates an aspiration to universality within defined geographical and historical limits. Focusing on the case of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), this conference will analyze the tensions existing between the vocation of universality attached to these categories in international criminal justice and their specific anchoring in time and space. The question to which we aim to respond is: what concept(s) of justice arise(s) from this confrontation? Critical analyses of the reception of the ICTY in the former Yugoslavia, and especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina, will address the following questions: I) THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE RECEPTION OF THE ICTY in the former Yugoslavia What categories are relevant for describing this context? Should we interpret it according to an opposition between the liberalism that might underpin the ICTY and the communist or nationalist outlook dominant in the former Yugoslavia? Is not such an opposition too reductive? Can it account for the fact that Yugoslavia belongs to Europe from the perspective of its philosophical heritage, its civil-law judicial system, or its historical legacy from the second world war? We are seeking papers devoted to any of the following aspects of the ICTY's reception context : 1) The legacy of postwar trials (following World War II) : What was the nature of the purges and the trials held after 1945? What was their legal basis? Is there a legacy attached to Nuremburg and other postwar trials in Yugoslavia? Have there been philosophical or public debates analogous to those that took place in Western Europe and the United States in conjunction with the Nuremburg and Jerusalem trials? What was the role of political trials in Yugoslavia? 2) The Penal System: What were the conceptions (philosophical or otherwise) of criminal responsibility and punishment underlying the Yugoslavian judiciary system? What role have the procedures applied by the ICTY and common-law practices played in penal-code reforms, particularly in Bosnia? What are the procedures and the social effects of local war-crimes trials? 3) Local Meanings of Justice: What are the practical and theoretical problems involved in the translation of the vocabulary of justice and law from one to another of the official languages of the ICTY (BCS, English, and French)? How are we to analyze forms of discourse (as found particularly in Bosnia) that oppose justice and vengeance or, on the contrary, that represent recent deeds as revenge for past injustices? Do justice and punishment have a religious significance that varies from one community to another? We also welcome papers discussing the reception of the ICTY by particular groups: associations, political parties, religious communities, etc. II) THE INTERNATIONAL, THE NATIONAL AND THE LOCAL This tension between universality and historical contingency appears clearly in those categories of international law such as genocide and crime against humanity, which do not derive from an a priori conceptualization, but from an a posteriori elaboration on the basis of a specific historical experience, and have been extended beyond their specific juridical meaning, becoming norms for moral and political judgment. Thus, the definitions attached to genocide and crimes against humanity, as planned and systematically organized, reflect above all the nature of the crimes committed by the Nazis. How are such categories to be applied to another historical reality involving different modes of organization? Our aim is not to analyze the jurisprudence of the ICTY per se, but to undertake comparative analysis of the various philosophical, juridical, national, and local perspectives on how these categories are put into practice. How do these categories become (or fail to become) moral, political, and social norms? We seek papers that: - compare the evolution the category of genocide over the course of the different ICT judgments (whether for the ICTY or the ICTR) with local uses of the term - compare international, national, and local perspectives on ways of defining and categorizing humanity - compare the extension, on an international level, of the category of crimes against humanity to include sexual violence (taking into account the sexual dimension of humanity) with the ways in which, in Bosnia, women and associations of women define their demand for justice - compare the ICTY's discourse and practices concerning the new role of the victim in the criminal justice process with the ways in which victims and victim associations define their demand for justice and their relationship to the ICTY - compare the ICTY's principles and practices in terms of transparency with local reception of trials, particularly as concerns guilty pleas - compare the principles and practices of defense lawyers in the Hague tribunal with local practices (particularly as concerns lawyers from the former Yugoslavia) - in light of debates about the nature of the relationship between judges and historians, compare the ICTY's principles and practices concerning what constitutes proof and the establishment of truth with those of other actors: journalists, historians, witnesses, expert witnesses, national and international missing-person commissions, etc. Given the broad scope of this last question, we will give priority to papers discussing specific cases, particularly cases involving ICTY investigations and trials concerning the regions of Prijedor and Srebrenica and their local reception. We also welcome papers comparing the ICTY and the ICTR in light of these questions. When and where: - Conference dates: March 30 to April 1, 2006 - Place: PARIS (at several sites to be specified at a later date) - Deadline for submission of proposals : September 30, 2005 (participants seeking to have their travel expenses paid for by the organizers should contact us by the 15th of August) - Announcement of proposals selected by the organizing committee: October 20, 2005 - The final version of conference papers are to be sent electronically no later than March 1, 2006. Papers must be no longer than 50,000 signs. Papers may be delivered in French or English. Details for submission: Send your proposal to: Isabelle.Delpla@univ-montp3.fr with a copy (cc) to idelpla@free.fr Proposals may be submitted in French or English and must include the following information: Name: Institution of affiliation: Title/Status: Email: Contact address to which all correspondence is to be sent: Telephone number: --------------------------------- Paper title : Summary (four lines maximum): Abstract (between 2000 et 5000 signs maximum, spaces included): Key words: For all queries concerning the content of conference debates, send an email to Isabelle.Delpla@univ-montp3.fr with a copy (cc) to idelpla@free.fr CFP: The Politics of Friendship, Granada, April 2005 Deadline: check at the web site The workshop on the politics of friendship will be held on April 14-19,2005 in Granada, organized by Preston King and Oleg Kharkhordin. It will happen as part of the annual sessions of the European Consortium for Political Research, and the opportunity to get together people thinking about friendship at a major professional political science forum is quite a breakthrough. We think of having many scholars concerned with issues of the politics of friendship - In fact, the goal is to make the ancients' thinking on friendship relevant for contemporary world once again, and to reflect on contemporary issues of friendship in politics and politics in friendship. As you might know, ECPR is different from many other professional associations (like APSA, for example) in that it really offers an opportunity to have an intense 3-4 days of meetings of about 15 people working on the same topic and discussing pre-circulated papers, and this event happens only once - the workshop themes are not repeatable (the idea is that afterwards people will communicate among themselves in any case, having established initial interest in each other) The deadline for the abstract submission is Dec. 1, but one should submit a text by April 1. For details on how to do it, please check out http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/granada/participant_app_info.htm Participants from ECPR member universities (most EU universities and some US universities are in this list) get partial reimbursement for workshop attendance. Should you recommend your grad students or recent PhDs for workshop participation also, they may be funded by ECPR in too, since there are special mobility funds for that (they should check out the ECPR website links). Non-ECPR members have to pay $250 attendance fee, though. a more detailed description of this workshop can be also found at the ECPR website- http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/granada/workshop_list.aspx#ws15 Oleg Kharkhordin Associate Professor Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology European University at St. Petersburg 3, Gagarinskaia street 191187 St. Petersburg, Russia tel/fax 7-812-2755133 http://www.eu.spb.ru Call for Papers-International Security Studies Yale University The Age of Rage: Hatred and Violence in International History(April 1, 2005, Yale) Deadline: December 15, 2004. If the twentieth century, as Eric Hobsbawm described it, was an "Age of Extremes," this young twenty-first century seems already to be marked by its hatreds. But are the forces that dominate contemporary affairs actually new? Do the challenges of previous centuries offer any insights for a world defined by terrorism and the war thereon? On April 1, 2005, International Security Studies at Yale University will sponsor a conference in New Haven, Connecticut, to discuss those questions. This conference will explore how hatred-personal as well as ideological-has shaped the historical dynamics of peace, war,and politics. We intend to consider the ways that hatred becomes a social and political force, the ways it relates to local and international stability, the ways it motivates and frustrates collective action, and the ways it informs agendas and boundaries. We will seek to examine the differences between self-contained rivalries and threats to international order, between popular conflict and ethnic violence, between visceral furies and ideological programs. We aim to analyze the impact of demagoguery, the nature of grassroots aggression, the dynamics of the "cycle of violence," and the possibility of negotiated resolutions. We hope to reevaluate the concepts of "political violence," of local and national self-defense, of minority and majority rights, of nationalism and identity. Historians and commentators are more inclined today to credit the power of hatred than they have been in the past. This conference means to raise questions about what they may have failed to credit before, and why they may have done so. We aim to be thematic, comparative, and interdisciplinary, and we particularly encourage submissions from younger scholars and doctoral students in history and political science. Presentations will be fifteen to twenty minutes long. Please e- mail a CV and a 300-word proposal to Dan Cunnane cdaniel.cunnane@yale.edu) by December 15, 2004. Possible topics include: Hatred, Violence, and Nations Hatred, Empire, and Colonialism Ethnic Conflict War and Occupation Violence and Human Rights Historical Revisionism Local Conflict and International Order Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide Revolution and Counterrevolution Patterns of Totalitarianism Terrorism Anti-Americanism "Peace" Processes Location: New Haven, Connecticut/Online Deadline: December 15, 2004 Website: http://www.yale.edu/iss/ CALL FOR PAPERS Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Graduate Student Conference - April 8-9, 2005 Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Identities, Institutions and Inequalities Deadline: December 16, 2004 This conference offers an opportunity for graduate students pursuing scholarship in international and regional studies to move beyond the disciplinary boundaries that structure our approaches and thoughts, and to engage in inter-disciplinary interaction and conversation on a range of salient political, social and epistemological issues. Please submit abstracts of 400-500 words online at www.princeton.edu/~gradconf by December 16. Abstracts should specify methodological approach, with the goal of communicating to inter- disciplinary audiences, and include a short bibliography (not included in word count). Questions can be sent to gradconf@princeton.edu. www.princeton.edu/~gradconf - - Soliciting papers from graduate students in anthropology, economics, international law, history, sociology, political science, and philosophy - - Limited number of travel grants offered - - Publication of papers will be considered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Call for Submissions - The Society for the Anthropology of Europe is accepting submissions for our forthcoming series, European Anthropology in Translation, in partnership with Berghahn Books. Deadline: February 1, 2005. The targeted submission is of a very specific type, and we will only be looking at those submissions that appear at first glance to satisfy our most basic parameters for the series. We would like to receive submissions from: --European anthropologists/ethnologists. --Working in Europe, broadly defined. --In possession of manuscripts previously published in their native language. --Preferably capable of translating (or arranging the translation of their work. --Owning the international rights to said manuscript. Interested in reaching an American audience, covering issues of broad relevance to American colleagues, moving beyond an audience of specialists in a field/topic/area. If you believe yourself to be in possession of these attributes, we would enjoy hearing from you during a preliminary selection round intended to produce a handful of candidates for our first volume in the series. Please outline the following (in English): --One paragraph (150-200 word) biography. --One paragraph (150-300 word) abstract of your volume. --One paragraph (150-300 word) outline of your manuscript's attraction for American ethnographers. How does it fill a perceived lack in our perception of the society/culture you study? --One paragraph addressing the publishing history of your manuscript and its legal status. --One paragraph addressing your translation skills, or other avenues you would pursue. Due to the anticipated high volume of submissions, any proposals that do not fulfill these requirements will be summarily rejected (though you may resubmit). Failure to send your proposal by the deadline of February 1, 2005, will also be cause for summary rejection. Please send your proposal electronically to the contact information provided below: No attachments, please! Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D. Editor, Chair for Special Projects and Publications Society for the Anthropology of Europe susanmazur@hotmail.com Immigration balkanique : une immigration invisible ? Colloque organisé par LE COURRIER DES BALKANS -Jeudi 20 janvier 2004 Centre International de Culture Populaire 21 ter rue Voltaire 75 020 PARIS Deadline: December 15, 2004 Depuis la chute des régimes communistes, l'ouverture - relative - des frontières, puis les guerres en ex-Yougoslavie ont provoqué d'importants flux migratoires. La paupérisation continue des sociétés du sud-est de l'Europe ne fait qu'accroître le nombre de candidats à l'émigration vers l'Ouest. Certains phénomènes, tels l'arrivée de centaines de Roms roumains en région parisienne ou encore la découverte du nombre croissant de mineurs isolés en provenance des Balkans ont provoqué un émoi dans l'opinion publique, alors que cette immigration reste en France mal connue. Dans le même temps, les Balkans sont de très longue date une terre d'émigration et les diasporas balkaniques jouent un rôle politique et social majeur, par leurs capacités économiques (transferts de fonds, voire investissements dans les pays d'origine) et leur influence politique. Les nationalismes balkaniques contemporains ont en bonne part été élaborés dans les milieux diasporiques. En France, l'immigration d'origine balkanique demeure relativement marginale, malgré l'existence de quelques communautés implantées de longue date. Mais les dix dernières années ont vu arriver un nombre croissant de nouveaux migrants. Par ailleurs, en tant qu'immigration européenne, elle paraît relativement peu visible. Pourtant, les problèmes (économiques, identitaires ou culturels) rencontrés par les migrants sont multiples. Le phénomène des migrants temporaires est par ailleurs fréquent. A ce titre, il convient de s'interroger sur les modes d'intégration de cet ensemble de personnes en France. Quels sont leurs besoins et ceux des acteurs français? Quelle est la situation actuelle et, surtout, quelles sont les perspectives sur les dix prochaines années? Peut-on dégager divers types d'intégration (individuelle, collective) ou au contraire de non-intégration, selon divers vecteurs (lieu d'habitation, espace public, travail, école, lieux de culte, sports) ? Quelles sont les relations entre diverses communautés nationales des Balkans en France? Ces communautés sont-elles homogènes ou fragmentées? Cette manifestation a pour but de confronter recherches universitaires et acteurs institutionnels et associatifs pour entamer une réflexion plus large et plus approfondie sur : l'histoire récente de cette immigration, l'organisation des migrants, leurs modes d'intégration (langue, identité, difficultés économiques, etc. ) Ces questions seront abordées au cours de trois tables rondes thématiques consécutives, réunissant chacune quatre intervenants et un modérateur. Les présentations, brèves, ouvriront la discussion publique. Les actes du colloque seront diffusés sur le site du Courrier des Balkans (www.balkans.eu.org). Les intervenants doivent fournir un texte, version électronique, de 20000 signes maximum synthétisant leur intervention (6 à 7 pages en simple interligne). En complément, des articles de la presse balkanique seront publiés sur le site Internet du Courrier des Balkans alimentant la rubrique « Migrations » et la base de donnée documentaire du colloque. Cette manifestation a reçu le soutien du Fond d'Action et de soutien pour l'intégration et la lutte contre les discriminations (FASILD) Information et envoi des résumés (avant le 15 décembre) : Anne Madelain anne.madelain@free.fr tel : 01 42 49 68 85 Amaël Cattaruzza amaelc@orange.fr tel : 06 70 57 08 01 Le Courrier des Balkans, association loi 1901 Centre Marius Sidobre, 26 rue Emile Raspail - 94 110 Arcueil balkans@balkans.eu.org www.balkans.eu.org Summer Course on Refugee Issues, 10-19.6.2005, Toronto Deadline: 31 March 2005. The Centre for Refugee Studies' Summer Course offers postgraduate training in refugee issues for up to seventy practitioners inside and outside government who work on some aspect of refugee protection or assistance. The course includes panel discussions, case studies, a simulation exercise, and lectures from experts in the field, both local and international. A York University/Centre for Refugee Studies. Certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the eight-day program. A preliminary list of topics covered in the course includes: - Root Causes and Consequences of Forced Displacement - Ethics of Forced Migration - The UNHCR - Interdiction - Cultural Psychology of Refugees - The Convention Refugee Definition in current contexts Statelessness - Internally Displaced Persons - Globalization and Refugees - Public Health Response in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies - International Trafficking - Recourse to International Legal Instruments and Mechanisms - In-land and Overseas Resettlement Processes - Refugees and Human Rights - Refugee Education - Transnationalism - State Border Security in the Post-9/11 Era, and - Diaspora Issues: short and long-term Level: professional , post-graduate Location: Toronto, Canada Participants: up to fifty practitioners inside and outside government who work on some aspect of refugee protection or assistance. Tuition, fee, lodging: Course Fee: $850 (after 31 March 2005: $ 950). Fees are in Canadian dollars and include materials. Food and accommodation are extra. Reasonably priced accommodation and food are available on campus. Partial subsidies are available for low-income participants. A limited number of internships, including full course subsidy, are available for York University graduates or law school students. Deadline for subsidy and internship application is 31 March 2005. Contact Information: Bruce Collet Summer Course Director Centre for Refugee Studies York University Suite 315, York Lanes 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 CANADA Tel: +1 416 736-5423 Fax: +1 416 736-5837 E-mail: summer@yorku.ca Web: http://www.yorku.ca/crs/ Call for journal contribution on Film and Folklore Deadline: ASAP Western Folklore, the academic journal of the California Folklore Society, is soliciting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will focus on the relationship between Film and Folklore. Submissions on the following or related topics are particularly welcome: * Folklore representation in film and television; including myth, Märchen, legend, folksong and ballad, belief and custom, etc. * Film and television texts as folkloristic forms; including issues of variant texts, dissemination of beliefs/narratives, film/television as storytelling, etc. * Audience ethnographies/fan studies * Ethnographic (documentary) films Children's media and its relationship to folklore Deadline for 200-word abstracts is January 30, 2005 and completed papers (5000 - 6000 words) submitted by May 1, 2005. Please send attachments in Microsoft Word to Mikel J. Koven, Special Editor, mik@aber.ac.uk, or Sabina Magliocco, Editor sabina.maglioco@csun.edu, or hard copy to: Sabina Magliocco, Editor, Western Folklore; Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge; 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330-8244. Submissions should conform to the Social Sciences format, Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. http://www.artlore.net/2004_11_01_archives.html#110065012941877583 |
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