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An interesting call for papers from the JOE-List:

The Departments of Slavic Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Universität Regensburg are pleased to announce the Second International Perspectives on Slavistics Conference. The conference will take place in Regensburg, Germany, September 21-24, 2006.

The goals of the conference are to encourage
the study of Slavic languages and literatures and to establish
connections among scholars working in these areas. There will be
three parallel sections, two focusing on literature and cultural
studies, the third one reserved for linguistics. The linguistics
section will have the honour to host the 6th Annual Conference of the
Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association. The following keynote
lectures will be presented:

Language Mixing and Language Separation in Bilingual Russian-German
Children (Tanja Anstatt)

Features: Slavonic and Typological
Perspectives (Greville Corbett)

Speaking from the Inside: Stories of
Everyday Life in Russia (Catriona Kelly)

On the Discourse of National
Identity in Russian Culture (Renata von Maydell)

Fundamentals of Ego-
Linguistics. Self-reference, Self-centred Speech Acts, and Related
Phenomena in Contemporary Russian (Daniel Weiss)

Fiction and
Individuality (Georg Witte)

Submissions from any scholar working on Slavic languages or
literatures are welcomed, including those in Slavic departments, as
well as in specialized linguistics or literature departments. We
particularly want to encourage young scholars to participate in this
conference. Papers will be considered on topics relating to the
diachronic or synchronic study of Slavic languages and literatures
from any theoretical perspective. Each paper will be allowed thirty
minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). The deadline for
submissions is April 15th 2006 (abstract specifications see below).
Presentations should be in English in order to open the conference up
to researchers working on non-Slavic languages and literatures.

The
participation fee will be 50 euros (25 for graduate students and
passive participants), to be paid in advance. Detailed information on
payment options & deadlines and hotel accommodation will be provided
by May 2006. The participation fee covers the abstract booklet, other
conference materials, refreshments and snacks. A limited number of
participants from economically disadvantaged countries may be allowed
free participation upon application. Please include a motivated
application for free participation when sending in your abstract. In
assigning waivers priority will be given to graduate students and non-
tenured scholars. Please, do not hesitate to contact us for further
details or questions here.

Abstract specifications:

The abstracts should not exceed 500 words (plus an additional page
for tables, graphs and references, if necessary). Please use MS Word
for Windows and Times New Roman or MS Word for Apple and TimesCE or
Unicode text. Make sure to use the international transcription in
case you work on languages with a Cyrillic alphabet. Your abstract
should present a hypothesis and outline your plan for defending that
hypothesis, i.e. it should specify research question(s), an
approach/method to the data, and obtained results. Each abstract will
be anonymously reviewed by independent reviewers. Please, send your
name, address, affiliation and the title of your abstract by e-mail.
The text of the abstract should be sent in an attached file. This
file should not include the author's name. Submit your abstract to
this e-mail address by April 15th 2006. Notifications
of the Organizing Committee s decisions will be sent out by May 31st
2006.

The organizers:

Prof. Dr. Björn Hansen
Dr. Roland Meyer
Universität Regensburg
Universitätsstr. 27
D-93040 Regensburg

PD Dr. Imke Mendoza
Miriam Finkelstein, M.A.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Geschwister-Scholl Pl. 1
D-80539 München

The Conference webpage