"Perspectives On Slavistics" Conference

September 17-19, 2004

Dear PoS participants,

It was our goal to create a forum where (young) scholars using Western methodologies to analyze Slavic languages and literatures could present and discuss their research. Looking back at the first PoS, we think we can say we achieved our goal and we would like to thank you for being such cooperative participants (complying with all the rules, even the one on powerpoint presentations). You have made this conference a stimulating experience for everyone who was involved. And, at least according to the pictures that have just been made available on-line, you enjoyed the conference as much as we did; click here and see for yourself!

We would also like to remind you of the upcoming Novermber 15^th deadline for submission of article proposals. As you could read on the flyers in your conference materials, there are several publication possibilities. We are planning to publish both a linguistics and a literature volume of selected papers with one of the major printing houses; papers that are not selected for publication in this volume will be divided over Slavica Gandensia and Glossos. For those of you who haven't yet submitted their proposals, guidelines can be found here.

Finally, we would like to announce that the PoS was not a once in a lifetime event. Our German colleagues have stepped forward to take on the organization of PoS II and we are looking forward to seeing you again in Regensburg in 2006!

Dagmar and Kris

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The Department of Slavic and Oriental Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Belgium, is pleased to announce the First International "Perspectives On Slavistics" Conference. The conference will take place on the Faculty of Arts campus in Leuven , Belgium, September 17-19, 2004, thanks to the financial support of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research and the Faculty of Arts of the K.U.Leuven.

During the past few months, more than 100 researchers from all over the world have reacted to our call for papers and have submitted their abstracts for review. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions have been sent out on June 2nd, 2004 (some servers seem to reject incoming mail from the "Perspectives on Slavistics" e-mail address, so please click here for the list of accepted abstracts in case the notifications of the Organizing Committee did not get through).

The goals of the conference are to encourage the study of Slavic languages and literatures and to establish connections among (young) scholars working in these areas. There will be two parallel colloquia, one focusing on literature, the other reserved for linguistics. The linguistics colloquium will have the honour to host the 2004 Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference ( SCLA ). This way we can bring together cognitive linguists and linguists working in other frameworks, and offer a forum for collaboration and discussion on current developments in Slavic Linguistics. Confirmed keynote speakers include Tore Nesset from Tromso University in Norway, Elżbieta Tabakowska and  Aleksander Fiut from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Laura Janda  from the University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill, Elwira Grossman from the University of Glasgow and David Danaher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ekaterina Rachilina and Vladimir Plungjan from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow will have a presentation on corpus linguistics ("Corpora in Slavic Linguistics: the Russian National Corpus").

All presentations and posters will be in English in order to open the conference up to researchers working on non-Slavic languages and literatures. Each paper will be allowed thirty minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). We strongly encourage the use of modern presentation software, e.g. Powerpoint. Laptops and beamers will be provided.

For details or questions concerning the linguistics section, please contact Dagmar Divjak ( dagmar.divjak@arts.kuleuven.ac.be ). If your questions relate to the literature session, contact Kris Van Heuckelom ( kris.vanheuckelom@arts.kuleuven.ac.be ).