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Midwest Slavic Conference 2013 Call for Papers

November 17, 2012 / / Comments Off on Midwest Slavic Conference 2013 Call for Papers

 

2013 Midwest Slavic Conference
April 5 – April 7, 2013
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES) are proud to announce the 2013 Midwest Slavic Conference, to be held at OSU April 5 – April 7, 2013.

Image of the states belonging to the Midwest Slavic Association with the name of the organization overlaid.

Conference organizers invite proposals for panels or individual papers addressing all disciplines related to Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. The conference will open with a keynote address by Brian Porter-Szücs (University of Michigan) and a reception on April 5th, followed by two days of panels. Saturday, April 6th will feature a luncheon lecture by Irene Delic (OSU).

If you would like to participate, please send a one-paragraph abstract (in PDF format) and brief C.V. to csees@osu.edu by January 16, 2013. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit presentations. Limited funding will be available to subsidize student lodging.

Application Deadline: January 16
Notification of Acceptance: February 4
Panels Announced: March 4
C.V. and Paper Submission Deadline: March 22

The Midwest Slavic Association would also like to announce Between Shots, a series of focused panels within the Midwest Slavic Conference dedicated to film and visual culture in this region. It highlights film and animation,photography & multimedia art, graphic narrative and graphic design. Each year Between Shots also offers a screening of a film from Central/Southeastern Europe, with a corresponding panel discussion. Selected panels will be sponsored by the OSU Polish Studies Initiative and other cooperating cultural foundations, therefore limited support for travel and lodging may be available to participants in these
sessions. Anyone interested in participating in the Between Shots series should include that information in the email with his/her abstract and C.V.

For more information on the 2013 Midwest Slavic Conference or any of the events taking place April 5th through April 7th, please contact Jordan Peters at csees@osu.edu.

The Center for Slavic and East European Studies
The Ohio State University
1712 Neil Ave. 303 Oxley Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292-8770
Fax: (614) 292-4273
Email: csees@osu.edu

 

Source: CSEES listserv and website

Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the Place

November 17, 2012 / / Comments Off on Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the Place

 

At this year’s Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) conference in New Orleans there were many things to do and many places to eat outside of the panel presentations and organizational meetings. The convention was held in the Marriott Hotel on Canal Street between Chartres (pronounced locally as “CHARters”) and the block-long Dorsiere Street, which is one block lake side of Decatur (locally pronounced “DeCAYter”) Street. The major complaint about the Marriott was that it charged $15 a day for wireless internet access in the individual hotel rooms, so most of the participants gathered in the lobby near the bar to access the free (although sporadic and weak) wi-fi.

Housed right on the edge of New Orleans’ famed French Quarter – Canal Street was the boundary between the French and the American sectors of town – ASEEES participants were in easy walking distance of a number of excellent restaurants: SoBou on Chartres, Olivier’s in the 200-block of Decatur* – where the ESSA held its dinner to honor Donald Ostrowski, and the Gumbo Shop on Saint Peter Street right next to St. Louis Cathedral. Couchon, a southern Cajun restaurant in the nearby Warehouse District, was also recommended. Café Du Monde, open 24 hours a day (except December 25th) on Decatur Street across from the Pontalba Apartment building on Jackson Square, offers beignets and cafe au lait for early morning breakfast and as a late night snack.

*Editor’s note: Olivier’s restaurant closed down in January 2015.

On a sunny day like today, one could buy lunch, such as a crawfish omelet with grits and French bread, from Cafe Beignet on Royal Street, sit on the steps of the Louisiana Supreme Court Building and listen to any one of several street bands, trios, and duos that were performing, and still get back to the conference in time for the afternoon panels.

 

Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the People

November 16, 2012 / / Comments Off on Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the People

 

At this year’s Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) conference in New Orleans there were many people to talk to outside of the panel presentations and organizational meetings.

Image of the front cover of Dinissa Duvanova's bookFormer Graduate Research Associate of the RCMSS/HRL Dinissa Duvanova (Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo) has a book, Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia: Collective Goods, Selective Incentives, and Predatory States, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (December 2012).

A number of alumni from the RCMSS/HRL Medieval Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI) were in attendance: Natasha Ermolaev (MSSI 2001) manages the digital Blue Mountain Project at Princeton University; Ariann Stern-Gottschalk (MSSI 2001) is in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University; Inés García de la Puente (MSSI 2003) teaches at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland); Yulia Mikhailova (MSSI 2006) is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of New Mexico; Quinn Carey Dombrowski (MSSI 2006) will soon be working at the University of California, Berkeley; and Andrew Dombrowski (MSSI 2006) is finishing up his dissertation in the Slavic Department of the University of Chicago.

Image of the front cover of the book The Russian's WorldAlumni of the OSU Slavic Department on hand at ASEEES included Todd Armstrong (Chair, Russian Department) and Raquel Greene (Associate Professor of Russian), who both teach Russian literature at Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa);  Eloise Boyle, co-author with Genevra Gerhart of The Russian’s World: Life and Language (Slavica Publishers, 4th ed., 2012); Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University (New York); David Patton, President of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), and Vice President of the American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS); and Frederick H. White, Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Utah Valley University (Orem, Utah).

OSU History Department alumni present at the conference included Aaron B. Retish (Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan) and Matthew P. Romaniello (Associate Professor, University of Hawai’i at Manoa).

 

Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) Annual Meeting 2012

November 14, 2012 / / Comments Off on Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) Annual Meeting 2012

 

The Early Slavic Studies Association, “a scholarly, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering closer worldwide communication among scholars interested in pre-eighteenth century Slavic studies” and “promoting the dissemination of scholarly information on early Slavic studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the Association’s newsletter,” held its annual meeting at the ASEEES conference in New Orleans today. Michael A. Pesenson (University of Texas at Austin), representing the ESSA Book Prize committee in the absence of the committee’s other two members, George Majeska (Emeritus, University of Maryland) and Julia Verkholantseva (University of Pennsylvania), announced the winners of this year’s ESSA Book Prize.

The Book Prize Committee found it difficult to choose only one winner and one honorable mention, so they awarded two first-place prizes and two honorable mentions.

First place honors went to:

David B. Miller, Saint Sergius of Radonezh, His Trinity Monastery, and the Formation of the Russian Identity (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010)

Image of the book cover for David Miller's "St. Sergius of Radonezh, His Trinity Monastery and the Formation of the Russian Identity." The Cover shows the onion domes of the monastery against a blue sky.

and Jan Klápště, The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (Brill, 2011)

Image of the front cover of "Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation": spring green cover with title and author in white letters in the upper third of the cover, and an image of possibly a manuscript painting of a man entering a monastery in the lower two-thirds of the front cover. The subtitles are in white letters, written horizontally to the left and to the right of the centered title, author and image.

ESSA 1st Place 2012

 

The honorable mentions are:

Isaiah Gruber, Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles (Northern Illinois University Press, 2012)

Image of the front cover of Isaiah Gruber's book

ESSA Honorable Mention 2012

 

and Michael Ostling, Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, Past & Present Book Series (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Image of the front cover of Michael Ostling's book

ESSA Honorable Mention 2012

 

 

Organizational Meetings at ASEEES 2012

November 14, 2012 / / Comments Off on Organizational Meetings at ASEEES 2012

 

Many academic organizations find it convenient to meet at their annual national conferences. Among the association meetings included on the schedule for this year’s Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies convention (ASEEES) in New Orleans are:

American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Shevchenko Scientific Society (meeting together)

Association for Croatian Studies

Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC) (see also its Facebook page)

Bulgarian Studies Association

Czechoslovak Studies Association

Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA)

Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association

North American Association for Belarussian Studies

North American Society for Serbian Studies

Society for Albanian Studies (no website)

Society for Romanian Studies

Society for Slovene Studies (SSS)

Slovak Studies Association

Southeast European Studies Association

Slavic and East European Folklore Association

 

 

ASEEES Convention 2012

November 13, 2012 / / Comments Off on ASEEES Convention 2012

 

The 44th Annual Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)* Convention is being held in New Orleans, November 15-18, 2012. This year’s conference theme is “Boundary, Barrier and Border Crossing.”

Among the panels listed in the convention program, one that promises to be of interest to medieval Slavic scholars is Slavia Orthodoxa & Slavia Romana: A Round Table in Memory of Professor Riccardo Picchio, chaired by Paul Alexander Bushkovitch (Yale), with participants Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Harvey Goldblatt (Yale), Michael A. Pesenson (U of Texas at Austin), and Marina Swoboda (McGill, Canada). (See page 13 of Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 30 for Predrag Matejic’s obituary of Riccardo Picchio.)

Image of the front cover of Raffensperger's book "Reimaginging Europe," a red ink picture from a chronicle manuscript on a cream-colored background.

Harvard University Press 2012

Also intriguing is Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus′ in the Medieval World: Christian Raffensperger‘s Bold New Hypotheses – (Roundtable),  sponsored by the Early Slavic Studies Association, chaired by David Maurice Goldfrank (Georgetown University), with participants Brian James Boeck (DePaul University), Ines Garcia de la Puente (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), Elena Boeck (DePaul), and Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University).

 

*formerly, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

 

 

39th St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies

October 14, 2012 / / Comments Off on 39th St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies

 

The Manuscript Studies Conference at St. Louis University, which was held on October 12 and 13, 2012,  has been organized by the Vatican Film Library and its journal, Manuscripta, since 1974, and is the only conference in North America dedicated strictly to manuscript topics. The two-day program offers sessions on a variety of themes relating to paleography, codicology, illumination, book production, library history, manuscript cataloging, and much more. Suggestions for papers and sessions are always welcome, and specific submissions can be made through the annual call for papers.

This year’s “Lowrie J. Daly, S.J., Memorial Lecture on Manuscript Studies” by David Ganz was on “The Importance of Half Uncial Script.” Topics of the conference’s eight sessions included paleography, new discoveries in Armenian manuscripts, fragments and the fragmenting of manuscripts, “writing the scribe.” Two presentations in the session “Work in Progress” assessed “Manuscript Access in a Digital Age” and the “Digital Scriptorium Today and Tomorrow.”

Source: Website of the St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies

 

Conference: ASEC, March 8-9, 2013, Georgetown

August 27, 2012 / / Comments Off on Conference: ASEC, March 8-9, 2013, Georgetown

 

The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC, Inc.) will hold its fifth biennial conference at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, on March 8-9, 2013.

The theme of the conference is “Antecedents and Subsequents of Iosif Volotsky: Exploring Eastern Christian Concerns” (2015 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Iosif Volotsky, founder of the Iosif-Volokolamsk Monastery), yet it is designed to “embrace topics from any period, and all regions related to Eastern Christian groups…. The topic is broadly conceived to address the interests and concerns of Iosif, a monastic reformer, whose life and work influenced the religious culture of Muscovy as well as modern scholarship of his period. Iosif’s interests encompassed the multi-faceted issues of religious and spiritual life and ranged from monastic reform to patristics, liturgics, education, administration, spirituality, heresy, and secular Christian life, among others.”

Registration is $50 ($25 for graduate students) and participants must be members of ASEC by the time of the conference.

To become a member of ASEC, please contact ASEC treasurer, Lucien Frary (lfrary@rider.edu).

Source: “Call for Papers” issued by the ASEC.

 

The First (and Only) Annual Hilandar Research Project Conference, 1984

July 23, 2012 / / Comments Off on The First (and Only) Annual Hilandar Research Project Conference, 1984

 

The First – and what turned out to be the only – Annual Hilandar Research Project Conference was held May 3-4, 1984. The major goals of the conference were to provide an update of the Hilandar Research Project’s activities and financial status, and to offer concrete proposals for the expansion and development of the  Hilandar Research Project. Among the future goals enumerated by the Very Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic were: “(1) the continuing acquisition and development of the collection of microform and reference materials; (2) the publication of a Supplemental and Cumulative Checklist of the holdings of the Hilandar Room (now over 2,000 items); (3) the publication of a detailed description of the Slavic codices of the Great Lavra Monastery on Mount Athos…” (Polata knigopisnaia 13: 71).

Photograph of the cover of the catalog of manuscripts in the Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos. A yellow cover with an ornamental frame in red, and in the frame in black letters is the title and also the names of the authors. Under the authors' names in a circle are the words "Balcanica II Inventaires et catalogues"

Sofia: CIBAL, 1989

Among the ten presentations given, Robert Mathiesen (Brown University) reported on “The Present Status of Medieval Slavic Studies in the USA and Canada,” and concluded, among other things, that “North American scholars should concentrate on the treatment of problems less actively treated elsewhere in the world, such as Biblical textology” (Polata knigopisnaia 13: 27).

The report on the conference ends with the announcement that “On 5 May 1984, following the conclusion of the Conference, a new and completely furnished and reequipped Hilandar Room was dedicated by Robert Rade Stone, President of the Serb National Federation, and presented with the first original manuscript, a late XVIIIth century copy of Paisij Hilandarskij’s Istoria slavjanobǎlgarskaja by Mrs Esther N. Clarke” (Polata knigopisnaia 13: 74).

Source: Matejic, Predrag. “Chronicle: 3-4 May 1984: Columbus. The First Annual Hilandar Research Project Conference.” Polata knigopisnaia 13 (December 1985): 71-74.

Image source: Cover of the book, M. Matejic and D. Bogdanovic, Slavic Codices of the Great Lavra Monastery: A Description (Sofia: CIBAL, 1989).

 

Conference: Hilandar Monastery and Other Repositories, 1981

July 8, 2012 / / Comments Off on Conference: Hilandar Monastery and Other Repositories, 1981

 

A working conference devoted to “Hilandar Monastery and Other Repositories of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts: Research Needs and Opportunities” was held April 11-13, 1981 at Ohio State University [sic], Columbus, Ohio. Image of the cover of the booklet containing the reports of the Working Conference on the Hilandar Research Project, April 1981The Very Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic presented an update on the Hilandar Research Project, representatives from various countries reported on the status of Slavic and medieval studies, and recommendations regarding the future work and development of the Hilandar Research Project were made by working groups composed from 45 scholars of 31 institutions of higher education in North America and Europe.

Reports were presented on collections in Belgium (Francis Thomson), Bulgaria (Petŭr Dinekov), Canada (Richard Pope), repositories holding Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts (Anica Nazor), Italy (Mario Capaldo), Macedonia (Lidija Slaveva), the Netherlands (Anton Van den Baar), Serbia (Dimitrije Bogdanović), and the United States (Riccardo Picchio).

Other participants from Europe included: Matej Cazacu and Paul-Hubert Poirier (France); Aksiniia Džhurova, Ivan Dujčev, Stefan Kožuharov, Kujo Kuev, Krumka Sharova, and Borjana Velcheva (Bulgaria); David Huntley (Canada); Vera Mutafčieva (Austria); Aleksander Naumow and Jerzy Rusek (Poland); Andrei Robinson (USSR); Antoine-Emile Tachiaos (Greece); and William Veder (the Netherlands).

Attendees from the US were: Julia Allisandratos (MIT); John Fine,  Ladislav Matejka, and Benjamin Stolz (University of Michigan); Priest-monk Ioannikios (Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY); Edward Kasinec (University of California, Berkeley); Maxine Lebo (Reston, Virginia); Horace Lunt and Hugh Olmsted (Harvard University);  Robert Mathiesen (Brown University); Gordon McDaniel (Seattle, WA); Olivera Nedić (Chicago); Philip Shashko (University of Wisconsin); Daniel Waugh (University of Washington); and Dean Worth (UCLA).

Participants from OSU were: Bert Beynen, Sharon Fullerton, Charles Gribble, Predrag Matejic, David Robinson, and Leon Twarog.

 

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