Call for Papers: CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Friday May 28, 2010 to Sunday May 30, 2010
Concordia University,
Montreal, Quebec

CALL FOR PAPERS

The annual conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists will take place in Montreal, Quebec on May 28-30, 2010 as part of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The theme of the 2010 Congress is CONNECTED UNDERSTANDING/LE SAVOIR BRANCHÉ.

Proposals are invited for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions.  Proposals for complete panels are preferred. Please follow abstract specifications when submitting your proposal(s).  Forms for individual papers, panels and roundtables as well as a brief CV form are available at 
http://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/cas/conference.html

We particularly want to encourage young scholars and graduate students to participate in this conference. Deadline for individual paper proposals:  30 January 2009; for panels and roundtables 15 February 2010. Notification of the Program Committee's decisions will be sent out by 1 March 2009.

ALL PRESENTERS MUST BE MEMBERS OF CAS.

For all questions, please contact the Program Chair, Alison Rowley, at profarowley@gmail.com, or at contact information listed below.

Abstract specifications:

To apply for participation in the conference, please fill out the respective forms (CV and individual paper proposal form; roundtable proposal form and/or panel proposal form). Abstracts should not exceed 400 words. Please use MS Word for Windows and Times New Roman or MS Word for Apple and TimesCE or pure Unicode text. Make sure to use the Library of Congress transliteration system to render words in a Cyrillic alphabet. Your abstract should present a research question and outline your plan for investigating this scholarly problem. Each abstract will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Abstracts sent by attachment may be e-mailed to profarowley@gmail.com. If electronic submission is not possible, send hard copies of your proposal to:

Dr. Alison Rowley
Department of History
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
H3G 1M8