Deadline: February 10, 2020
The University of Virginia Slavic Society of Graduate Students is delighted to announce a call for proposals for its 11th annual Slavic Humanities Forum. The conference will take place March 20-21, 2020 in Charlottesville, Virginia and will feature scholar and professor Myroslav Shkandrij from the University of Manitoba as keynote speaker. A reception will be followed by a day of presentations and discussion.
This call for papers aims for a broad range of proposals from undergraduate, graduate, and independent levels of junior scholars in the Humanities and related fields with a focus on contexts inside or outside the Russian-speaking world.
“Hindsight (Is 2020)”
Hindsight is an inescapable element of the human experience, but defining it leads to its own world of questions: is it knowledge? or is it the process and its forces that change our present and future? What relationships do people have with the past? Individuals, groups, and states have long faced these quandaries; now, is humanity as a whole capable of hindsight in the information age? If so, what can we hope to get out of the hindsight in our future?
At the 2020 Slavic Forum “Hindsight (is 2020)” these questions and more are open to investigation and comment. Some possible topics for presentation include:
Literature: nostalgia, historical revisionism, anniversaries and centennials, memory, confusion, recollection and reflection, second chances, mistakes and clarification, heritage, legacy, reputation.
Linguistics: evolutionary linguistics, etymology, semantic change, linguistic shift, computational research.
Cultural and social studies: tradition, ritual, disaster, adaptation, power, reform, revolution, changing media.
The deadline for proposals is February 10, 2020. Please send proposals with full contact information to uvaslavicforum@gmail.com containing a presentation title, keywords, and an abstract (150-200 words). An explanation of the paper topic’s relation to the general theme is welcome, but not required.
The annual Slavic Forum is sponsored this year by the UVa Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the UVa Graduate Student Council.