Slavic and East European Languages
The Call for Papers for the 2012 AATSEEL will be available in March, 2011.
The following Call for Papers is from the 2011 AATSEEL Conference:
The AATSEEL National Meeting is a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in these and related areas to form panels around specific topics, organize roundtable discussions, propose forums on instructional materials, and/or submit proposals for individual presentations. The conference regularly includes panels in the following areas:
Linguistics
Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Linguistics and Pedagogy.Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition
Second Language Acquisition, Empirical Studies in Language Learning, Study Abroad, Teaching of Individual Skills (pronunciation, reading, listening, writing, speaking), Content-based Instruction (in film, history, politics, culture, literature, etc.), Curriculum Design, Language Teaching for Special Purposes, Teaching of Languages other than Russian (Polish, Czech, Croatian, Romanian, etc.), Use of Technology in Language Teaching.
Literature and Culture
Individual Writers and Poets (Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Akhmatova, Bulgakov, Nabokov and others), Themes (history and literature, travelogues, gendered readings, etc.), Critical approaches (including various theoretical approaches), Genre (avtorskaia pesnia, ode, drama), Periods (medieval to contemporary), Culture, Film, Dance, Music, Philosophy, and Religion.
Formats
The Program Committee will accept proposals for the following formats:
- individual paper (2011 AATSEEL Paper Proposal Form
) - fully-formed panel (2011 AATSEEL Panel Proposal Form )
- roundtable or forum (2011 AATSEEL Roundtable Proposal Form )
Forms for papers, panels, roundtables and fora should be submitted directly to the Division Chairs listed below.
The Program Committee also welcomes proposals for workshops or poetry readings. Contact AATSEEL Program Committee Chair Alexander Burry if you would like to propose one of these events at the 2011 Conference.
- workshop
- master class
- poetry reading
Each proposal will be reviewed by the Program Committee, and the text of every accepted proposal will appear in the annual meeting program book (note that this includes formats for which no descriptions have appeared in the past). Proposals for all formats should not exceed 300 words, but a successful, effective proposal for any format can certainly be shorter.
Proposal Guidelines
Individual paper proposals must identify a problem that needs solving in the fields of linguistics, pedagogy, literature, and/or culture, or present a hypothesis that sheds light on the interpretation of a text or body of texts. It should outline the author's plan for defending the paper's hypothesis or advancing an interpretation.
The goal of the review process is not to adjudicate a competition for a limited number of slots, but, rather, to ensure that all papers presented meet minimum professional standards and reflect careful preparation in advance. Division heads, who are responsible for review procedures, will try to achieve the widest possible representation of the membership with respect to disciplinary subdivision, school of thought or type of approach, seniority, geography, and type of institution or affiliation. The review process will be applied uniformly to all prospective conference participants.
An individual proposal should briefly present a hypothesis and outline the author's plan for defending that hypothesis. An ideal proposal, like a good paper, should identify a problem (linguistic, pedagogical, literary, historical, or cultural) that needs solving or present a hypothesis that sheds light on the interpretation of a text or body of texts. (A text need not be strictly "literary" and could be, for example, a work in film, television, painting, music, or other arts and media.) A paper may identify a new problem and propose a solution, or may identify a complete or partial solution to an existing problem. Alternatively, a paper might indicate that a generally held view has unrecognized shortcomings, without necessarily proposing a comprehensive analysis to replace the received wisdom. Some papers, especially in pedagogy, may provide critical descriptions and analyses of existing, innovative, or proposed methods and materials used in teaching language, literature, or culture. Papers in literature may propose a new analysis of a text, offer a new application of an established critical theory or theories of textual analysis or interpretation, or present a new theory of textual interpretation. Papers in culture may include analyses of texts in a variety of "high" and popular arts and media or broader historical, societal, or cultural studies. Proposals on interdisciplinary topics are welcome. If your proposed paper makes use of a particular methodology or theoretical framework, it is important to state this clearly; a reference as brief as "relying on approach X," "applying the principles of Y," "analyzing the problem within a Z framework," or "I am approaching the problem from the point of view of A and B's theory of Q" is sufficient.
Proposals for fully-formed panels will now contain, in addition to a panel title, the titles of individual papers and names of presenters, chair, and discussant (if there is one), a single paragraph-long statement, prepared by the panel organizer (who can also serve as one of the presenters, the chair, or the discussant). This single-paragraph proposal should also not exceed 300 words, and like a paper proposal it can be shorter. It must contain a concise description of the rationale for bringing the individual papers together as a panel and describe briefly how each paper fits into the discussion. No individual proposals for papers submitted as part of a fully-formed panel need to be included at the time the panel is proposed.
If a panel proposal is accepted by the Program Committee, the organizer will be responsible for obtaining from each participant a description of each paper for inclusion in the program book, and sending in those descriptions to the Program Committee Chair by Sept. 30, 2010.
Proposals for fora, workshops, master classes, and poetry readings should include concise description of the rationale for bringing conference participants together for the discussion envisioned by the event organizer; they can, and in the case of the poetry reading should, contain brief descriptions of the participants' particular scholarly or creative interests and expertise.
Deadlines
Proposal deadlines are April 15 and July 1, 2010.
The first deadline allows for revision and resubmission of proposals, should reviewers deem that necessary. The second deadline does not allow for resubmission. Proposals should be no longer than approximately 300 words (including select bibliographic citations in the standard format in the respective discipline). Detailed guidelines for proposals and published program abstracts from past years are available on the AATSEEL website.
Membership Requirement
The Program Committee notes that all conference participants must be AATSEEL members in good standing for 2010 or request a membership waiver. Membership (which is based on the calendar year) can be renewed by regular mail or online on the AATSEEL website. Authors must be members in good standing or have a waiver in order to receive the results of proposal review
Division Heads
Linguistics
Prof. Robert Channon
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-496-1683
Email: channon@purdue.edu
Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition
Prof. Victoria Hasko
Department of Language and Literacy Education
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: 706-542-4525
Email: driagina@uga.edu
Literature and Culture
Prof. Alexander Burry
Department of Slavic and East European
Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
400 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road
Columbus OH 43210
Phone: 614-247-7149
Fax: 614-292-8666
E-mail: burry.7@osu.edu
Correspondence and submissions of panels and proposals by e-mail are preferred, but submissions by regular post and fax are also acceptable.
AATSEEL Membership and Conference Preregistration. In conformity with AATSEEL's bylaws, all conference participants must be members of AATSEEL in good standing and must preregister for the conference by September 30, 2010. In particular:
AATSEEL Membership: Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent only to AATSEEL members in good standing.
Conference Registration: Conference participants who have not preregistered by September 30 may be deleted from the conference program.
Exceptions to Membership Requirement:
Non-North-American scholars and non-Slavists may apply to the chair of the Program Committee for exemption from the membership requirement, which will be determined on an individual basis. Please request exemption from the membership requirement when you submit your proposal, so as not to delay acceptance.