SUNDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2009 The December session of the School will be held on Dec., 24 at 16.30 at Fulbright office (4 Hrushevskogo str., office 305, Kyiv). The key speaker is Maria Shymchychyn, the discussion topic – the phenomenon of the Black Renaissance. Join us as active discussion participants!
SUNDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2009 On the 17th of December at the Institute of Literature Olga Bilous is defending her PhD on the American Gothic novel. If this theme is interesting for you, you are welcome to come.
WEDNESDAY, 08 APRIL 2009
Dear Colleagues,
We expect to receive your contributions into the 5th CALSU volume before the end of April. Our format requirements remain unchanged but for the new bibliography requirements of VAK. Here you can find the requirements. Thank you!
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 2009 The American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia offers competitive 1- to 3-month funded fellowships supporting in-residence studies with its collections during June 2009-May 2010. All application materials must be received no later than 1 March 2009. Details: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/resident.htm
MONDAY, 20 JULY 2009 On November, 6, 2009, Black Sea State Petro Mohyla University hosts the Conference "Alternative Spaces of Literature". Applications and presentations are to be sent through September, 15, 2009. See the information letter here.
MONDAY, 20 JULY 2009 The International Conference "Multiculturalism in the Perspective of Literary Studies Anthropology" will be held on October, 22-23 2009 in Chernivtsi National Fedkovych University. To take part in the Conference, you need to send your applications before September, 14 2009. See detailed information here.
MONDAY, 20 JULY 2009 The Institute of Georgian Literature named after Shota Rustavelli and the Association of Comparative Literature of Georgia invite you to take part in the international conference "Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse (experience of the 20th century)".The conference will take place on October, 7-9, 2009 in Tbilisi (Georgia). For participation in the conference, before July, 20 (for the Ukrainian colleagues from NASU – July, 30), 2009, please, send us theses of your presentations in Russian and in English and a filled in registration form. See more here.
MONDAY, 15 JUNE 2009
Dear Colleagues,
The University of Modra – Harmonia (Slovakia) invites you to the conference “Text, Context, Hypertex, Interpretation and Communication” to be held on October 21-23, 2009. Please, see the Call for Papers and Registration Form here.
MONDAY, 6 APRIL 2009
Institute of Philology and History of RSHU, Department of Comparative History of Literatures announce the International Research and Practical Conference "American Cultural Myths and Prospects of the American Literature Perception" to commemorate Professor Alexey Matveevich Zverev (70th anniversary), which will take place on October, 20-21, 2009 at the Institute of Philology and History of RSHU within the framework of the traditional "White Readings" (October, 19-21, 2009).
Sections:
American national socio-cultural concepts and literature;
America and Russia: spheres of literary contacts;
American literature in the context of the Western European cultures;
Images of America in the foreign cultural consciousness;
Round table "Literature of the USA in the context of problems of modern comparative studies"
Applications with an annotation (5 sentences, in Russian and English) of reports and presentations are accepted through June, 20, 2009 to irinamoro(at)gmail.com. Find the application form here.
FRIDAY, MARCH 13 2009 Karelia State Pedagogical University (Petrozavodsk) organizes the scientific conference "USA: language, society, culture" devoted to the 20th anniversary of sister connections of KSPU and The College of St. Scholastica (USA). Terms of the conference – September, 18-20, 2009. Information about the conference is placed on KSPU web site in the "Conference" section - http://kspu.ptz.ru. Applications for participation in the conference (name, place of work, home address, report title) will be accepted through August, 01, 2009 to e-mail fedorov(at)kspu.karelia.ru.
FRIDAY, MARCH 13 2009 Polish Association for American Studies announces the 2009 Annual Conference in Pulawy on October 21-23, 2009 - (Mis)reading America. American dreams, fictions and illusions. Please mail proposals (title plus a 250-word abstract) by June 30, 2009 to paas2009(at)gmail.com. For more information visit http://paas.org.pl/?page_id=34.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 2009 Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association (SSASAA) announces the symposium "Globalization and American Popular Culture" to be held from Friday, September 25 till Monday, September 28, 2009. See the announcement and registration form attached.
MONDAY, 15 JUNE 2009 The next session of the American Literature School will be held, as agreed before, on June, 25 at 16.30 in Fulbright Office. The focus of the session will be the American school of psychoanalysis (see the link to the list of questions to be discussed in the previous School announcement). Hope to see you soon!
TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
Dear Colleagues,
The next session of the American Literature School is going to take place on May, 21 at 16.30 at Fulbright office. The list of tentative questions is attached here - during the session in May, we plan to discuss general issues related to psychoanalysis, while the June session will focus more on the American school of it.
TUESDAY, 07 APRIL 2009
Dear CALSU members, the next session of the School will take place on Apr, 16, at 16.30 in Fulbright office (Hrushevskogo str., 4, of. 305). We are going to continue discussing mythological criticism - the tentative discussion questions are attached here.
Attention: unfortunately, your travel cost will not be covered in April.
MONDAY, 6 APRIL 2009 Minsk State Linguistics University, Belarusian Association for American Studies announce BelAAS 18th International Conference "Social and Human Values in American and European Literatures and Culture" to be held on May 13-15, 2009. Deadline for the proposals: April 20, 2009. Please, mail your proposals to: Prof. Yuri Stulov, Dept. of World Literature, MSLU, 21 Zakharova St., Minsk, Belarus 220034 Tel.: (+375)172882563 Fax: (+375)172947504. More details here.
SATURDAY, MARCH 21 2009 The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv in cooperation with Zaporizhzhya National University are pleased to announce the 10th American Studies Summer Institute: “Public Opinion and Framing Public Policy in the U.S." to be hosted by Zaporizhzhya National University in Zaporizhzhya from June 1–6, 2009. Application forms are available at U.S. Embassy’s web site http://kyiv.usembassy.gov/grants_exchanges_eng.html. Deadline for receiving applications is April 24, 2009.
SATURDAY, MARCH 21 2009
Dear CALSU members, the next session of the School will take place on Mar, 26, at 16.30 in Fulbright office (Hrushevskogo str., 4, of. 305). We are going to discuss mythological criticism - the tentative discussion questions are attached here.
Attention: unfortunately, your travel cost will not be covered in March.
FRIDAY, MARCH 13 2009 The Department of English, Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania announces the Third International Conference on CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD to be held between 15-17 May 2009. Proposals for papers should be sent before 31 March 2009 electronically to the following address: ceuenglish(at)yahoo.com.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 2009 The Chair of Theory and History of the World Literature of Kyiv National Linguistic University invites you to take part in the Research Conference “A Trip as a Literary and Cultural Studies Problem" to take place on March, 20, 2009 at the university. Deadline for applications is February, 20, 2009. Details attached.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 2008
Dear Colleagues,
Since some of our addressees mentioned that our messages failed reaching them from the atkol(at)mail.ru, address, please note change of the e-mail info(at)calsu.kiev.ua, which we’ll try to use to avoid the problems.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 2008 The 2nd International Conference “Actual Issues of Philology and American Studies” will be held on April, 22-24 2009 in Kyiv, at the Chair of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics of the National Aviation University of Ukraine. The Conference envisages work in 3 sections: Problems of contemporary interpretation of foreign literature works (Kostel Lyudmila Grygoryivna, liter_inter(at)ukr.net, 80504406466); 80504406466); American Studies (Zaharchuk Natalia Vasilievna, american_studies(at)ukr.net, 80662016824); Applied linguistics (Bilokon Galyna Myhailivna, applied_linguistics(at)ukr.net, 80675966517). Your topics and theses, as well as the conference proceedings publication fee of 100 UAH, should be passed to the abovementioned recipients till February, 15 2009.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 2008
Taurida National University announces the 9th International Forum of Russian Studies in Ukraine "Russian in the Family and World Languages in the Epoch of Globalization" to be held on March, 13-15, 2009 in Yalta.
Please, contact the organizers (+38 0652) 633-026.
Tel./fax: (+38 0652) 633-028.
E-mail: crch(at)mail.ru, alena16(at)sf.ukrtel.net
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 2009
Dear Colleagues,
Plans for Jan., 22: we are going to meet for discussion of T.S.Eliot on Jan, 22, 16.30 at Fulbright office. Questions for the discussion are attached. Besides, at 14.00 the same day we plan to hold the regular annual CALSU conference to report on 2008 and to discuss our future plans. The venue for the latter will be announced soon. Please, join us for the important organizational event.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 2009 The CALSU symposium on modernism will take place on Feb., 27. Please, send us topics of your presentations and any ideas related to organizing our symposium by Jan., 30.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 2008 Please, find information on the International Ukrainian Congress of Researchers in Foreign Literature and Culture to be held on February, 20-22 2009 in Alushta here.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 2008
Curriculum Resource Center at Central European University announces Spring 2009 Sessions. These are curriculum revision sessions intend to explore the cutting edge developments in a particular discipline. The sessions are meant primarily for senior faculty with significant teaching and research experience or for outstanding, research-oriented junior faculty. Deadlines for applications range January-February 2009.
Please, check details here: http://web.ceu.hu/crc/crc_visit_upc.html
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 2008 Prof. Denysova would like to inform everyone on the change of her e-mail address – please, note that now it is akden(at)i.ua
