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From https://slaviccenter.osu.edu/about/conferences/midwest-slavic

The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University (OSU) Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES) will host the 2019 Midwest Slavic Conference on April 5-7, 2019. Conference organizers invite proposals for panels or individual papers addressing all topics related to the theme “1989 and its Effects on Central and Eastern Europe”. Preceding this year’s conference, Dr. Dorin Uritescu (York University) will present the 22nd Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture, entitled “Geolinguistic Variation and Language Change in Romanian,“ on Friday, April 5th at 4:00PM. The conference will then open at 5:30PM with a keynote address by Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky (U. of Kansas) that will focus on cultural representations of the fall of Communism in Ukraine and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Building on the keynote address, a plenary panel focusing on the larger political, economic, and social impacts of 1989 will follow on Saturday morning. Panels by conference participants will then commence on Saturday from 10:45AM-5:30PM and Sunday from 8:30AM-12:30PM. 

Abstract and CV Submissions Due: January 14th

For more information, visit https://slaviccenter.osu.edu/about/conferences/midwest-slavic