MENDELE PERSONAL NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS Feb. 9, 2016
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to victor.bers at yale.edu as plain text (no HTML, other coding, or attachments) and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. _______________________________________ YIDDISH IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: A Symposium on New Yiddish Language and Culture Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada November 5-6, 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium Theme Yiddish is far from “dead” or “dying,” with many exciting new developments in the language and culture since the beginning of the new millennium. This symposium seeks to bring together scholarship in areas of innovation in Yiddish in the last fifteen years. The symposium is multidisciplinary, spanning literary and cultural studies, linguistics, translation studies, sociology, theatre and film studies, pedagogy, history, anthropology and ethnography. The symposium will include studies in the following areas: New Yiddish writing and translation Yiddish video and film Yiddish theatre and music Yiddish language and teaching Yiddish community life Symposium participants will be invited to submit a longer version of their papers for inclusion in an edited book titled Yiddish in the New Millennium. Logistics The symposium will take place at the University of Ottawa on the evening of Saturday, November 5 through the afternoon of Sunday, November 6. The organizers will cover hotel accommodation on Saturday and Sunday as well as refreshments and meals during the event. Participants are expected to cover their own travel, with limited subsidies available. The University of Ottawa is located in the heart of Canada’s beautiful capital city, within walking distance of the national library, museums and other attractions. Submission Guidelines Interested presenters are invited to submit a 300-word abstract in Word format (Times New Roman, 12 pt, single spaced). Please include the following: the title of your proposed presentation, your name, affiliation, e-mail address, abstract including methodology and theoretical framework, selected bibliography, 6 key-words, and short biography. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a period of questions/discussion. The working languages of the conference are English and Yiddish. Please submit your proposals to the organizer, Prof. Rebecca Margolis (Dept. Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa), at the following e-mail address: [email protected] by May 1, 2016. Participants will be notified of their acceptance by June 1.  ______________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like). Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.yivoinstitute.org_about_index.php-3Ftid-3D57-26aid-3D275&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=D8C0VFGQIMfNsn7w8b0vfE3r3ePhWQ7ssdhDNAOIA7Y&m=i6OcOKQ3Y-dhocgtTbH6EgLZXR8Fm0SrlKQV_-7t2F8&s=5k_1G7ZAw1bKPhg69xsN2IRMOQRw-h8_bqZzGe0jlw0&e= All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web [interim address]: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
