Conference day 4 — two interesting panels to finish it out!

Another BSS Conference is almost in the books. Here is what to expect on the last day of our conference (all times are UTC-4).
  • We will start the day with the first session between 9:00 and 10:40 featuring:
    • Katsiaryna Ackermann, “Some Contrastive Evidence of Cognitive-semantic Schemes Deducible in Naming of Close Social Circle in Balkan Linguistic Communities and Beyond”
    • Giustina Selvelli, “Patterns of Multilingualism between “Imperial Legacy” and Globalization in the Bulgarian City of Plovdiv”
    • Tatiana Ganenkova, “Second Language Acquisition of Macedonian by Albanian Native Speakers Living in Struga”
    • Lumnije Jusufi, “’Germany Unites us!’ Joint Macedonian-Albanian Language Developments in Contact”
  • The second session of the day (and last of the conference) will run between 11:00 and 12:40 featuring:
    • Carly Dickerson, “Regional Variation in the Production of Albanian Rhotics”
    • George Bocean, “The Death of a Dialect? A Sociolinguistic and Historical Analysis of the Banat Romanian Dialect, and its Impact on Banat Identity and Culture”
    • Andreea Pascaru, “Assessing Language Vitality and Endangerment: Language Attitudes among the Romeyka Speakers of Turkey and Greece”
    • Thede Kahl, “Trakatrukika, the Language of Kızderbent. What Remains from a South Slavic Vernacular Shaped in Asia Minor and Spoken in Greek Macedonia?”
  • After the conclusion of the last session, the OSU Organizing Committee will close the conference and pass the torch to the University of Mississippi that will host BSSC in 2024!
Make sure you check the conference schedule for any last-minute updates. Also available at the conference website.

We look forward to an equally exciting last day!

Rexhina Ndoci, on behalf of the Organizing Committee

Conference day 3 — literature, culture, linguistics, and a trip to the (virtual) beach

Thank you all for making day two of our conference great! Here is what to expect in day three (all times UTC-4):
  • We will start with the first session of the day between 9:25 and 10:40 featuring:
    • Lejla Veskovic, “The Fall and Rise of Yugoslav (Trans)socialist Society”
    • Tijana Matijević, “Yugoslav Remains as the Foundations of the Story-Telling: On Olja Savičević Ivančević’s Fiction”
    • Bavjola Shatro, “Remembering and Narrating as Moral Survival Fr. Zef Pllumi’s Memoir Live to Tell”
  • The second session of the day will run between 11:00 and 12:15 featuring:
    • Gjorgje Bozhoviq, “Head Movement in Old and Modern Albanian vis-à-vis the Balkan Sprachbund”
    • Liljana Makarijoska, Bisera Pavleska Georgievska & Jordana Shemko Georgievska, “Phraseological Units with Color Components in Macedonian and Albanian”
    • Clayton Marr, “Angevin Evaporation? Langue d’oil and Old Albanian”
  • The third session of the day will run between 12:35 and 13:50 featuring:
    • Donald Dyer, “Tales from the Script: Balkanistica at 50!”
    • Toni Juricic, “The Case of the Mediterranean Grotesque and its Relation to the Southern Gothic”
    • Grace Fielder & Elena Petroska, “The Lekov Affair: Ideology versus Linguistic Integrity”
  • There will be a socializing break between 13:50-15:00 in Gather.Town in the following link (same link as the one for day 2)
  • The last session will run between 15:00 and 15:55 featuring:
    • A. Jakob Johnson, “Similar but Not the Same: Aspectual Mismatches between Bulgarian da-constructions and Russian Infinitives in Fiction and Religious Speeches”
    • Nathan Marks & Biljana Konatar, “Contact-Induced Change: Enclitic Placement by BCMS Heritage Speakers”
Finally, make sure you also check the conference schedule for last minute updates.
We look forward to another exciting day at the conference!
Rexhina Ndoci, on behalf of the Organizing Committee

Conference day 2 — featuring the Naylor Lecture!

What a great start to the conference we’ve had! Here is what to expect in day two (all times UTC-4):
  • We will start with the first session of the day between 9:00 and 10:40 featuring:
    • Alexander Novik, “Traditional Costume of Slavic (Macedonian) Muslims in Albania: Adaptating and Preserving the Identity”
    • Katsiaryna Ackermann, “Some Contrastive Evidence of Cognitive-semantic Schemes Deducible in Naming of Close Social Circle in Balkan Linguistic Communities and Beyond”
    • Daniel Ungureanu, “Memescape Narratives of Major Social Movements in the Post-2013 Romania”
    • Dorian Jurić, “Bringing Back Bakonja: Epic Topography and the Editor’s Imperative”
  • Between 11:00 and 12:15 Dr. Andrey Sobolev will give the 2022 Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture titled “Torlak in the Slavic Family and Balkan Sprachbund: Linguistic Problems and Methodological Challenges”.
    • We will be using the same Zoom link for the Naylor lecture as for the rest of the conference (please ignore an earlier version of the schedule that stated otherwise).
  • The second session of the day will run between 13:25 and 14:40 featuring:
    • Eleni Bužarovska & Liljana Mitkovska, “On the Lability of Verbs in Balkan Languages”
    • Ivan Šimko, Barbara Sonnenhauser & Anastasia Escher, “Variation in the Marking of Balkan Slavic Indirect Objects”
    • Brian D. Joseph, “Balkan Adverbials in –m/–n/–Ø”
  • The last session will run between 15:00 and 16:15 featuring:
    • Monica Genesin & Joachim Matzinger , “Street Names in Albania – An Unwritten History”
    • Daniel Collins, “Delocutivity-motivated Semantic Changes in South Slavic”
    • Andrew Johnson, “Comprehensive Synchronic Albanian Conjugation Paradigm”
Finally, make sure you also check the conference schedule for last minute updates. Also available at the conference website.
We look forward to another exciting day at the conference!
Rexhina Ndoci, on behalf of the Organizing Committe

Conference day 1 – what you need to know

Here is what you need to know about the first day:

Here is what to expect in terms of talks (all times are UTC-4):

  • We will kick off the day at 11:50 with a welcome to the conference
  • The first session will go between 12:00 and 13:40 featuring:
    • Maxim Makartsev & Max Wahlström, “Ambitransitivity in Balkan Romance and South Slavic: An Areal Overview”
    • Tomislav Sočanac & Iliyana Krapova, “Factivity and Veridicality in South Slavic Languages”
    • Stanislava-Stasha Tofoska & Bojan Petrevski, “Are Positive Personal Qualities Always Positive? The Semantic and Pragmatic Potential of Some Adjectives Expressing Personal Qualities in Macedonian”
    • James Pennington, “Epistemic Immediacy Expressed Through the Genitive in Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian: The Missing Link to a Common Slavic Category?”
  • The keynote will be given by prof. Victor Friedman between 14:00 and 15:15 who will talk about “Balkan Obscenity and the Balkan Sprachbund”
  • The second session will go between 15:25 and 17:05 featuring:
    • Rexhina Ndoci, “Albanians and the Features of their L2 Greek in Internet Memes”
    • Sarah Craycraft, “Radical Imaginaries: Intergenerational Residencies as Rural Intervention”
    • Valentina Iepuri, “‘It Is the Time of Good People’: 2020 Presidential Campaign Discourse in the Republic of Moldova”
    • Bojan Belić, “When Sex-Indexing Hits Present-Day Serbian”
  • To close the day prof. Brian Joseph will give a virtual tour of Columbus to make up for COVID not allowing us to hold the conference in-person to see Columbus for yourselves.

We look forward to an exciting conference!

Rexhina Ndoci, on behalf of the BSSC22 Organizing Committee

Conference registration

Conference registration is open until April 4th. There is no registration fee. You can register here.

If you missed registration, please contact Clayton Marr (marr.54@osu.edu).