International Congress of Slavists

The International Slawistenkongress (Russian Международный съезд славистов / Meschdunarodny sjesd slawistow, transliterated Meždunarodnyj s " ezd slavistov, . Eng International Congress of Slav (ic) ists ) since 1929 is the five -yearly conference of the world's central Slavic. The competition is organized by the International Slawistenkomitee and always takes place in a Slavic country.

On Slawistenkongress 2008 in Ohrid around 700 literature and language scholars from forty countries participated.

Congress languages ​​are traditionally all Slavic languages ​​, English, French and German, which is no interpretation. This means that there are always lectures and discussions on Lower eg. The most famous case of a lecture in a widely spoken language is Reinhold Oleschs lecture " Okcent venst'ă Rece " ("The dravänopolabische word 'accent) 1973 in Warsaw in the extinct for 200 years Dravänopolabisch language. Much of the key information about the Congress, however, either only offered in the language of the host country or in addition to Russian and English.

On the last day of a Slawistenkongresses a new chairman of the International Slawistenkomitees is selected from among the Chairpersons of the national associations, which remains five-year term and the next Congress performs in his country. ( Currently, the Serb Bosko Suvajdžić officiates, so that the next International Slawistenkongress 2018 will take place in Serbia. )

The International Slawistenkongress should not be confused with the politically oriented Slavs congresses of the 19th and 20th century, to which there is no connection. The Slawistenkongresse are " devoted to the issues of Slavic philology, literature, history and folk lore " under the first call of 1929.

Chronology

After the first International Slawistenkongress was initiated at the site of the Prague Linguistic Circle, found the first ten conferences twice each in the then only five Slavic countries instead ( until the seventh Congress always in capitals ). Since the end of the Cold War order is relaxed, and there are increasingly the eight "new" Slavic states to the course.

Participation

About the participation in the International Slawistenkongress decide the national Slawistenkomitees after each own rules, after the International Slawistenkomitee, which consists of the chairman of the national federations, each country has allocated a quota. For the 2013 Congress the following quotas for the Slavic (*) and non-Slavic countries were:

  • 70: * Russia ( 2008: 60)
  • 55: * Poland ( 2008: 50)
  • 45: Germany
  • Each 35: * Ukraine ( 2008: 30 ), United States
  • 25 each: * Bulgaria ( 2008: 33) * Serbia (2008: 32, together with Montenegro), * Czech Republic ( 2008: 30) * Belarus ( 2008: 20)
  • 20 each: Italy, Croatia *
  • Per 15: France, Great Britain, * Macedonia ( 2008: 20), * Slovakia (2008: 20 ), Hungary
  • 13: Austria
  • 12: * Slovenia
  • 10 each: Belgium ( 2008: 5 ), Finland, Canada ( 2008: 9), Netherlands, Sweden
  • 7: Lithuania (2008: 5)
  • 5 each: Australia and New Zealand, * Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Estonia ( 2008: 3 ), Georgia ( 2008: 2 ), Greece ( 2008: 0 ), Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia (2008: 3), Moldova ( 2008: 3) * Montenegro ( 2008: 32 together with Serbia ), Norway, Romania ( 2008: 10), Switzerland, Spain (2008: 3)
  • 3: Turkey ( 2008: 0 )
  • 2: India

In addition to these 622 individual presentations (2008: 600), there were thematic blocks, round tables and committee meetings.

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