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Slavia Meridionalis is an interdisciplinary Open Access journal publishing papers on the literature, culture, history, ethnology and languages of southern Slavic countries, as well as their dynamic interactions with other regions.
30/07/2024
The first papers of the 24th volume have been published!!!
CULTURAL RESOURCES:
IMMOBILITY – TRANSFER, MILLING– REVIVAL
The volume is devoted to various forms of exploitation of the cultural resources within the multilingual area of Central and South-Eastern Europe. The key concepts that build up the oppositions immobility – transfer and milling – revival can also be imagined as entering into other coincidences: immobility – milling, transfer – revival, etc. The perspective is given by a book by Wojciech Burszta "The World as a Prison of Culture" (2008).
Editors-in-Charge of the issue: Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa, Sylwia Siedlecka, Aleksandra Michalska
We would like to remind you there is a Call for Papers for the 25th volume! And the deadline has been extended until 30 Semptember 2024. The topic is becoming more important by the minute...
LANGUAGE OF POLITICS, LANGUAGE IN POLITICS: DISCURSIVE, MULTIMODAL AND VIRTUAL REALITIES
A part of the editorial team working on the 23rd volume and planning next steps.
CULTURAL RESOURCES.
IMMOBILITY – TRANSFER, MILLING – REVIVAL
You are very welcome to submit!
Deadline: 30 September 2023
12/05/2023
NEW TOPIC OF SLAVIA MERIDIONALIS 24!
Due to the limited interest in the topic announced by us in 2022, i.e. SLAVS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, we have decided to expand it and redesign slightly in order to respond to the interest that has arisen in recent months in more accurate way. We would like to invite you to submit your papers on the new topic, which – we hope – fits better your current research and interests.
CULTURAL RESOURCES. IMMOBILITY – TRANSFER, MILLING – REVIVAL
Deadline for submission: 30 September 2023
Description:
In 2008, Wojciech Burszta's fascinating book The World as a Prison of Culture was published. It inspires us to look at culture as an area of resources that is being depleted as a result of today's economically and politically motivated exploitation. We find ourselves in a world in which not only ‘mythic narrative configurations’, but also subsequent religious and scientific narratives, and even the great metanarratives of modernity – with the idea of progress at the forefront – have been undermined. As a result, all collective imaginaries today have the status of ‘fiction-images’ (M. Augé). “Participation in the imaginative regime of modern culture means, to a large extent, the capacity to intertextualise all messages. This is possible precisely because all content is assigned a fictional status” (W. Burszta). The only and in some ways worrying exception turns out to be the national idea, whose vitality seems to be confirmed today by the everyday experiences.
We propose to look at the cultures of the multilingual area of Central and South-Eastern Europe from this perspective. We encourage the authors to reflect on those forms of exploitation of the cultural resources, which will further problematise the observations of anthropologists and cultural scientists cited above. The key concepts that build up the oppositions immobility – transfer and milling – revival can also be imagined as entering into other coincidences: immobility – milling, transfer – revival, etc.
Recognizing the forms of exploitation of the fiction-images mentioned here will perhaps make it possible to grasp the manifestations of the complex game played by people in a world understood as a prison of culture. In that reality people want to anchor themselves in the certainty of collectively held views. They wish landmarks that facilitate participation in a world, where “today's ideals are already a pile of outdated platitudes the next day” (W. Burszta).
Only two weeks have left to submit your paper on the 24th volume of the journal "Slavia Meridionalis"! More information is in the comment.
21/12/2022
Can't wait for the 22nd volume to be published? Any moment now!
15/09/2022
Autumn is almost here. It is time for new topics and exploration!
We are calling for papers for the next volume!
Topic: SLAVS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
The 24th volume of the journal Slavia Meridionalis will be devoted to the ways in which elements of traditional, indigenous, native Slavic cultures and ideas about Slavdom are being transposed into the globalized contemporary culture.
While finalizing the Call for Papers for the next linguistic volume, we invite you to revisit our latest publications. In the current volume, you will read about everyday language practices of contemporary Ukrainians, a study by Olena Ruda: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/article/view/sm.2414
In solidarity with Ukraine.
Рідна мова vs мова повсякденного спілкування в оцінках українців
24/02/2022
Jesteśmy myślami i pozostajemy w kontakcie z naszymi ukraińskimi przyjaciółmi, uczonymi, współpracownikami/czkami, doktorantami i doktorantkami.
Od lat tworzymy z Wami sieci współpracy, gościmy Was u nas, jesteśmy goszczeni przez Was. Dzielimy z Wami biurka, realizujemy wspólne projekty, a przede wszystkim się przyjaźnimy. To się nie zmieni.
Jesteśmy solidarni i solidarne z Ukrainą.
23/12/2021
At last! The 21st volume, entitled "The society of the 21st century – the blurring of borders, languages and cultures" (ed. Zbigniew Greń, Monika Kresa, Aleksandra Żurek-Huszcz), has been published on our internet platform: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/issue/view/132.
26/11/2021
Today, we commemorate 166 years from the death of Adam Mickiewicz - the greatest Polish romanticist poet and thinker, who is also very important for the South Slavic community. We invite you to have a look at two papers we have published recently:
"Adam Mickiewicz’s Paris lectures and the idea of universal religion" [in French] by Tomasz Szymański, https://doi.org/10.11649/sm.1339
and
"Adam Mickiewicz’s hermeneutics of “the religious”: An attempt at a postsecular reading" [in Polish] by Agnieszka Bednarek-Bohdziewicz, https://doi.org/10.11649/sm.2334
The Natisone is a river that flows for some time as a border river between Slovenia and Italy, continues in Slovenia and then crosses the border and continues in Eastern Friuli, in northeastern Italy. If you are interested what linguistic phenomena are related to it, soon you may read a paper by Gleb Pilipenko “Some contact-related phenomena in the Slovenian dialect of the Natisone Valley” [in Russian]. The 21st volume is almost ready!
Soon, we will publish a paper by Katya Grozeva Issa "A “transitional” language south of the Equator. Redefining the language of Bulgarian immigrants in Australia based on its transmission between generations" [In Bulgarian].
We are still open for your submissions. The main topic of the 22nd volume is "Scholarship - Engagement - Activism" but we do accept papers on other issues as well! Please, be ready for Imponderabilia.
Did you know "Imponderabilia" is a name of the famous performance by Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe Laysiepen (Ulay)?
The year is 1977. Two performers, both completely n**e, stand in a doorway of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologne. The public must squeeze between them in order to pass, and in doing so choose which one of them to face.
27/09/2021
Only few days left to submit a paper and engage with problems of social activism and education in times of pandemic!
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all aspects of our lives. In a short period, it initiated a response from many scholars, either through conferences, roundtables, workshops, or via articles in academic journals, online magazines, different websites and blogs. Some scholars explore philosophical responses to the pandemic, focusing on a range of issues, such as personal liberty, collective interests and various responsibilities of the state (Gerard Delanty), others compare social democratic and neoliberal visions of society, focusing on the significance of public health (Sylvia Walby). The humanities, history and literature in particular, can also help us to make some sense of the world which has changed drastically (see, for example, pandemic fiction).
Photo by Anna Boguska: Street Art in Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
23/08/2021
Summer is still on!
And we have reached the most south-eastern point of Bulgaria (and the European Union in continental Europe).
If you are interested in issues related to the Turkish or Ottoman culture, have a look at two papers published in the 17th volume "Transfer of Ideas and the Slavic Balkans":
"Pour la réforme de la justice ottomane: Count Leon Walerian Ostroróg (1867–1932) and his activities in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire" [in English] by Paulina Dominik (https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/article/view/sm.1441) and "The twisting paths of the sufis – the Turkic-Balkan motifs in the sufi ‘tariqa’ concept in selected examples of contemporary literary works" [in Polish] by Agnieszka Aysen Kaim (https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/article/view/sm.1437)
You will hear about both of the authors in the next-year volume, submissions for which we are still waiting for!
Topic: SCHOLARSHIP – ENGAGEMENT – ACTIVISM
Editors: Ana Kolarić and Katarzyna Taczyńska
Deadline: 30 September 2021.
Photo by E. Drzewiecka.
28/07/2021
“The priest is the guardian of the absolute; he sustains the cult of truths accepted by tradition as ultimate and unquestionable. The jester is the impertinent upstart who questions everything we accept as self-evident. If he belonged to good society, he could at best be merely a purveyor of dinner-party scandal. In order to point out the unobviousness of its obviousnesses and the nonultimacy of its ultimacies, he must be outside it, observing it from a distance; but if he is to be impertinent to it, and find out what it holds sacred, he must also frequent it.”
This quotation from the famous essay by Leszek Kolakowski "The Priest and the Jester" [in Polish: "Kapłan i błazen. Rozważania o teologicznym dziedzictwie współczesnego myślenia", 1959] is a reference point for the inquiry by prof. Magdalena Lubańska.
In her article, “Neither Priests nor Clowns: Attitudes Towards the Postsecular Turn in Anthropology” [in Polish, see https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/article/view/sm.2241] Lubańska discusses the issue of the postsecular turn in contemporary anthropology, taking into account the cultural processes involved in its emergence. She attempts to identify research areas and issues worthy of exploring within this turn, and at the same time she considers the boundary conditions for its usefulness in scientific research.
For practical application of this perspective in research, see the latest book by Lubańska "Praktyki lecznicze w prawosławnych monasterach w Bułgarii. Perspektywa antropologii (post)sekularnej" [Healing Practices in Orthodox Monasteries in Bulgaria: A (Post)secular Perspective, 2019]. A review of this study by dr. Ewelina Drzewiecka - "In the Zone of Ontological Penumbra" [In Polish] - is also available on our platform: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/article/view/sm.2461
“A graduate of the famous Slavic Studies at Jagiellonian University, doctor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, doctor of Ethnology at Warsaw University, academic teacher at Free Polish University (Wolna Wszechnica Polska), the University of Lodz and universities in New York, a member of the Institute for the Study of Nationalities (Instytut Badań Spraw Narodowościowych) and of the board of the Polish Sociological Institute (Polski Instytut Socjologiczny), vice-president of the National Institute of Rural Culture (Państwowy Instytut Kultury Wsi), an expert of the West Indian Social Survey and the UN Trusteeship Department, (…) [he] was a close student of Kazimierz Moszyński and Bronisław Malinowski, and a colleague of Florian Znaniecki, but most importantly he was an independent, critical and original scholar. Although he was associated with numerous institutions bringing together ethnologists and sociologists, was present in the academic and intellectual circles in Poland, Great Britain and America, and was respected for his ingenuity, wit and personality, yet his name did not become widely known nor has his academic work entered the canon of social sciences and the great story of anthropology and sociology”.
Who are we talking about?
Józef Obrebski (1905–1967) was Polish sociologist, field ethnographer, ethnologist and Slavic studies scholar, who conducted an important ethno-sociological field researches in Macedonia (1932–1933), Polesie (1934–1937), and Jamaica (1947–1948).
On his narrative on religion and religiosity, see the paper by prof. Joanna Rękas, “Around Józef Obrębski’s Narrative on Religion and Religiosity: On the Basis of Materials Collected in the Macedonian Region of Poreče” [in Polish] that we have published in the 21st volume: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/article/view/sm.2333
If you are interested in Obrębski work and legacy, visit a special website https://ispan.waw.pl/obrebski/en/ (where you can find the whole text that is quoted above), which is related to the collective scientific project “Slavic achievements of the pre-war Polish ethnology online. Verification, scientific elaboration and dissemination in open access of the unknown documentation made by Józef Obrębski in Macedonia in the 1930s”. It is led by prof. Anna Engelking who is an expert as far as Obrębski's life and work are concerned.
Photo: Józef Obrębski’s English hip flask belonging to his field equipment. Possession of his son, Stefan Obrębski (photo by A. Engelking, 2007)
Source: https://ispan.waw.pl/obrebski/en/field-materials/
15/07/2021
Silesia is another historical region within the Slavic world that has a diverse culture due to constantly changing borders and national affiliation in the past. Now, it is mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany, and is indeed a very interesting territory to investigate various problems of cultural and language interconnections. One of the great experts on the subject, especially in regard to Cieszyn Silesia, is prof. Zbigniew Greń, who is also an editor of the our next volume.
The 21st volume of Slavia Meridionals is devoted to the topic “SOCIETY OF THE 21ST CENTURY – BLURRING OF BORDERS, LANGUAGES AND CULTURES”.
Dynamics of current changes in social communication cause a need to identify new phenomena and to redefine old concepts. Some of the them are: social group defined territorially and socially (town, village), communication group (nation, ethnic group), types and hierarchy of communication units (national and regional languages, dialects, sociolects, professional sociolects). Relatively clear-cut phenomena with distinctive constitutive features, sometimes administratively codified (such as official national standard language, system of speech genres, official vs unofficial communication etc.) get replaced, especially in the social space, by phenomena with blurred borders and indistinct parameters (such as mixed speech genres, unofficial communication in public sphere, regional standards of national languages). Borders between social and communicational categories get blurred, social and communicational processes become indistinct, there is more and more noise in communication, especially in mass communication.
Edited by Zbigniew Greń and Monika Kresa with collaboration with Aleksandra Żurek-Huszcz, the 21st volume is an attempt to answer some questions about the dynamics of changes in social communication at the beginning of the 21st century.
"Duchowość Olgi Tokarczuk (...) jest jakby spojrzeniem trzecim, bardziej paradoksalnym i jeszcze bardziej tragicznym. W jej ujęciu epoki takie jak nasza – doświadczające „rozprzężenia” i skazane być może na grzebanie „w stosie odpadków, w resztkach rozmaitych fundamentalizmów” (Lyotard, 1998) – dają dziełu coś zgoła przeciwnego, niż chciałby Broch: nie „naturalizm”, lecz ów „«wewnętrzny» ogląd odbicia samych siebie”, który jest przekroczeniem doraźnej „historyczności”. Przekroczeniem tym mocniejszym, że na zbrukaną naszymi grzechami płachtę nieba wdzierają się znaki apokalipsy – jakby jeszcze przymglonej, serwowanej na raty, ale jednak apokalipsy."
Prof. Zbigniew Mikołejko attempts to reconstruct the spiritual structure that emerges from the literary work of Olga Tokarczuk. In his opinion, the direct context of this structure is a sense of a crisis or even the twilight of contemporary Western culture. For this reason, Tokarczuk seeks a paradoxical synthesis of antinomies which are tearing the modern world apart and which grow out of radically different intellectual, religious and civilisational traditions. Above all, she aims to combine the rational and empirical tradition of the European Enlightenment with prophetic and messianic currents, as well as elements of folk magic. For Tokarczuk, what has become a model of such a fusion is eighteenth-century Podolia, a region in the eastern borderlands of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, where numerous forms of Jewish and Christian mysticism and messianism were born in stormy historical circumstances. (For more, see "On Spiritual Crossroads: A “Non-Dualist” Approach to Spiritual Issues in the Prose of Olga Tokarczuk" by Zbigniew Mikołejko, https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/article/view/sm.2383)
Podolia is a historic region, located in the west-central and south-western parts of Ukraine and in northeastern Moldova. The name derives from Old Slavic po, meaning "by/next to/along" and dol, "valley".
Photo: A map of Podolia by Guillaume le Vasseur de Beauplan (2nd half of 17th century)
Source: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podole #/media/Plik:Ukraine._Podolia_Palatinatus._Beauplan_1664.jpg
28/06/2021
Let’s feel the summer! Few weeks ago, we visited Vis, which is the most remote Croatian island from the mainland, and took part in the 20th Festival of the European Short Story [Festival europske kratke priče] organized by Croatian Writers Society [Hrvatsko Društvo Pisaca]. This year’s theme were islands. On June 7, we had the opportunity to share a special evening with five Croatian writers – Renato Baretić, Ivica Ivanišević, Tanja Mravak, Korana Serdarević, Senko Karuza and listen to their selected stories. This fantastic meeting took place in Komiža, one of the towns on Vis. Below, we present a photo report from the island and the event itself, hoping you will be convinced that the evening in such beautiful surroundings simply has to be full of laughter, good emotions and great stories.
By the way, we would like to remind you in 2014 we published a paper devoted to the topic of insularity in Croatian prose by dr Anna Boguska: “Transformations of utopia in the Croatian insular prose of the second half of 20th and the first half of the 21st centuries based on examples” (in Polish, https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/article/view/sm.2014.016/301). In her paper, Boguska discusses Croatian insular prose through the category of utopia and interprets three texts in particular: “The lost homeland” [Izgubljeni zavičaj] by Slobodan Novak as an example of modern utopia, “The Island of Dreams” [Otok snova] by Damir Miloš as a postmodern dystopia, and “A Guide Across the Island” [Vodič po otoku] by Senko Karuza as a vision of a new, post-postmodern type of utopia.
Just a gentle reminder that we are waiting for your submissions!
The 22nd volume of the journal will be devoted to social and political protests during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Central and Southeastern Europe, and potential relationships between such protests and education. The pandemic is considered here as a context for further reflection. The keywords SCHOLARSHIP – ENGAGEMENT – ACTIVISM refer to the issues that are related to, caused by or revealed by various phenomena which have occurred during the pandemic, like social activism via internet, scholars’ engagement in political protests, (ir)rational processes of decision-making (mask-wearing, vaccinations, lockdowns/curfews), social inequality or exclusion due to lack of internet access (especially in education), and “teaching the moment” in online classrooms.
Today, we celebrate the Day of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of Slavic literature. This is an offcial holiday in Bulgaria, as the co-patrons of Europe (as declared by the pope John Paul II) are one of the most important figures in the Bulgarian national memory, and the patrons of the Bulgarian identity and culture.
We cordially invite you to read the whole volume, whis is devoted the transfer of ideas and the Slavic Balkans. (Editors-in-Charge: Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa, Ewelina Drzewiecka, Anna Boguska, Ewa Wróblewska-Trochimiuk with assistance of Jerzy Molas).
Photo: The Cyrillo-Methodian motif on the Bulgarian socialist monument "1300 years of the Bulgarian state" in Shumen.
17/05/2021
For the Editors-in-Charge of the 20th volume of Slavia Meridionalis, Danuta Sosnowska and Ewelina Drzewiecka, the post-secular perspective is especially important in studying the Slavic experience of the religious, as it allows to interpret religious phenomena and concepts from the non-traditional, or even non-western point of view. We invite you to read the section “Re-readings”, which is devoted entirely to the new way of thinking about the religious.
If you are interested in “the experience of faith in Slavic cultures and literatures in the context of postsecular thought”, have a look on the book that is also edited by Sosnowska and Drzewiecka: https://www.wuw.pl/product-pol-9039-The-Experience-of-Faith-in-Slavic-Cultures-and-Literatures-in-the-Context-of-Postsecular-Thought-EBOOK.html
The book contains reflections on the diversified religious experience expressed in the culture and literature of the Slavic region. We can say that Slavic religious experience is “messy”, but maybe it is better to say this is Slavic experience
12/05/2021
Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) is one of the most important Polish poets and visionaries of all time. Associated, and even identified with the Polish Romanticism, he is an object of many different studies both in Polish and foreign humanities. In her paper “Adam Mickiewicz’s Hermeneutics of “the Religious”: An Attempt at a Postsecular Reading” (in Polish), Agnieszka Bednarek-Bohdziewicz synthetically presents the hermeneutic attitude revealed in Mickiewicz’s work (poetry as well as lectures and journalism) and analyses it from a post-secular perspective. https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sm/article/view/sm.2334
Bednarek-Bohdziewicz shows how Mickiewicz opposed the reductive secularism of the Enlightenment and its secular humanism, and also how he encouraged preserving “the religious” and reviving religious concepts. For Mickiewicz, Christianity was what connects and summarizes all religious traditions. The revival of the religion-centered spirit was associated with the freedom revolution (the abolition of slavery, equality of women, emancipation of nations). He died at Constantinople, where he had gone to help organize Polish and Jewish forces to fight Russia in the Crimean War…
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Slavia Meridionalis is an interdisciplinary journal publishing papers on the literature, culture, history, ethnology and languages of southern Slavic countries, as well as their dynamic interactions with other regions. Each issue contains articles concerning a specific, pre-defined topic, which enables scholars of various disciplines (history, literary and cultural studies, linguists, sociologists, and anthropologists) to present in-depth analyses of their research questions.
The journal is published in open access and is indexed in databases including Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) and European Reference Index for the Humanities Plus (ERIH Plus). Points awarded for publication according to the List of scholarly journals and peer-reviewed international conference materials, issued by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland: 40.
„Slavia Meridionalis” to humanistyczne pismo interdyscyplinarne prezentujące wyniki badań nad literaturą, kulturą, historią, etnologią i językami Słowiańszczyzny południowej oraz jej dynamicznymi związkami z innymi obszarami kulturowymi. Wyraźnie określony przedmiot zainteresowań, precyzowany dla każdego numeru tematycznego, pozwala na wszechstronną eksplorację problemów przez przedstawicieli różnych dyscyplin, m.in. historyków, literaturoznawców, kulturoznawców, lingwistów, socjologów oraz antropologów.
Czasopismo ukazuje się w otwartym dostępie i jest indeksowane m.in. w bazie Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), European Reference Index for the Humanities Plus (ERIH Plus). Zgodnie z Wykazem czasopism naukowych i recenzowanych materiałów z konferencji międzynarodowych Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego liczba punktów przyznawanych za publikację w czasopiśmie wynosi 40.
