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Ladies and Gentlemen

The Department of Central European Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Bielsko-Biala cordially invites you to participate in

the Scientific E-Conference

The Modern Slavic World

We would like to have a closer look at current trends and phenomena happening in individual Slavic languages, literatures and cultures - whether and how do they reflect changes and reality of the 21^st century, how is an intercultural dialogue shaped, what interactions appear among the languages, whether and what new literary genres are gaining popularity, and how is the borderland shaped as a multidimensional category.

The e-conference will take place on the online platform.

Deadline for applications and abstracts: October 17^th, 2016

Announcement of the list of participants of the e-conference: October 18^th, 2016

Deadline for payment of the conference fee: October 25^th, 2016

Deadline for providing the scientific article: November 15^th, 2016

Deadline for providing articles including the reviewers' comments: November 31^st, 2016

Publishing of the monograph in an electronic form: December 15^th, 2016

A scientific article (text in *.doc or *.rtf, the languages of the conference are all Slavic languages as well as English) should be sent to the following e-mail address: kferuga@ath.bielsko.pl or aostrowska@ath.bielsko.pl. The conference fee is PLN 100/EUR 27 (the bank account number is provided on the website, at "payments" tab). The articles, after a positive review, will be published on www.konferencjabielsko.blogspot.com (this page contains also all the information about the e-conference, payments, technical requirements and publishing of the texts). Upon registering at the website, each of the participants will gain the possibility of taking part in a discussion on the published articles (below all of them). We strongly encourage you to discussion/exchange views/publish comments or thoughts.

After the e-conference, the articles will be forwarded to be published in a scientific monograph under the ISBN number, published in the form of
an e-book. Therefore, please provide the following form: volume: min. 20 000 characters, font: Times New Roman, size: 12 (abstract in English: 10), A-4 format, 2.5 cm margins, 1.5 line spacing.

Yours faithfully,

Krzysztof Feruga, Ph.D.

Agata Ostrowska-Knapik, Ph.D.