International Slavist Congress

The International Slawistenkongress ( Russian Международный съезд славистов Meschdunarodny sjesd slawistow , transliterated Meždunarodnyj s "ezd slavistov ; Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian  Međunarodni slavistički kongres ; English International Congress of Slav (ic) ists ) is the 1929 five-yearly central conference of the world's Slavic . It is organized by the International Slavist Committee and has always taken place in a Slavic-speaking country.

Around 700 literary and linguists from forty countries took part in the 2008 Slavist Congress in Ohrid .

The conference languages ​​are traditionally all Slavic languages , English, French and German, with no interpreting. This leads to the fact that there are e.g. B. repeatedly gives lectures and contributions to discussions in Lower Sorbian . The most famous case of a lecture in a seldom spoken language is Reinhold Olesch's lecture "Okcent venst'ă recĕ" ("The Dravenopolabic Word Accent") in Warsaw in 1973 in the Dravanopolabic language, which has been extinct for 200 years . However, much of the key information about the congress is offered either only in the language of the host country or in Russian and English.

On the last day of a Slavist Congress, a new chairman of the International Slavist Committee is elected from among the chairmen of the national associations. He will remain in office for five years and hold the next congress in his country. (The Serbian Boško Suvajdžić is currently in office , so that the next International Slavist Congress will take place in Serbia in 2018.)

The International Slavist Congress should not be confused with the politically oriented Slavic Congresses of the 19th and 20th centuries, to which there is no connection. According to the first call for proposals from 1929, the Slavic Congresses are "dedicated to questions of Slavic linguistic research, literary history and folk tradition".

chronology

After the first International Slavist Congress was initiated at the location of the Prague Linguists' Circle, the first ten congresses took place twice each in the then only five Slavic countries (until the seventh congress always in the capital cities). Since the end of the Cold War, the order has been relaxed and the eight “new” Slavic states are increasingly involved.

No.	year	date	place	Remarks
I.	1929	October 6-13	Prague
II	1934	23-29 September	Warsaw
(III)	(1939)	(September 18-25)	Belgrade	planned, but in protest against Germany's attack on Poland on September 1st. called off
-	(1955)	(15-21 September)	Belgrade	Extraordinary congress at which the International Slavists Committee was founded, which organized the other congresses
IV	1958	September 1-12	Moscow	first regular congress in a communist country, after a total of 24 years of hiatus due to the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War
V	1963	16-23 September	Sofia
VI	1968	August 7-13	Prague	in the Prague spring , shortly before the invasion of Soviet troops on August 21.
VII	1973	August 21-27	Warsaw
VIII	1978	3-9.9.	Ljubljana and Zagreb
IX	1983	September 6-14	Kiev
X	1988	September 14-22	Sofia	last congress in a communist country
XI	1993	30.8. – 9.9.	Bratislava	The congress had been given to Czechoslovakia in rotation and took place eight months after Slovakia's independence .
XII	1998	26.8. – 3.9.	Krakow
XIII	2003	August 15-21	Ljubljana
XIV	2008	10-16 September	Ohrid
XV	2013	August 20-27	Minsk
XVI	2018	anticipated August 20-27	Belgrade

participation

The national Slavist committees decide on participation in the International Slavist Congress according to their own rules, after the International Slavist Committee, which consists of the chairmen of the national associations, has allocated a quota to each country. For the 2013 Congress, the following quotas were valid for the Slavic (*) and non-Slavic countries:

• 70: * Russia (2008: 60)
• 55: * Poland (2008: 50)
• 45: Germany
• 35 each: * 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
• 15 each: France , Great Britain , * Macedonia (2008: 20), * Slovakia (2008: 20), Hungary
• 13: Austria
• 12: * Slovenia
• 10 each: Belgium (2008: 5), Finland , Canada (2008: 9), the 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 lectures (2008: 600), there were thematic blocks ('panels'), round tables and committee meetings.

Web links

• Bibliography of the International Slavist Congresses (BibSlavKon) Bibliographical data of the published articles, held at the International Slavist Congresses between 1929 and 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The manuscript of the lecture was lost for 25 years and was only rediscovered after his death: Reinhold Olesch: Okcent venst'ă recĕ - The dravenopolabic word accent. Ed. Hans Rothe , Angelika Lauhus. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 1998 ( ISBN 3-412-08398-4 ). Cf. Angelika Lauhus and Bodo Zelinsky: Preface, in: Slavistic Research: In memoriam Reinhold Olesch , Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 2005 ( ISBN 3-412-12305-6 ), pp. IX – XV, here pp. XII– XIII.
2. ↑ Cf. the homepage of the 14th International Slavist Congress in Ohrid ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
3. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia: International Congress of Slavic Studies winds up in Minsk (online), August 26, 2013.
4. ↑ Invitation from the Czechoslovak embassy in Berlin to the German government to participate in the 1st International Slavist Congress, July 25, 1929, quoted from Helmut Wilhelm Schaller, “The first international Slavist congresses in 1929, 1934 and 1939 from a German perspective” ( Memento des Originals from 10 June 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Bulletin der Deutschen Slavistik 19 (2013), 7–18, here p. 9 ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
5. ↑ Cf. Norbert Franz, "Das Internationale Slavistenkomitee", in: Bulletin der Deutschen Slavistenkomitee 2 (1996) ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.7 MB), pp. 74–76, here p. 74. 
6. ↑ See the official congress homepage ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
7. ↑ See the list on the congress homepage ( Memento from September 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )