“Connecting Libraries and Research on Eastern Europe: Strengthening the Collaboration for Knowledge”will be held May 27-29, 2024 at and jointly with the National and University Library of Strasbourg (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg BNU).
The focus of the conference will be on a comparative analysis of the services, projects and current developments both in research on Eastern, Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe and in the thematically related library and documentation infrastructures.
We are delighted to announce that the next COSEELIS conference will take place in Oxford in June.
We welcome ideas for individual papers or panels and roundtables on all aspects of research and collection development, projects and initiatives in the field of Slavonic librarianship and curatorship. Please email Katya Rogatchevskaia (katya.rogatchevskaia@bl.uk) or another Committee member.
We are happy to let our memebers know that next year’s ABDOS conference will take place at the National and University Library in Strasbourg (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire BNU Strasbourg) from 27th to 29th May 2024.
The BNU is the leading library for collecting publications on the Baltic countries in France and is also one fo the major French players as far as East European/Slavonic materials as a whole are concerned.
A conference on the role of Vacłaŭ Łastoŭski and other linguists in the Belarusian cultural discourse of the 1920-30s is going to take place in London and online on 10-11 November 2023. Scholars from Belarus, Poland, Czechia, Britain and Lithuania are taking part. The working language is Belarusian.
Belarusian linguistics played a massive role in the intellectual and cultural discourse on the 1920-30s when the exciting processes of formation of the new Belarusian reality were taking place. Vacłaŭ Łastoŭski (1883–1938) stands out among them: a writer, historian, linguist, ethnographer, and public and political figure. We are celebrating his 140th anniversary this year.
Also this year, we celebrate the anniversaries of other outstanding figures: writers and linguists Maksim Harecki (1893–1938), Jazep Losik (1883–1940), and Ściapan Niekraševicč (1883–1937). Together with Łastoŭski, they shaped the foundations of modern Belarusian linguistics and historiography, wrote dictionaries, grammars, and literary reviews; were at the origins of Inbelkult and the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. They all were among the first victims of Stalin’s terror against the national intelligentsia.
The conference can be joined in person at the Francis Skaryna Belarusian library in London or online. The programme and registration can be accessed on Eventbrite: The organisers are: Czesław Miłosz Slavonic Studies Centre at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), Francis Skaryna Belarusian library and Museum (London, UK), Association of Belarusians in Great Britain (UK), Ivan Łuckievič Belarusian Museum (Vilnius, Lithuania).
COSEELIS - Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services 