International Congress of Slavists

The International Congress of Slavists is a Slavist quinquennial gathering for the humanities and social sciences. The first Congress was held in 1929 in Prague.cite web |url=http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/acs/geninfo1.html |title=Internationl Congress of Slavists |accessdate=2008-09-08 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=harvard.edu]

Forty countries worldwide are represented. Their chairs are members of the International Committee of Slavists (ICS), responsible for organizing the International Congress.

There are two parts to the Preidium.
*Full Presidium: six members from Slavic countries, and six members from non-Slavic countries.
*Reduced Presidium: current Slavic host country, immediately previous Slavic host country, one additional Slavic country, a non-Slavic country.

Congresses

* 1934, Warsaw, II
* 1939, planned for Belgrade but precluded because of World War II, III
* 1958, Moscow, IV
* 1963, Sofia, V
* 1968, Prague, VI
* 1973, Warsaw, VII
* 1978, Ljubljana and Zagreb, VIII
* 1983, Kiev, IX
* 1988, Sofia, X
* 1993, Bratislava, XI
* 1998, Cracow, XII
* 2003, Ljubljana, XIII
* September 10-16, 2008, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, XIV

References

ee also

* Slavic studies

External links

* [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/acs/geninfo2.html XIV Congress, general information]
* [http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:3K0Ur7xzyLYJ:www.utoronto.ca/ceres/conferences/macedonia.doc+%22International+Congress+of+Slavists%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us&client=firefox-a XIV Congress, timeline]