Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!

[Helena Goscilo]

Colleagues,

Those who will be attending AATSEEL in Toronto before Staryi Novyi God may
wish to visit lesser divinities or larger zoos, i.e. the MLA.

Slavic panels at this year's MLA include:

1. #182.  BLOOD AND NATION (not a metasession on the profession!):
          (1:45 - 3:00, Sunday 28 Dec.: Norfolk Room at Sheraton Centre)

   1. "The Birth of a Nation in Stalinist and Thaw Film: Blood and Warrior
      in ALEKSANDR NEVSKII, DON QUIXOTE, and HAMLET," A. Prokhorov, U of
      Pittsburgh

   2. "Nation, Blood, and Identity in Milod Pavic and Emir Krusturica,"
      K.S. Ravetto, U of Ca., LA

   3. "Sacred Blood, Spilled Blood: The Cossacks in Gogol and Babel,"
      G. Rosenshield, U of Wisconsin, Madison

   4. "Rozanov, God's Body, and the Jews," H. Teplitz and A. Arkhipov,
      Stanford U

   RESPONDENT: S.L. Gilman, U of Chicago


2. #396: SEX AND DEATH
         (12:00 - 1:15, Monday 29 Dec.: Norfolk Room, Sheraton Centre)

    1. "Gogol: Funereal Eroticism and Horny Vampires," V. Todorov, U of
       Pa

    2. "De Sade and Dostoevsky: Sovereignty in Transfression," N.
       Lawrence, Stanford U

    3. "Lilith and Eve as Metapoesis in Fedor Sologub's LEGEND IN
       CREATION," C.K. Cosner, U of Illinois, Urbana

    4. "Culture beyond Pornography: Sexual Transgression in Woody
       Allen, David Cronenberg, and Valeriia Narbikova," S. Roll,
       McGill U

    RESPONDENT and Chair: H. Goscilo


3.  #630: TOTALITARIAN ART
          (10:15 - 11:30, Tuesday 30 Dec., York Room, Sheraton
           Centre)

    1. "Fear and Fiction: Official Soviet Lit. on the Soviet
       Prison Camps," D. Toleczyk, U of Va

    2. "The Body and the Machine in Soviet and German Industrial
       Posters of the 1930s," E. Prokhorova, U of Pittsburgh

    3. "Afterimages of Totaliraian Visual Culture in Germany," C.
       Scribner, Columbia U

     Chair: C.A. Cavanagh, U of Wisconsin, Madison


4.  #666: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE
          (12:00 - 1:15, Tuesday 30 Dec., Elgin Room, Sheraton Centre)

     1. "The Trope of Displacement and Identity Construction in
        Postcolonial Ukrainian Fiction," V. Chernetsky, Columbia U

     2. "The Sweetest Poison of Enslavement: The Western Other as a
        Better Bulgarian Self," N.D. Nankov, Indiana U, Bloomington

     3. "The Road less Traveled: Tracing National Identity in Iva
        Pekarkova's Writing," P.M. Pavliscak, U of NC, Chapel Hill

     4. "Recycling the Colonial Metaphor: Croatians Go to the Congo,"
        N. Petkovic, U of Texas, Pan American

     RESPONDENT: D. Kujundzic, U of Memphis
     Chair: T.Z. Longinovic, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Apologies for absence of diacritics and consequent insults to ethnic
identities!

Helena Goscilo, also dediacriticized