An invitation to attend Slavic panels at the MLA

[Amy Mandelker]

To those attending the annual AATSEEL meeting in Chicago, I would like to
draw your attention to the panels that have been organized by the Slavic
Executive Committee of the MLA and by AATSEEL, as an MLA-affiliate
organization.  These are as follows (in order of event):


Monday, December 27:  1:45-3:00 p.m., Parlor G, Sheraton
"The Politics of Citation"
Arranged by AATSEEL
Presiding:  Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College

1. "The Politics of Citation and Censorship in the PMLA"
    Amy Mandelker, Graduate Center, City University of New York

2.  "If I Didn't Publish, How Would you Know What I Think?:  The Forgotten
Books of Prince Vladimir Odoevsky"
    Ellen Scaruffi, Columbia University

3. "`Un drole de russe': Andrei Makine's Intrusion into French Literature"
    Adrian  J. Wanner, Pennsylvania State University


Tuesday, December 28, 12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Huron, Sheraton
"Russian and East European Theory"
Arranged by AATSEEL
Presiding:  David A. Goldfarb, Barnard College

1.  "The Russian Formalists: Precursors to Canon Theory"
    Andrea D. Lanoux, University of California, Los Angeles

2.  "Russian Theory after Communism: Ryklin with Groys,"
    Dragan Kujundzic, University of Memphis


Tuesday, December 28, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Parlor F, Sheraton
"Genocide, Narrative, and Memory"
Arranged by the Division on Slavic and East European Literatures
Presiding:  Harriet Murav, University of California, Davis

1.  "Genocide, History, and Memory in Contemporary Armenian Fiction,"
    Robert H. Sirabian, Mississippi Valley State University

2.  "Some Yesterdays Are Still Alive:  Memory and Narrative in Arnost
Lustig's Darkness Casts no Shadow"
    John Ulrich, Mansfield University

3.  "How Latvians Remember:  Narrative and Memory in Soviet and Post-Soviet
Latvia"
    Nora D. Teikmanis, Graduate Center, City University of New York

4.  "Remembering the Russian Revolution:  Apocalypse at Opposite Ends of the
Century"
    Oliver I. Mackson, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Tuesday, December 28,  7:15-8:30, Parlor D, Sheraton
"Narratives of Fashion"
Arranged by the Division on Slavic and East European Literatures
Presiding: Amy Mandelker, Graduate Center, City University of New York

1.  "Black Leather and Venus in Furs:  Russian Style"
    Helena Goscilo, University of Pittsburgh

2.  "Blue Smocks, a Silver Watch, and the Signifying Garter: Identity and
Identification in `The Mystery of Marie Roget' and `The Jew's Beech'"
    Erica F. Obey, Graduate Center, City University of New York

3.  "The Medusa Complex: Big Hair, Bad Hair, and Russian Women Authors of the
Fin de siecle"
    Christine D. Tomei, Columbia University

Respondent:  Anja Grothe, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Wednesday, December 29  8:30-9:45 a.m.,  Ohio, Sheraton
"Russian Literature and North American Intellectual Culture"
Arranged by the Discussion Group on Slavic Literatures and Cultures
Presiding:  David A. Goldfarb, Barnard College

1.  "The Metaphysics of Winter:  Canada and Russia"
    Douglas Cooper, New York

2.  "The Modern Library Dostoevsky: Haskala Comes to America"
    Harriet Murav, University of California, Davis


Wednesday, December 29,  12:00 noon- 1:15 p.m. Mississippi, Sheraton
"Borders"
Arranged by the Division on Slavic and East European Literature
Presiding: Helena Goscilo, University of Pittsburgh

1. "Breaking Borders, Building Borders:  The Two Columbian Journeys of a
Bulgarian `Westerner'"
    Nikita Nankov, Indiana University

2.  "The Semiotic and the Symbolic in Nina Sadur's `Rings' and Marina
Kulakova's `A River Named for the Master'"
    Benjamin Sutcliffe, University of Pittsburgh

3.  "The Crooked Mirror: Revisions and Restagings"
    Julie Buckler, Harvard University

4.  "Falling to Pieces: Body Parts and the New Soviet Man"
    Justin Weir, Reed College


Wednesday, December 29,  9:00-10:15 p.m.,  Parlor D, Sheraton

Open Meeting on Central and East European Literatures Arranged by the
Discussion Group on Hungarian Literature, Slavic Literatures and Cultures,
and Romanian Studies