MLA Slavic Panels Update

[David Goldfarb]

Dear Colleagues,

All who will be in Chicago for AATSEEL and MLA are invited and encouraged
to attend the following panels on topics of interest to Slavists.  Please
note additions and changes from the published program and from Amy
Mandelker's previous posting:

Panel 260:  Russian and East European Theory
Tuesday, December 28, 12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Huron, Sheraton
Arranged by AATSEEL

Presiding:  David A. Goldfarb, Barnard College

"Revis(it)ing Jakobson:  The List-Trope Between the Metaphoric and the
        Metonymic Pole," Valentina Izmirlieva, Columbia University

"Postcolonialism in Eastern Europe: Ukrainian Theorizations,"
        Vitaly Chernetsky, Columbia University

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


Panel 439:  Russian Literature and North American Intellectual Culture
Wednesday, December 29  8:30-9:45 a.m.,  Ohio, Sheraton
Arranged by the Discussion Group on Slavic Literatures and Cultures

Presiding:  David A. Goldfarb, Barnard College

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

"The Unity of Diaspora:  Paul Robeson's Readings of Aleksandr
        Pushkin,"  Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University

"The Metaphysics of Winter:  Canada and Russia"
        Douglas Cooper (Novelist, author of _Delerium_ and _Amnesia_
        published by Hyperion), New York

There will also be an open business meeting of the Discussion Group on
Slavic Literatures and Cultures following the East European Theory panel.
We will convene promptly at 1:20 p.m. outside the Huron room at the
Sheraton and will find an amenable place to have lunch and discuss future
possibilities for the Slavic Discussion Group.  N.B.:  The Slavic
Discussion Group is not the same thing as the Slavic Division of the MLA,
though in recent years we have organized panels together to avoid overlap
and to insure that a range of topics is represented.

See you in Chicago,

David A. Goldfarb
Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic Languages
Barnard College
Columbia University
3009 Broadway                           dgoldfarb at barnard.edu
New York, NY 10027-6598                 http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb