Eastern European panel at NEMLA

[Alexandar Mihailovic]

I am chairing a panel at the upcoming Northeast Modern Language Association
(NEMLA) convention, Êwhich will take place in Cambridge, ÊMA from March 31-April
2, Ê2005.    i am looking for additional paper proposals for the panel:

"Under Western Eyes: Post-Modern Perceptions of Eastern Europe"

What is the cultural status of the "other" Europe in the overlapping eras of the
collapse of the East bloc, the Balkan and Chechen wars, and the post-9/11 "War on
Terror"? To what extent does the idea of a Europe only recently touched by
economic globalism serve as an ethical foil for the individualistic codes of the United
States and Western Europe? Are such perceptions and cultural associations in
themselves illusions? Papers may draw on travelogues, journalistic accounts and
historiographical writing as well as fiction and poetry, and discuss writers from both
sides of the "torn" Iron Curtain. Send abstracts of no more than one page to
Alexandar Mihailovic (cllazm at hofstra.edu)

Papers should be no longer than 25 minutes.  I would need to receive proposals no
later than Friday,  October 1.

Cordially,

Alexandar Mihailovic
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Hofstra University
Hempstead, ÊNY Ê11549

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