Nabokov panel at AATSEEL 2008

[Inna Caron]

Dear Matthew,

If no one has yet taken it over, I would be quite interested in chairing your panel.
One of my students offered a Gnostic reading of Lolita as her term paper earlier last year. I will contact her as well to see if she is around to submit her abstract. 

Sincerely, 

Inna Caron
The Ohio State University

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Subject: [SEELANGS] Nabokov panel at AATSEEL 2008

Greetings Seelangers!

I am currently searching for a third paper to complete a Nabokov panel 
for this year's AATSEEL conference in San Francisco. The idea behind the 
panel ("Nabokov and Platonism?") is to reexamine the relation between 
Nabokov's works and those of Plato and Neoplatonic philosophy, but given 
that the term "Platonism" has become somewhat elastic these days (with 
Derrida, for instance, you could say it names just about everything that 
might fall under the category of Western thought) I will also consider 
papers that discuss Nabokov and any philosophy, any metaphysics, etc., 
etc., etc.

Also, if anyone is perhaps interested in chairing the panel or being a 
discussant, please contact me at mpwalker at wisc.edu.

Best,

Matthew Walker
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison

PS: Full information below...

Call for papers for the AATSEEL 2008 national conference, to be held 
December 27-30 in San Francisco, CA.

Panel: Nabokov and Platonism?
Panel Description: The session will revisit the question of Nabokov and 
Platonism. Papers may focus on the relation of Nabokov's works to those 
of Plato as well as to those of Neoplatonic philosophy. New perspectives 
on the problem are welcome, as are reexaminations of perspectives 
advanced by previous scholarship.

Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words (for additional guidelines, 
see http://www.aatseel.org/abstract_guidelines) and should be sent to 
Matthew Walker (mpwalker at wisc.edu).  The deadline is August 1, 2008, but 
sooner is always better.

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