Master Classes and Workshops at the 2009 AATSEEL Conference

[Dianna Murphy]

Dear SEELANGERS,

On behalf of Alexander Burry, Chair of the 2009 AATSEEL Conference Program Committee, and all members of the AATSEEL Program Committee and Executive Council, I am very pleased to announce the following special events at the 2009 AATSEEL Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from December 27-30.  

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MASTER CLASSES
AATSEEL announces two innovative Master Classes, led by renowned scholars who will provide AATSEEL members with an intensive introduction and overview of the seminar leader’s area of expertise. 

Master Class 1: "Tools for Teaching the post-Boom Bakhtin — as Philosopher, Carnivalist, Post-Modernist, Formalist, and ‘Dialogic Classic.’"  This seminar will focus on contemporary approaches to cultural theorist M.M. Bakhtin and how they can be usefully deployed to read a work of literature. The seminar will be led Professor Caryl Emerson, Princeton University.
                    
Master Class II:  "Approaching the Nineteenth-Century Novel as Art Form, Enterprise, and Institution." This seminar will lead participants through the pioneering work of Professor William Mills Todd III on the 19th-c. Russian novel. Led by Professor William Mills Todd III, Harvard University.

Master Classes are limited to 15 participants, who must be current members of AATSEEL and pre-registered for the 2009 Conference.  Participants will receive a list of recommended readings (not to exceed 30 pages), as well as study questions, in mid-October. 

To register:  Email AATSEEL Program Committee Chair Alexander Burry at burry.7 at osu.edu.  Be sure to indicate in your email:
1) that you are a current member of AATSEEL,
2) that you have pre-registered for the 2009 AATSEEL Conference in Philadelphia,
3) which Master Class you would like to attend.

Master Classes will continue to be offered at next year’s AATSEEL Conference in Los Angeles, California, on January 6-9, 2011, when Prof. Boris Gasparov (Columbia University) leads a seminar on semiotics and its applications in the present day.  The AATSEEL Executive Council welcomes suggestions for future topics and leaders.  Suggestions or questions should be directed to Julie Cassiday at Julie.A.Cassiday at williams.edu.
 
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WORKSHOPS
We are also very pleased to announce the following two workshops, to be held at the 2009 AATSEEL Conference.  Participation is limited to AATSEEL members who pre-register for the conference. 

Workshop I: "Intensity of Engagement"
Professor Benjamin Rifkin (Dean, School of Culture and Society, The College of New Jersey; Past President of AATSEEL)
This workshop will present the principles and demonstrate a new approach to making the learner more engaged in classroom learning; materials used in the demonstration will be drawn from Russian literature used in a language classroom so that participants could see how this strategy could be deployed in language, literature or culture classes in Russian and literature and culture classes taught in English translation. Organized by: Viktoria Driagina-Hasko, University of Georgia.

Workshop II: "Translation Workshop"
Professor Sibelan Forrester (Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College; Past President of AATSEEL) 
This workshop will focus on translation of Russian poetry, focusing on one nineteenth-century, one Silver Age, and one contemporary poetic "podstrochnik," which will be distributed on paper at the workshop or may be requested a few weeks before the conference. Everyone is welcome to attend and contribute to the discussion; presenters of "podstrochniki" will be invited - anyone interested in presenting should contact the organizer. 

To register for a workshop:  Email Alexander Burry at burry.7 at osu.edu.  Be sure to indicate in your email:
1) that you are a current member of AATSEEL,
2) that you have preregistered for the 2009 AATSEEL Conference in Philadelphia, 
3) which Workshop you would like to attend.

For more information about the 2009 AATSEEL Conference: www.aatseel.org.  We look forward to seeing many of you in Philadelphia in December.

Best regards,
Dianna Murphy
AATSEEL Conference Manager

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Dianna L. Murphy, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Language Institute
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1322 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Avenue
Madison, WI  53706
Tel. (608) 262-1575
Fax (608) 890-1094
Skype: diannamurphy

Language Institute: www.languageinstitute.wisc.edu
Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition: www.sla.wisc.edu 

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