Call for Abstracts: Slavic/EE panels for next MLA Convention (January 2011)

[Jessie Labov]

To SEELANGS:

We would like to draw your attention to several sessions that have been
proposed for next year’s MLA Convention, sponsored by the Slavic Division &
Slavic Discussion Group, and by AATSEEL as an affiliate of MLA.  All
participants in convention sessions must be MLA members by 7 April 2010. 

The theme for the 2011 MLA Convention in Los Angeles will be "Narrating Lives."

If you are interested in submitting an abstract, please reply directly to
the organizers listed for each panel/roundtable by the deadline specified. 

Modern Language Convention
6-9 January 2011** 
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.mla.org/convention/

Panels sponsored by the MLA Slavic Division, Slavic Discussion Group & AATSEEL: 

“Private Correspondence, Self, and Story: Letters in Russia and Eastern
Europe.” Letter writing as a means of self-creation; the use of postal
communications in reconstructing individual biographies; letters as literary
texts. Abstracts, vitae by 1 March 2010; Emily Johnson
(emilydjohnson at ou.edu). [Panel sponsored by AATSEEL]
 
“Narratives of Departure, Narratives of Return.” Analyzing the narrative
approaches and media involved in relaying the bidirectional, postcommunist
encounters between Eastern Europe and the United States. 300-word abstracts
by 10 March 2010; Letitia Ileana Guran (letitia_guran at yahoo.com). [Panel
jointly sponsored by AATSEEL & Romanian Studies Association]

“Cultural Studies in Postsocialist Spaces.” Roundtable addressing the
development and implementation of cultural studies as a discipline in
Eastern Europe since 1991 against the backdrop of kuturologia and other
histories of social criticism. 350-word abstracts and by 15 March 2010;
Jessie Labov (labov.1 at osu.edu).
 
“Lives and Works of the East European Poets: Morality, Immorality,
Amorality.” The ethical stance of Eastern European poetry as reflected and
undercut by the poets' biographies. Abstracts by 1 March 2010; Michael
Wachtel (wachtel at princeton.edu).
 
“Lives of Remarkable People: Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir in the
Slavic World.” Current and past trends in life writing; genre issues; how
key publishing series evolved over time; close readings of specific texts.
Abstracts by 1 March 2010; Emily Johnson (emilydjohnson at ou.edu).
 
“Tolstoy in the Long 20th Century.” Tolstoy's career after 1890, place in
world literature; trends in reception: international, Soviet, post-Soviet;
films, theater, translations, editions; lessons from centennial. 250-word
abstracts by 15 March 2010; John Foster (jfoster at gmu.edu). [Panel jointly
sponsored by the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century
Literature]


**There will be no MLA convention in the 2010 calendar year, as the meeting
has been moved to early January, beginning in the 2010-2011 academic year.

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