Call for papers: Empire in Russian and Soviet Literature (ASEEES 2011)

[Edyta Bojanowska]

Call for papers: Empire in Russian and Soviet Literature (ASEEES 2011)

We would like to organize a block of 2-3 panels and a roundtable for the 
2011 ASEEES Convention in Washington, D.C. that would showcase the 
recent work on the theme of empire in Russian and Soviet literature.The 
idea is to schedule all the panels continuously on the same day and in 
the same room.Our goal is to create a coherent forum that would foster 
conversation and exchange of ideas, get together both junior and senior 
scholars who work on this topic, and reflect on the current state and 
future direction of the literary studies of empire. It would be great 
for all of us to get to know one another and perhaps set up an email 
list that would connect us beyond conferences. We have heard brilliant 
presentations on imperial themes over the last few years and we think 
the time is ripe for this event.

If you are interested in presenting, please send me the title of your 
presentation and a brief description by January 1, 2011 (the address is 
bojanows at rci.rutgers.edu <mailto:bojanows at rci.rutgers.edu>).Please also 
email me if you'd be interested in serving as a discussant or a 
chair.The panels would ideally cover a range of historical periods, 
authors, approaches, and geographical contexts. We are open to any 
themes, but these could include: relations between the Russian core and 
its peripheries; representations of imperial ethnicities, spaces, and 
temporalities; how peripheries "write back"; how various authors and 
texts "talk to" one another on imperial issues and what points of 
controversy and consensus emerge (if any); the relationship between 
Russian and Western European imperial discourses; interactions between 
empire, nation, class, and gender; relations between the state, public 
sphere, and literary discourses of empire; the problem of translation in 
the imperial context; continuities and contrasts between treatments of 
empire in the Tsarist and Soviet periods; approaches to coloniality; the 
conceptual range of the civilizing mission(s); the relevance of 
post-colonial theory to the Russian/Soviet evidence or what this 
evidence brings to post-colonial theory.

We look forward to hearing from you.

  Edyta Bojanowska (Rutgers Univ.) and Kathryn Schild (Tulane Univ.)

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Edyta Bojanowska
Assistant Professor of Russian Literature
Dept. of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
Rutgers University, 195 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901
ph: (732)932-7201, fax: (732) 932-1111
http://german.rutgers.edu/faculty/profiles/bojanowska.htm


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