Seeking a Participant for a Roundtable on Soviet & Post-Soviet Masculinities (AATSEEL '12)

[Olga Livshin]

Dear SEELANGers,

We are planning to organize a roundtable on Soviet and Post-Soviet masculinities at AATSEEL and have room for one more participant.  The time span covered by the roundtable is from the Brezhnev period to the Medvedev administration. Topics will range from the archetype of the "weak," ineffectual late Soviet man in nonconformist literature to the construction of post-Soviet masculinity as a double bind in film and to the cultural narratives of the Soviet -- Afghan war, with a focus on how representations of masculinity have shifted since the US-led invasion in 2001 and the beginning of the Putin era.  Participants include Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Brian Baer (Kent State University), Connor Doak (Northwestern University) and Olga Livshin (University of Alaska, Anchorage). We are open to dialogue about the thematic focus of the roundtable.  To join the roundtable, please contact us off-list at afol at uaa.alaska.edu or c-doak at northwestern.edu. !
 The deadline to submit the roundtable proposal is April 30.

All the best,
Olga Livshin
Connor Doak

Olga Livshin, Ph.D.
Department of Languages
University of Alaska, Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK 99507

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