ASEEES Panel - Authority and Aesthetics of Absence

[*Meghan Vicks*]

Dear Colleagues,

I'm interested in organizing a panel for the 2011 ASEEES conference that 
explores the concept of absence (or, Nothingness, Zero, Voids, non-existence) 
in Russian literature, film, art, theory, culture studies, etc. In particular, I'm 
interested in the power and "authority" of absence and its analogues, and how 
authors and artists explore the power, functions, and aesthetics of absence 
and nothingness in their works. My own work concerns Victor Pelevin's play 
with emptiness and voids, as well as the aesthetics of nothingness found in 
Nabokov's oeuvre. Other authors and artists that I've considered for such a 
project include Gogol, Z. Krizhizhanovsky, Ilya Kabakov, Brodsky, and 
Petrushevskaya, among others.

Please respond to me off-list at meghan.vicks at gmail.com if you're interested 
in presenting a paper, or serving as discussant or chair.

Yours truly,

Meghan Vicks
PhD Candidate
Comparative Literature & Russian Studies
University of Colorado, Boulder

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