CFP: 3rd Annual Slavic Studies Symposium at University of Toronto

[Joseph Schlegel]

CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd Annual Slavic Studies
Symposium, University of Toronto

Please join us for the 2012 Annual Slavic Studies Symposium hosted by the Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. This
symposium seeks to bring together graduate students from different departments
to showcase recent scholarship in the field of Slavic Studies at the University
of Toronto and to provide opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange. We
welcome young scholars from a broad spectrum of disciplines, including
literature, linguistics, history, philosophy, political science, film and
theatre studies, and other related fields.


The 2012 symposium will be
highlighted by two keynote speakers. The first keynote address will be
presented by Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New
York University. Professor Borenstein's recent work deals with
contemporary Russian popular culture, postmodernism, and theories of
cultural transmission and cultural change.   Published in 2008, his
latest book "Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture"
won the AWSS award for the best book in Slavic gender studies. He is currently
writing a second volume titled "Catastrophe of the Week: Apocalyptic
Entertainment in Post-Soviet Russia."
 
The second keynote address will be
given by Dragana Obradovic, who is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. Professor
Obradovic's work focuses on representations of Yugoslavia's dissolution in
literary discourses. She is interested in the intersections of historical,
journalistic and legal discourses in literature of war, and has recently
co-edited a book titled "Comparative Literary Understanding and the
Vicissitudes of Form" (forthcoming).

The dates for the symposium are April 15-16, 2012.

We invite graduate students to submit proposals for papers and/or panels dealing
with any aspect of Slavic studies. Proposals should be approximately 250-300
words in length and should be sent to uoftslavic2012 at gmail.com by March 11,
2012.

We look forward to your attendance and participation.

The Organizing Committee: Amanda Greber, Joseph Schlegel, Lukasz Sicinski

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