AATSEEL 2014 conference: One week to July 1 proposal deadline

[Sarah Bishop]

The 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of
Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) will be held in Chicago,
Illinois, January 9-12, 2014. The second and final deadline for submission
of proposals is *July 1, 2013*. For information about this meeting and
details about submission procedures, please see the Call for Papers at the
following site: http://www.aatseel.org/program/

Please note that if you are the organizer of a fully-formed panel proposal,
you only need to submit a single-paragraph description by the July 1
deadline. Once the panel is accepted, descriptions of individual papers for
such panels must be submitted by *September 30, 2013* to be included in the
program.

To submit a proposal, you must be an AATSEEL member in good standing for
2013-14, or request a waiver of membership from the Executive Director,
Elizabeth Durst <aatseel at usc.edu>. For information on AATSEEL membership,
details on conference participation, and guidelines for preparing
proposals, please follow the links from AATSEEL's homepage (
http://www.aatseel.org).

AATSEEL 2014 promises to be an intellectually vibrant occasion, featuring a
number of special events in addition to the usual array of panels and
roundtable on Slavic linguistics, pedagogy, literature and culture.  These
include:

*ADVANCED SEMINARS*

"Poetry and Biography," led by Prof. Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University

"Icon, Index, Symbol: Reading the Signs of Medieval Rus," led by Prof.
Michael S. Flier, Harvard University

*FEATURED WORKSHOP*

"Strategies and Tactics for Facilitating Discussion: Approaches for
Language, Literature, and Culture Classes," led by Prof. Benjamin Rifkin,
The College of New Jersey

*POETRY READINGS* by Valzhyna Mort, Yurii Milorava, and Rafael Levchin

*POETRY TRANSLATION WORKSHOP* led by Dr. Boris Dralyuk, UCLA

*PRESIDENTIAL PANELS* fostering discussion around three books: Rebecca
Stanton's* Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism*; Tim
Harte's* Fast Forward:  The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian
Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930*; and Kathleen Parthé, ed., *A Herzen Reader*
.

Please share this information with other colleagues in the field who
may not be current SEELANGS subscribers.



-- 
Sarah Clovis Bishop
Assistant Professor of Russian
Willamette University

sbishop at willamette.edu
503 370 6889

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