MLA 2005 Calls for Papers

[Lilya Kaganovsky]

Dear SEELANGs members:

On behalf of the Slavic and East European Literatures Division of the
MLA, I am posting the following calls for papers for the next MLA
Convention in Washington DC (27-30 December 2005). Please note
deadlines for abstract submissions and reply directly to panel
organizers. All the participants must be current MLA members by April
7. There is cross-registration between AATSEEL and MLA for the two
conventions.


Panels:

"Dracula: Between Nationalism and Empire." Session on vampirism and
Dracula to discuss nationalism and the demonization of the
geopolitical, racial, and religious Other in folklore, media,
literature, and film. Abstracts by 15 Mar,; Dragan Kujundzic
(dragan at uci.edu).

"Nabokov, Transnational Hybrid." Mercurial defier of national,
linguistic, and cultural categories, Nabokov moved from Russia to
Europe to America, reinventing and juxtaposing them in his works.
Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Hilde Hoogenbloom (hoogenbloom at macalester.edu).

"The Cultural Politics of Putin's Russia: New Cynicism, New Censorship,
and Beyond." Abstracts on developments in literature and other cultural
forms by 15 Mar.; Vitaly Chernetsky (vchernet at fas.harvard.edu).

"On TV." Television shows, news, serials, censorship, etc., in
post-1989 Europe and Russia. Crime shows, sex & violence, nostalgia,
talk shows, war coverage, soap operas, and other current events.
Abstracts by Mar 20.; Lilya Kaganovsky (lilya at uiuc.edu).



Sincerely,
-Lilya Kaganovsky


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Lilya Kaganovsky, Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Program in Comparative Literature & World Literature
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
Unit for Cinema Studies

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