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 reposting the following calls for papers for the next MLA
Convention in Washington DC (27-30 December 2005). The deadlines for
abstract submissions have been extended to March 20 for the remaining
panels. Please reply directly to panel organizers.

Panels:

1. "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 20 Mar.; Hilde Hoogenboom (hoogenboom at macalester.edu).

2. "The Cultural Politics of Putin's Russia: New Cynicism, New
Censorship,
and Beyond." Abstracts on developments in literature and other cultural
forms. Abstracts by 20 Mar.; Vitaly Chernetsky
(vchernet at fas.harvard.edu).

3. "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 20 Mar.; Lilya Kaganovsky (lilya at uiuc.edu).

4. "Filming Slavic Culture and History." Cinematic representations of
totalitarian and post-totalitarian regimes, images of everyday life,
cinematic adaptations of literary works, and so forth.
Abstracts by 20 Mar.; Ben Sutcliffe (sutclibm at muohio.edu).

All the participants must be current MLA members by April 7. There is
cross-registration between AATSEEL and MLA for the two conventions.


-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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