Slavic Division-sponsored panels at upcoming MLA Convention, Jan 5-8, 2012 (Seattle, WA)

[Jessie Labov]

Dear SEELANGS Colleagues:

Please forward to anyone attending the upcoming MLA or AATSEEL conventions who might be interested.

The Slavic & East European Literatures Division of the Modern Language Association has sponsored/co-sponsored several sessions at the 127th MLA Convention in Seattle in Seattle, January 5-8, 2012 . 

You will find brief descriptions below. 

For more information about the Slavic Division as well as full descriptions of the panels with abstracts and bios, please see: 

http://mlaslavicdivision2012.blogspot.com/

or contact Jessie Labov <labov.1 at osu.edu>.

All sessions will take place in the Sheraton Hotel, 1400 6th Avenue Seattle, Washington 98101

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Session 151: "Language, Literature, and . . . ? New Models for Foreign Language Departments"
Thursday, 05 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m., Issaquah Room

Speakers: 
Thomas Garza (U. Texas, Austin)
Tomislav Longinovic (U. Wisconsin-Madison) 
Gabriella Safran (Stanford U.)
Lisa Wakamiya (Florida State U.)

Chair: Jessie Labov (Ohio State U.)

A roundtable on Slavic and other foreign language departments addressing the changing demands of students, administrators, and the profession itself. After a brief overview of the challenges presented by disciplinary paradigm shifts and the recent fiscal crisis, presenters will offer their ideas for viable solutions, work-arounds, and strategies that have been (or could be) successful in the face of institutional change.

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Session 181: "Graphic Narratives Retelling History: Germany"
Friday, 06 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., University Room
[co-sponsored with the Division on European Literary Relations]

Presiding: Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Ksenia Sidorenko (Yale U.), "Sequential Berlin: Jason Lutes's City of Stones Series"

Martha Kuhlman (Bryant U.), "Retelling History in the Borderlands: Jaroslav Rudiš's Alois Nebel and Bomber by Jaromír 99"

Elizabeth Nijdam (U. Michigan), "Re- telling German History with the Graphic Novel"

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Session 461: "Zizek's East: Geopolitical Fractures in Zizek's Universalism"
Saturday, 07 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., University Room

Presiding: Dragan Kujundzic (U. Florida)

Gautam Basu Thakur (Boise State U.), "The Menon-Zizek Debate, or, How to Read Zizek in a Post-Colonial Context"

Mario Slugan (U. Chicago), "Zizek on Film: The Unbearable Lightness of Interpreting

Dusan Bjelic (U. Southern Maine), "The Balkans: Radical Conservatism and Desire"

Respondent: Tomislav Longinovic (U. Wisconsin-Madison)

*Interested parties should note as well the September 2011 special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, edited by Bjelic, devoted entirely to the question of Zizek and the Balkans. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pcs/journal/v16/n3/index.html

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Session 491: "Food Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union"
Saturday, 07 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Seneca Room
[AATSEEL-sponsored session]

Presiding: Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Barnard College; Columbia University)

Bella Grigoryan (Yale University), “Finding "Poetry in Mayonnaise": Food Writing, Print Culture and the Reading Public in 19th-century Russia”

Ronald D. LeBlanc (University of New Hampshire), "Soviet Hamburgers: Stalin, Mikoyan, and the Fate of Boris Pilnyak's "Miaso: Roman"

Alison K. Smith (University of Toronto), "'Kremlin Cookery':  Late- and Post-Soviet Culinary Writing in Russia"

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Session 699: "Graphic Narratives Retelling History: Serbia and Bosnia"
Sunday, 08 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virginia Room
 
Presiding: Rossen Djagalov (Yale U.)

Lisa Mangum (Independent Publishing Resource Center), "The Novo Doba Festival of Non-Aligned Comics in Belgrade"

Damjana Mraovic-O'Hare (Penn State U.), "How We Survived War, Sanctions, and NATO Bombing, And Then Laughed: Regards from Serbia by Alexandar Zograf"

Jessie Labov (Ohio State U.), "Back into Bosnian: Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde Returns Home from War "

Respondent: Martha Kuhlman (Bryant U.)

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