AATSEEL conference, Jan. 8-11, 2015: program now online!

[Rebecca Jane Stanton]

AATSEEL warmly invites all those interested in Slavic and East European
studies to attend our upcoming conference in Vancouver, BC, January 8-11,
2015!  The pre-registration deadline for participants is *Oct. 15*; for
non-participants, Dec. 15.

In addition to over sixty panels and roundtables on Slavic languages,
literatures, and cultures, the conference will feature a number of special
events, including:

   - a keynote address, “Movement and Generation: Towards Nominalism in Art
   and Literature,” by Mikhail Iampolski (NYU);
   - two advanced seminars, "From Benya Krik to Pussy Riot: Tricksters in
   Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture," led by Mark Lipovetsky (University of
   Colorado-Boulder) and "Approaches to 18th Century Literature," led by
   Marcus Levitt (USC);
   - three Presidential Panels, featuring recent books by John Burt Foster
   and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (tr. Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov),
   and a roundtable discussion on "Changing Contexts and New Outcomes for the
   Languages and Cultures of the Post-Soviet Space";
   - a translation workshop with Boris Dralyuk, Sibelan Forrester, Maria
   Khotimsky, and Margo Rosen;
   - coffee breaks with leading scholars: Eric Naiman (Berkeley), Donna
   Orwin (University of Toronto), and Ilya Vinitsky (Penn);
   - poetry readings by Polina Barskova and Vasyl Makhno;

and more!  For detailed program information and registration links, please
see the AATSEEL website at http://www.aatseel.org/program/ .

The MLA Convention in Vancouver at the same time also features a number of
panels on Slavic topics, listed at http://mlaslavic.blogspot.com/.  AATSEEL
offers discounted registration for attendees who also register for MLA; for
more information, see http://www.aatseel.org/registration.

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