CFP: MLA 2017

Reading Eastern Europe Digitally: Promises for the New Millennium

What does the Digital Age hold in store for Eastern European cultures? In an era dominated by the opening of secret archives, by an intense re-writing of the socialist past, the opportunities offered by a wide dissemination of texts and works of art too long hidden…[Read more]

Cultural Studies Issues within the Second World Spaces
full name / name of organization:
Modern Language Association (Romanian Forum – MLA) Philadelphia, PA, January 2017
contact email:
ada_g@att.net
How are new(er) cultural studies issues received, negotiated, challenged, embraced, or rejected within the spaces of the Second World?
Since the…[Read more]

Call for Papers
CONFLICT AND CONTROVERSY in Small Cinemas
(7th International Conference in Small Cinemas)
The Jagiellonian University
Krakow, Poland, September 28-30, 2016
DEADLINE: April 30, 2016
The topic of the conference is CONFLICT AND CONTROVERSY — the divisive areas in contemporary societies and the ways in which they are presented in…[Read more]

Teaching Central/Eastern Europe And Its Communist Past

Modern Language Association (MLA) Philadelphia, PA, January 2017

Central/Eastern Europe’s cultural visibility has increased since the 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall and then in 2009 when Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller received the Nobel Prize in Literature. In light of this new…[Read more]

Call for Papers
CONFLICT AND CONTROVERSY in Small Cinemas
(7th International Conference in Small Cinemas)
The Jagiellonian University
Krakow, Poland, September 28-30, 2016
DEADLINE: April 30, 2016
The topic of the conference is CONFLICT AND CONTROVERSY — the divisive areas in contemporary societies and the ways in which they are presented in…[Read more]

Refugees, Exiles and Migration: Past and Present Journeys
MLA – RSAA Panel, Philadelphia, January 2017
This panel addresses narratives of crisis and the role of media in order to engage with cultural examinations of current and past identity constructions of refugees, exiles, and migrant communities in post-communist Eastern Europe.

Focusing…[Read more]