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Anna Zofia Gąsienica Byrcyn deposited Ballads in the Polish Heritage Composition Class in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoAdam Mickiewicz’s “Lilije,” Miron Białoszewski “Lilie,” and Agnieszka Kuciak’s “Ballada elektroniczna” in a Polish heritage composition class.
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Anna Zofia Gąsienica Byrcyn deposited Fairy Tales in Polish Advanced Heritage Composition Classes in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPowerPoint on the use of Bolesław Leśmian’s Fairy Tales in Polish Advanced Heritage Composition Classes.
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited “Address your questions to Dostoevsky”: Privatizing Punishment in Russian Cinema. In: Russia’s New Fin de Siècle: Contemporary Culture between Past and Present. Edited by Birgit Beumers. Intellect: Chicago. in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe chapter offers a close reading of two cinematic cases, Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena (2011) and Govorukhin’s Voroshilov Sniper, in order to demonstrate in a reverse engineering move how publically executed punishments of the late 1990s were translated into quiet murders a decade later. This transition from ‘punishments outside the law’ to ‘crimes…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic FYI: MLA Panel (Jan. 7 @ 1:45 pm) on Russia & the Middle East (17th-19th Cent.) in the discussion
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:
48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW MarriottA special session
Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic Still looking for proposals: “Russia & the Middle East” (Premodern-19th Cent.) in the discussion
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am still looking for proposals for the panel on “Russia and the Middle East.” We welcome proposals that examine the interaction and cultural exchange between these two areas from the premodern period up to the nineteenth century. The extended deadline is March 21, 2015.
Here is the updated CFP and the new deadline:
131st…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFPs for MLA 2016! Deadline March 15 in the discussion
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago<div>Following is a list of the calls for papers for the 2016 MLA Convention (Austin, TX, January 7-10) for panels sponsored by the Russian and Eurasian Forum, the Slavic and East European Forum, and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 15 for all p…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) – MLA 2016 in the discussion
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016
Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Lenuta Giukin posted an update in the group
LLC Romanian on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
CRISIS IN FILM AND VISUAL MEDIA
An international conference hosted by Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania), September 19-20, 2014Co-organized by Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania), and Lithuanian Film Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania),
With the participation of keynote speakers dr. Dina Iordanova (University of St.…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2015! in the forum
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd one more:
New approaches to Crime and Punishment
Panel proposed by the International Dostoevsky Society
New approaches to Dostoevsky’s novel welcome. How well do existing socio-political, religious, biographical, and psychoanalytic readings serve this text? Abstracts, maximum one page, by 15 March 2014 to Susan McReynolds (susan.mcreynolds@gmail.com). -
Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFPs for MLA 2015! in the forum
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Cold War and Experimental Fiction
Panel proposed by the Slavic and East European Literatures Division
In what ways did the Cold War generate experimental narratives? What impact did the Cold War discourse have on unofficial literature? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2014 to Julia Vaingurt (vaingurt@uic.edu).Central and Eastern Europe in…[Read more]