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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 1 year agoThe purpose of this graduate course is to examine key texts of the twentieth century that established the fundamental connection between language structures and practices on the one hand, and the formation of selfhood and subjectivity, on the other. In particular, the course will focus on theories that emphasize the role of formal elements in…[Read more]
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John MacKay deposited Christ Among the Herdsmen: From Refugee to Propagandist (1918-1922) in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 1 year agoVertov’s early years in film: the Kino-Nedelia newsreels, the work on the agitational trains, the anti-religious propaganda films.
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John MacKay deposited The Beating Pulse of Living Life: Musical, Futurist and Newsreel Matrices (1916-18) in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 1 year agoVertov in 1917, and an investigation of some of his shaping contexts: musical practice, Futurist poetry, early non-fiction filmmaking, and Marxism.
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John MacKay deposited Social Immortality: David Kaufman at the Psychoneurological Institute (1914-1916) in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 1 year agoDziga Vertov’s education during the early years of World War: his changing personal situation as a war refugee, the connections he made at the Institute, the ideas that exerted an influence.
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John MacKay deposited Province of Universality: Vertov before the War (1896-1914) in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 1 year agoOn Dziga Vertov’s early life and the city (Bialystok) and situations in which he grew up.
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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 Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months 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 and East European Literatures on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months 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 NeMLA cfp for panels on Russian, Slavic & East European Lit – Hartford 2016 in the discussion
Slavic and East European Literatures on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago[Please feel free to post and circulate among your colleagues, grad students, and e-lists]
Dear Colleagues,
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) welcomes proposals for panels that focus on Russian, Slavic and East European Literatures. NeMLA is interested in seeing this area grow by offering more panels. Those who are interested in…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Still Accepting Proposals: “Russia & the Middle East” (Premodern-19th Cent.) in the discussion
Slavic and East European Literatures on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear 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 upd…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFPs for MLA 2016! Deadline March 15 in the discussion
Slavic and East European Literatures on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoFollowing 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 "Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) – MLA, Austin, 7–10 Jan. 2016 in the discussion
Slavic and East European Literatures on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 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 2016Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton posted an update in the group
Slavic and East European Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoAnd one more CFP:
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…[Read more] -
Rebecca Jane Stanton posted an update in the group
Slavic and East European Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoDear all,
Please note the following Slavic-related CFPs for the MLA 2015 conference!
The 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…[Read more]
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