Happy New Year to all! If you find yourself at the MLA Convention in New York City this week, please join us on Thursday, Jan. 4 for the presidential theme panel organized by the International Dostoevsky Society, “Dostoevsky and States of Insecurity.” Here are the details:
Session 150: Dostoevsky and States of Insecurity
Time: Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, 5:15–6:30 PM
Place: New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, “Midtown” Room
Program:
Presider: Carol Apollonio, Duke U.
“Sovereignty and Exception in Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky with Carl Schmitt”(Ilya Kliger, New York U)
“Arkady’s Overcoat: Illegitimacy and Characterization in Dostoevsky” (Chloë Kitzinger, Rutgers, the State U of New Jersey)
“‘Like a Cat around a Hot Saucer of Milk’: Dostoevsky’s Destabilizing Descriptions of Perverse Sexuality” (Zachary Johnson, U of California, Berkeley)
You may also be interested in the following Russian literature-related panels and papers:
Session 12: Revolution, Take 2: Exporting the Russian Revolution
Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, 12:00-1:15 PM (Hilton, Regent)
Participants include: Katerina Clark (Yale U.), Matthias Müller (Cornell U.), Darja Filippova (Princeton U.), Masha Salazkina (Concordia U.)
Session 289: Transatlantic Translations of Trans
Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, 12:00-1:15 PM (Hilton, Midtown)
Participants include: Jessie M. Labov (Central European U.), Brian James Baer (Kent State U.), Vitaly Chernetsky (U. of Kansas), Sandra Joy Russell (U. of Massachusetts, Amherst), Kārlis Vērdiņš (Washington U. in St Louis)
Session 394: Alternative Pasts and Futures in Postsocialist Science Fiction
Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, 3:30–4:45 PM (Hilton, Midtown)
Participants include: Jefferson J.A. Gattrall (Montclair State U.), Julia Gerhard (U. of Colorado, Boulder), Natalija Majsova (U of Ljubljana), Reed Johnson (U of Virginia)
Session 531: Meter, Rhyme, and Dialogue with the Other: Translating from Arabic, Russian, and Spanish into English, including a paper on translating Elena Fanailova
Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, 10:15 AM–11:30 AM (Hilton, Concourse C)
Participants include: Karen Emmerich (Princeton U.), Gregary Joseph Racz (Long Island U., Brooklyn), Sibelan Forrester (Swarthmore C), Mbarek Sryfi (U of Pennsylvania)
Session 636: Redefining Self-Translation, including two papers on Vladimir Nabokov’s translations of his own poetry and prose.
Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, 3:30–4:45 PM (Hilton, Concourse E)
Participants include: Genevieve Waite (Graduate Center, City U of New York), Jean-Christophe Cloutier (U. of Pennsylvania), Michael G. Boyden (Uppsala U.), Adrian J. Wanner (Penn State U.), Julia Titus (Yale U.)
Session 654: Literature of Waste and Environmental Insecurity in Central and Eastern Europe
Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, 3:30–4:45 PM (Hilton, Hudson)
Participants include: Julia Vaingurt (U of Illinois, Chicago), Heather I. Sullivan (Trinity U), Colleen McQuillen (U of Illinois, Chicago), Christopher Harwood (Columbia U)
Session 697: Bad Translation, including the paper: “The Russian Crime and Punishment in the Argentine Seven Madmen; or, How Bad Translations Made Good Literature”
Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, 5:15–6:30 pm (Hilton, Concourse F)
Participants include: Benjamin Paloff (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Bret Maney (Lehman C, City U. of New York), Ellen Elias-Bursac (American Literary Translators Assn.), Adel Fauztdinova (Boston U.)
Hope to see you there!
This list has been compiled by Chloë Kitzinger, a member of the North American Dostoevsky Society Readers’ Advisory Board and an Assistant Professor at Rutgers.
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