The 2020 MLA Convention will be held in Seattle, 9–12 January 2020.
Below is a list of CFPs for the panels currently being constituted in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. Please note the specific submission requirements, deadline, and contact person(s) for each panel.
'On Theme'/'V teme': Sex and Text on the (Post-)Soviet Periphery
This panel explores textual representation of queer sexualities in Russian and East European contexts, from the early twentieth century to the present. Abstract (200-300 words) and CV.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas (vchernetsky@ku.edu ); Leah Feldman, U of Chicago (feldman.leah@gmail.com )
De-Occidentalizing Postcolonial Studies
How can cultures of modern non-Western empires (such as Russian, Ottoman, or Japanese) revise or enrich traditional postcolonial models? 200-word abstract and 3-page CV by March 15; Edyta Bojanowska (edyta.bojanowska@yale.edu)
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
Edyta M. Bojanowska, Yale U (edyta.bojanowska@yale.edu )
Eurasian Indigeneity
This panel explores the literatures, cultures, and experiences of indigenous peoples of Eurasia in local, global, and comparative contexts. 300-word abstracts and 2-page CV invited by 15 March 2019; Ann Komaromi (a.komaromi@utoronto.ca)
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
Ann L. Komaromi, U of Toronto (a.komaromi@utoronto.ca )
Eurovision!
Subversive camp or commercial kitsch? Nationalist propaganda or multicultural manifesto? Postwar relic or the future of entertainment? Music or theater? Neither? Both? What’s YOUR Eurovision? 200-word abstract and CV by March 15; Benjamin Paloff (paloff@umich.edu)
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
Benjamin Paloff, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor (paloff@umich.edu )
Central Asian Literature: Subjects and Worlds
A panel on Central Asian literature and its explorations of subjectivity, identity, nation-building, ideology, and postcolonial worlding.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2019
Naomi Caffee, Reed College (caffee@reed.edu )
Bad Art
This panel invites critical and theoretical work on the borders of aesthetic judgment—the critical approach to and aesthetic standing of texts that are unsuccessful, obnoxious, unintended, et cetera.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
Jacob Emery, Indiana U (jacemery@indiana.edu )
Representing the Camps: the Problem of Genre
A panel on fictionalization of camp experiences, the ethical implications of genre, the relationship of postwar documentary prose to the novel (realist, soc-realist, modernist). 200-word abstract and CV.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers U, New Brunswick (evanbusk@rci.rutgers.edu )
Rise of the Russian Right
This panel explores the politics and aesthetics of the literary imaginaries of the New Right in Russia and across the former Soviet Union more broadly. 200-word abstract and CV.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
Leah Feldman (feldman.leah@gmail.com)
and also of note:
Colonial Pacific Northwest
Scholars interested British/American, Russian, Spanish, and especially indigenous literatures are invited to submit 300-word abstracts that consider the Pacific Northwest with studies of European colonialism during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
Angelina Del Balzo, U of California, Los Angeles (adelbalzo@ucla.edu )
