Proposed Panels for 2008 AATSEEL ConferenceThis website is regularly updated with newly proposed panels. LinguisticsPanel: Slavic Morphology and MorphosyntaxOrganizer: Irina V. Ivliyeva, The Missouri University of Science and Technology (Formerly UMR) Address: Arts, Languages, and Philosophy Department 500 West 14th Street, 214 H/SS Rolla MO 65409 Phone: (573)341-4627 Fax: (573)341-6312 Email: ivliyeva@mst.edu Panel Description: Various topics on Slavic Morphology and Morphosyntax: synchronic and diachronic approaches. Panel: Czech Linguistics Organizer: Masako Fidler, Brown University Address: Department of Slavic Languages 20 Manning Walk, Box E Brown University Providence, RI 02912-9105 Telephone: (401) 863-2689 Fax: (401) 863-7330 Email: masako_fidler@brown.edu Panel: Contrastive West Slavic Linguistics Organizer: Gary H. Toops, Wichita State University Address: Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages 1845 N. Fairmount Wichita State University Wichita KS 67260-0011 Telephone: (316) 978-5626 Fax: (316) 978-3293 E-mail: gary.toops@wichita.edu Brief description: Presenters on this panel will discuss research on linguistic phenomena in two or more West Slavic languages as viewed from a contrastive perspective (e.g., contrastive studies of tense and aspect, historical grammar [phonology or morphology], synchronic morphosyntax or derivational morphology, etc.). Panel: New developments in Slavic linguistics Organizer: Johanna Nichols, University of California Berkeley Address: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, mailcode 2979 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-1097 Fax: (510) 642-6220 email: johanna@berkeley.edu Brief description: Abstracts from any area of Slavic linguistics informed by current developments in general linguistics (e.g. theory, corpora, experimentation, frequency-based explanation, etc.) Literature and CulturePanel: Nabokov and Platonism?Organizer: Matthew Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison Address: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Wisconsin-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Drive Madison WI 53706 Telephone: (608)698-8346 Fax: (608)265-2814 Email: mpwalker@wisc.edu Panel Description: The session will revisit the question of Nabokov and Platonism. Papers may focus on the relation of Nabokov's works to those of Plato as well as to those of Neoplatonic philosophy. New perspectives on the problem are welcome, as are reexaminations of perspectives advanced by previous scholarship. Panel: Medical Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Russian Realism Organizer: Brian Johnson Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison Address: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Wisconsin-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Dr. Madison WI 53706 Email: brjohnson@wisc.edu Panel Description: This session will examine the appropriation of medical discourse into Russian realism, broadly defined, ranging from the Natural School to Chekhov. Papers may focus on topics such as the role of medical discourse in the formation of early realism, the artistic strategies behind the inclusion of medical discourse, and the viability of the term "medical realism" as a technique of or sub-genre of realism. Panel: The Sentimental Education of Poetic Utterance Organizer: Inessa Medzhibovskiaia, The New School for Liberal Arts, and Ruth Rischin Address: Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts 65 West 11th Street, Room 055 New York NY 10011 Telephone: (212) 229-5100 x2255 Email: medzhibi@newschool.edu, ruthrischin@yahoo.com Panel: Translation Today: Theory, Practice, Professionalism Organizer: Alexander Burak, University of Florida Address: Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies 263 Dauer Hall Gainesville, FL 32611 Telephone: (352) 392-2101 ext. 219 Fax: (352) 392-1067 E-mail: alburak@ufl.edu Equipment: A computer connected to the Internet hooked up to a large screen Workshop: Translating Russian Poetry Organizer: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College Address: Modern Languages Swarthmore College 500 College Ave. Swarthmore PA 19081-1390 Email: sforres1@swarthmore.edu Workshop Description: For readers and translators of Russian poetry, as well as Russian poets curious about the translating process: a two-hour session devoted to three poems from different periods of Russian literary history. Participants will receive interlinear versions of the poems, (authors and titles will be listed here once they are selected), and discuss the style, citationality, and contents of the poems, while working towards collaborative English versions. All theoretical perspectives are welcome, but this will be a practical, hands-on workshop, moderated by the chair but powered by participants. Roundtable: Czech Translation Organizer: Craig Cravens, Univ. of Texas at Austin Address: Slavic Languages Austin, TX 78713 Telephone: (512) 232-9125 Fax: (512) 471-6710 Email: svejk@mail.utexas.edu Roundtable Description: Issues of translation from Czech to another language. Topics include recent translated works, supporting translation of Czech literature, what needs translating, theoretical issues in translating literary works into another language, and specifics of translating literary works. Panel: Czech literature Organizer: Susan Kresin, UCLA Address: 322 Humanities Box 951502 Univ. of California Los Angeles, CA 90095-1502 Telephone: (310) 453-3442 Email: kresin@humnet.ucla.edu Panel: Music and Literature Organizer: Alexander Burry, Ohio State University Address: 345 Hagerty Hall 1775 College Road Columbus OH 43210 Telephone: (614) 247-7149 Email: burry.7@osu.edu Panel Description: Topics may include musical transpositions of literature (opera, song, etc.), musicality of a literary work, and other aspects of the interrelationship between music and literature. Panel: Petersburg in Peril: Artistic Subjects and Objects in the 20th Century Organizer: Julie Buckler, Harvard University Address: Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge MA 02138 Telephone: (617) 496-4916 Fax: (617) 496-4466 Email: buckler@fas.harvard.edu Seeking discussant and chair Pedagogy and Second Language AcquisitionPanel: Technology Applications in the Slavic Language ClassroomOrganizer: Svetlana Dembovskaya, Loyola University Chicago, and Lyudmila Klimanova, Cornell College, Iowa Modern Languages and Literatures Department Address: Damen Hall 305 6525 N. Sheridan Rd Chicago IL 60626 (Dembovskaya) 1111 University Capital Center Iowa City IA 52242 (Klimanova) Telephone: (773)508-2850 (Dembovskaya), (319)594-1451 (Klimanova) Email: sdembov@luc.edu, lyudmila-klimanova@uiowa.edu Panel Description: Panel may include papers on the following topics: * CALL methodology: new developments and applications * blended instruction: multimedia component in language curriculum * innovative multimedia projects * using video, audio, podcasts, skypecasts, blogs, social networking, and computer mediated communication (synchronous and asynchronous modalities) in language learning * CALL applications in autonomous language learning * teacher and learner perspectives on and attitudes towards the use of technology Roundtable: Current Issues in Teaching Czech Organizer: Holly Raynard, University of Florida Address: PO Box 117342 Gainesville, FL 32611-7342 Telephone: (352) 392-8902 x 208 Fax: (352) 392-8966 Email: hraynard@ufl.edu December 28th (afternoon) Roundtable description: The panel will focus on several issues related to teaching of Czech language, such as heritage speakers in the classroom, integrating culture and language, use of technology, sharing teaching and other resources, establishing a place for Czech in Slavic Studies on the micro- and macro levels within the university community. Panel: Teaching Language through Literature Organizer: Natalia Pokrovsky 370 Barker Center Slavic Department Harvard University 12 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617) 496-0625 Fax: (617) 496-4466 e-mail: pokrovsk@fas.harvard.edu
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