Dear Nabokovians:

I will be in Pasadena This Friday through Sunday noon for AATSEEL and MLA.  I hope to organize a gathering of any Nabokov Society members who are present; such meetings usually take place after one of the organized panels at a local venue.  I suggest we meet for dinner after the Friday panel, Nabokov and Readership. 5:15–6:30 pm, Platinum Salon I, J. W. Marriott. Not knowing the neighborhood, I hope that someone else can suggest a nearby, moderately priced yet delicious restaurant. Please send suggestions to me today, if possible (sblackwe@utk.edu).   If those who can attend such a dinner will RSVP to me, I'll try to make a reservation to hold a table for us.  Please begin thinking about panel themes to propose for next year's MLA meeting in Seattle. We have one guaranteed panel, and we can also propose another panel or collaborate with another author society on a proposal.  The panel proposals will be due very soon, and we'll discuss as much as we can on Friday.

Looking forward to seeing some of you there!

Stephen Blackwell
Vice-President, Vladimir Nabokov Society

FYI, Nabokov papers at MLA and AATSEEL include:

MLA:

Friday, 7 Jan. 378. Nabokov and Readership

5:15–6:30 p.m., Platinum Salon I, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society

Presiding: Christopher A. Link, State Univ. of New York, New Paltz

1. “Author or Authoritarian? Nabokov’s Realities and Cold War Confessional Discourse,” Jeffrey Clapp, Univ. of California, Irvine

2. “Aggressive Tendencies: Lolita and the Conscripted Reader,” Keith M. Wilhite, Duke Univ.

3. “‘The Marvel of Consciousness’: Nabokov’s Theory of Reading from a Phenomenological Point of View,” Flora Keersmaekers, Ghent Univ.

4. “The False Azure in the Windowpane: Pale Fire as Commentary on the Act of Translation,” Corinne Laura Scheiner, Colorado Coll.

Thurs, 6 Jan. 80. Nabokov under Revision

1:45–3:00 p.m., Plaza I, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society

Presiding: Ellen I. Pifer, Univ. of Delaware, Newark

1. “Nabokov and the Transnational Canon,” Rachel V. Trousdale, Agnes Scott Coll.

2. “Lolita’s Novelty,” Michael W. Clune, Univ. of South Florida

3. “Pale Fire’s Black Crown,” James Ramey, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa

4. “The Process of Revising The Original of Laura,” Jacqueline Hamrit, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3

Sun., 9 Jan.  786A. Lives of Remarkable People: Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir in the Slavic World

1:45–3:00 p.m., 409A, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Slavic and East European Literatures

Presiding: Emily D. Johnson, Univ. of Oklahoma

1. “The Real Life of Vladimir Nabokov; or, Nabokov in Lives of Remarkable People,” Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard Coll.


At AATSEEL, at the Pasadena Hilton, we have

January 7, 2011 8:00am-10:00am

7A-4 Panel: The Economics of Culture (Room: International Ballroom West)

Panel Chair: Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California

Panelist: Yuri Leving, Dalhousie University 
Title: The Writer as His Own Literary Agent (Vladimir Nabokov and his Publishers)

January 7, 2:15pm-4:15pm

7C-2 Panel: Dostoevsky in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Room: San Diego)

Panelist: Evgeniya Koroleva, CUNY Graduate Center 
Title: The Notes from Underground Intertext in Nabokov’s Despair

January 8, 8:00am-10:00am

8A-4 Panel: Dialogues and Intertexts in Russian Poetry and Prose (Room: Pacific C)

Panelist: Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee 
Title: Comparative Epistemologies: Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov

January 8, 3:45pm-5:45pm

8C-2 Panel: Reexaminations II: Literature as a Vehicle for Ideas (Room: Pacific A)

Panelist: Michal Oklot, Brown University 
Title: What did Rozanov and Nabokov See in Tiny Particles of Dust Spinning in a Band of Sunbeams? A Short Story of One Image
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