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Special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society on Zizek

As mentioned in the description of the session "Zizek's East," Dusan Bjelić has edited a special issue of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society Volume 16, Issue 3 (September 2011) centered around the same topic as the panel.

Articles include:

*Dušan I Bjelić, "Žižek's Balkans: Geopolitical fractures in Žižek's universalism"
*Stathis Gourgouris, "Recoil from the Real? – Žižek out of Athens"
*Nikolay Karkov, "Balkan ghosts, western specters, and the politics of location: The case of Slavoj Žižek"
*Katerina Kolozova, "Slavoj Žižek imagining the Balkans"
*Sean Homer, "Time to get serious"
*Dušan I Bjelić, "Is the Balkans the Unconscious of Europe?" (Free access via website)

Session Times & Rooms Announced

Thursday, 05 January
151. Language, Literature, and . . . ? New Models for Foreign Language Departments
7:00–8:15 p.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

Friday, 06 January
181. Graphic Narratives Retelling History: Germany
[co-sponsored with the Division on European Literary Relations]
8:30–9:45 a.m., University, Sheraton

Saturday, 07 January
461. Žižek's East: Geopolitical Fractures in Žižek's Universalism
10:15–11:30 a.m., University, Sheraton

Saturday, 07 January
491. Food Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union
[AATSEEL-sponsored session]
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Seneca, Sheraton

Sunday, 08 January
699. Graphic Narratives Retelling History: Serbia and Bosnia
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virginia, Sheraton

The Slavic & East European Literatures Division of the MLA has sponsored or co-sponsored several sessions at the upcoming MLA Convention in Seattle (January 5-8, 2012). We will be posting exact times and locations of these sessions once they are approved and scheduled. For more information, please contact Jessie Labov (labov.1 at osu dot edu).

You can follow the links below to find descriptions of each session, as well as some abstracts and bios of the participants.

Session I (Panel): Graphic Narratives Re-telling History: Germany
(co-sponsored by the European Literary Relations Division)

Session II (Panel): Graphic Narratives Re-telling History: Serbia & Bosnia

Session III (Panel): Žižek's East: Geopolitical Fractures in Žižek's Universalism

Session IV (Roundtable): Language, Literature, and ... ? New Models for Foreign Language Departments

Session V (Panel): Food Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union

(co-sponsored by AATSEEL)