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IVNS President Announcements re MLA
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EDITOR's NOTE. Ellen Pifer <epifer@odin.english.udel.edu> is the new
President of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society.
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Hello everyone. As the new president of the International
Vladimir Nabokov Society (IVNS), I first want to thank our past
president, Don Johnson, for his excellent stewardship during the past two
years. Happily, Don is still at the helm of the Nabokov-Forum, and very
much a presence (wise eminence) in Society's activities.
As those of you who follow this forum , and the
MLA's quarterly Newsletter, already know, the 1998 MLA sessions to be
sponsored by the IVNS were organized early last year. Calls for panel
topics and organizers went out last summer, so that session topics and
chairs could be announced in the Fall (97) MLA Newsletter. (Deadline for
those announcements is the end of July.)
Announcement of these sessions reappeared in the Winter 97 Newsletter,
and will be repeated in the Spring 98 one. Some proposals have already been
received, even though the final deadlines are in March. I
The topic for the VN Society's 98 AATSEEL session has also been
confirmed. The newly elected Vice-President of the IVNS, Galya Diment, will
chair the panel,
entitled "Vladimir Nabokov at the End of the Century, His and Ours." All
proposals, inquiries concerning deadlines, etc. should be addressed to her.
Getting an early start meant that we did not undergo the
last-minute rush of some previous years--when sessions had to be hastily
suggested and approved at the December MLA meeting--just in time
(barely) for announcement in the Spring MLA Newsletter.
To maintain this healthy lead time, I want to ask members of the
Forum to be thinking about possible topics for the 1999 MLA. Galya will soon
be issuing a Call for Topics/Organizers for both the 1999 MLA and 1999
AATSEEL sessions--the deadlines for which will fall in late spring or early
summer--before people have left campus for parts unknown. According to
the bylaws of the Society, the Vice-President is in charge of
coordinating all the panels and sessions conducted under the Society's
aegis. The VP is also responsible for organizing one of the two MLA
Convention sessions held annually during his/her tenure.
My best wishes to all for the New Year,
Ellen Pifer
EDITOR's NOTE. Ellen Pifer <epifer@odin.english.udel.edu> is the new
President of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society.
----------------------------------------
Hello everyone. As the new president of the International
Vladimir Nabokov Society (IVNS), I first want to thank our past
president, Don Johnson, for his excellent stewardship during the past two
years. Happily, Don is still at the helm of the Nabokov-Forum, and very
much a presence (wise eminence) in Society's activities.
As those of you who follow this forum , and the
MLA's quarterly Newsletter, already know, the 1998 MLA sessions to be
sponsored by the IVNS were organized early last year. Calls for panel
topics and organizers went out last summer, so that session topics and
chairs could be announced in the Fall (97) MLA Newsletter. (Deadline for
those announcements is the end of July.)
Announcement of these sessions reappeared in the Winter 97 Newsletter,
and will be repeated in the Spring 98 one. Some proposals have already been
received, even though the final deadlines are in March. I
The topic for the VN Society's 98 AATSEEL session has also been
confirmed. The newly elected Vice-President of the IVNS, Galya Diment, will
chair the panel,
entitled "Vladimir Nabokov at the End of the Century, His and Ours." All
proposals, inquiries concerning deadlines, etc. should be addressed to her.
Getting an early start meant that we did not undergo the
last-minute rush of some previous years--when sessions had to be hastily
suggested and approved at the December MLA meeting--just in time
(barely) for announcement in the Spring MLA Newsletter.
To maintain this healthy lead time, I want to ask members of the
Forum to be thinking about possible topics for the 1999 MLA. Galya will soon
be issuing a Call for Topics/Organizers for both the 1999 MLA and 1999
AATSEEL sessions--the deadlines for which will fall in late spring or early
summer--before people have left campus for parts unknown. According to
the bylaws of the Society, the Vice-President is in charge of
coordinating all the panels and sessions conducted under the Society's
aegis. The VP is also responsible for organizing one of the two MLA
Convention sessions held annually during his/her tenure.
My best wishes to all for the New Year,
Ellen Pifer