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Subject:	Nabokov Society sponsored panels at the 20th Century Literature Conference Feb 23-25 '06
Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:06:24 -0500
From:	Marianne Cotugno <cotugnm@muohio.edu>
To:	Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References:	<43C687AA.6040204@utk.edu>

The following is the basic program for panels organized by the Nabokov Society this year.  I will send more detailed summaries of these presentations later, but I wanted to make you aware of this conference in case you are interested in attending.  It's a wonderful, friendly environment, so if you can, please attend.

B-9      Trans* Actions in Nabokov (Panel organized by the Nabokov Society)

            Thursday, 1:15 - 2:45 p.m.     Room 209

            Chair: Marianne Cotugno, Miami University, Middletown

            • Michele Russo, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

               “The Intersection of Linguistic Codes as the Basis for the Cultural 'Explosion' in

               Vladimir Nabokov's Ada"

            • Patrick Keller, University of California, Irvine

“Visibility Problem: Invisibility, Depth, and Metafiction in Nabokov's Invitation to a

               Beheading and Ellison's Invisible Man"


G-4     The Otherworld in Nabokov's Fiction (Panel organized by the Nabokov Society)

            Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 p.m.          Room 121

            Chair: Marianne Cotugno, Miami University, Middletown

            • Alexander Moudrov, City University of New York

               “Nabokov's Invitation to Plato's Beheading"

            • Lyubov Bugaeva, Universitat Salzburg, Austria

               “Mortality and Immortality in Nabokov's Bend Sinister"

            • Sam Schuman, University of Minnesota, Morris

               “Rozhdestvo/Rozhestveno: A Nabokov Christmas"