11:00-11:20 Conference Opening, Coffee and Pastries (Kade Center)

11:20-11:50 Keynote Lecture (Kade Center, room 329A)
Julie-Francoise Kruidenier
“The Function of Narrative in Underground Soviet Songs: How Klim Petrovich Became Famous”

12:00-1:30 Session I
Tolstoy’s Aesthetics (room 330A)
“Forgery of Style in Tolstoy’s Forged Coupon” (Julia Rubalevskaya)
“A Prisoner in the Caucasus: Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Good Art’” (Zoya Bozhko)
“A moral lesson in Anna Karenina: Tolstoy’s Beliefs on Identity Construction” (Ben Weiner)
Are the Peasant Children to Learn from Us as Tolstoy’s “Bible” of Art: Analyzing Tolstoy According to The Great Code” (Rachel Balik)

Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin and Beyond (room 329A)
“The Theme of Literary Self-Construction in Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin” (Daniel Corren)
“Pushkin’s Romantic Expression in Eugene Onegin: An Investigation of Love between Eugene and Tatyana” (Rebecca Hood)
“Deathbed Love: the Final Realization of Love after the Possibility of that Love Has Passed in Eugene Onegin and Madame Bovary” (Mary Gilroy Droesch)

Society, Economics, Politics in Eastern Europe (room 325A)
“The Ukrainian Question as Political Capital in the Struggle for Galicia and Volhynia, 1939-1956” (Markian Dobczansky)
“The Peculiarities of Russian Democracy” (Roman Kuznetsov)
“Centre and Periphery: Moscow and the Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union” (Clare Russell)
“The Post-Communist Revolution: Peace, Land, Bread… and GDP Growth?” (Irene Ayzenberg)

1:30-2:15 Lunch (Kade Center)

2:15-3:45 Session II
Representation of History and the Present in Film and Art (room 329A)
“History through Propaganda in Kalatozov's Film Sol Svanetii” (Marina Begun)
“Milos Forman’s Loves of a Blonde – Dreaming in the Face of Socialism” (Elena Poiata)
“In Search of the Blessed One: Vasily Perov and the Russian Populist Movement” (Craig Meister)

Love and Seduction in Fiction (room 325A)
“For the Love of God: Dichotomy versus Continuum of Religion and Romance in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Madame Bovary” (Sharon Cantor)
“The Double Standard in Dangerous Liaisons and Madame Bovary” (Dorit Price-Levine)
“Excess and Consequence” (Jon Levin)
“Flirting with Danger: The Loss of the Enlightenment Dream in Laclos’ Les Liaisons Dangeruese” (Yuko Torihara)
“Love as Pretext: Seduction Rules and Techniques in Dangerous Liaisons” (Lauren Fernandez)

Music, Poetics, and … Madness (room 330A)
“Opera in the Novel: Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary” (Shannon Meyerhoff)
“Music of the Stone: The Importance of Music in O. Mandelstam’s Early Poetry” (Alexander Pantelyat)
“Doppelganger and Interpretations of Madness” (Faatima Qureshi)

3:45-4:15 Conference Closing and Refreshments / The Slavic Department Anthem