10:00 – 10:15 Welcome Address, Coffee and Refreshments

10:15 – 11:30 Session 1 Russian Literature

Thomas Haymore
“Dostoevsky and Rational Choice”

Miriam Nogradi
“Becoming a Native of Berlin”

Tara Mendola
“A Grey Star: Time and its Relation to Morality in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Ada”

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:30 Keynote Lecture

Christy MacMillan, “St. Petersburg Myth as Chronotope”

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch (Mediterranean / Ukrainian Treats)

1:30 – 2:45 Session 2 Russia and the West

Andrew Fink
“Trade, Law, Liberty, and Novgorod. The Russian Venice”

Spencer Willig
“Notes of a Russian Nationalist: A Study of the Russian and the Foreign in Karamzin’s Travelogue”

Rayna Lopyan
“Russia’s Eighteenth-Century Conflict: Modernization, Unification, or Both?”

2:45 – 3:00 Coffee Break

3:00 – 4:30 Session 3 Russian and Ukrainian Societies

Markian Dobczansky
“War and Identity: Stalin, Khmelnytsky and Russo-Ukrainian Relations”

Michael Hallam
“Are Russians Bowling Alone? Post-Soviet Russian Civil Society”

Dan Corren
“The Khram and the Hymn: State Symbols in Post-Soviet Russia”

4:30 – 5:00 Closing Party