9:15 Conference Opening (coffee and pastries)

9:30- 11:00 SESSION 1. ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY IN RUSSIAN CULTURE

Matthew Doka
Biblical origins of Dostoevsky’s Air Symbolism in Crime and Punishment

Katharine McCormick
Three Silent Sages and One Blind Bishop: Tolstoy’s Religion in Three Hermits

Natasha Petrukhin
Christianization of Rus' and Pagan Traditions: Is it all Just Bathhouses at Midnight?

Christina Watts
Christ is Risen: Easter Liturgy as the Pinnacle and Locus of Artistic Expression in Medieval Rus'

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15- 12:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE

Marc Hoffman
Through Orange-Colored Goggles: Russian and American Images of One Another During the Orange Revolution

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break

1:00-1:10 RUSSIAN ESSAY CONTEST AWARD CEREMONY

1:10-2:30 SESSION 2. NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE (TOLSTOEVSKY)

Andrea Biernat
The Effects of Svidrigailov’s Inner Monster in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

Bing Hu
The Shawl motif in Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

Sharon Her
Problems of Death and Difference in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina

Julie Steinberg
Tolstoy and Truth: The Inadequacies of Language in Anna Karenina

2:30-2:40 Coffee Break

2:40 – 3:30 SESSION 3. SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA

Amanda J. Dahler (Bryn Mawr College)
Analysis of the Competition for the Mass Fashion Market in Present-Day Russia

Kim Hsu
Admiral Sergei Gorshkov's Publications on Soviet Naval Strategy: Soviet Context and American Response

3:30- 4:00 Conference Closing and Refreshments