9:15. CONFERENCE OPPENING (coffee and pastries)

9:30 – 10:15. KEYNOTE LECTURE

Sam Hirst (Department of History)
For Homeland: Russian, Soviet, and Other. Soviet Soldiers and Socialist Ideology in the Second World War

10:15- 11:45. SESSION 1. IDEOLOGICAL BATTLES

Julie Steinberg
Taming the Wolf: Consequences of the Chechen war for Russian politics

Ross Weber
Ivan's Childhood as a Representation of the State of the West

Natasha Petrukhin
The Role of Women in the Modern Russian Family

11:45 – 12:45. LUNCH

12:45 – 2:45 SESSION 2. RUSSIAN CLASSICS IN CONTEXT

Katharine McCormick
A Perplexed Poprishchin and his Jumbled Genres: An Exploration of the Confusion of Tragedy and Comedy in Gogol’s “Diary of a Madman”

Hannah Nicholas
Two Queens of Spades

Brian Niblo
Pyrrhonic Cynicism and the Role of Mimetic Desire in Lermontov's Hero of Our Time

Evan Swain
The Censorship of Chapter X of Notes from Underground, and Its Impact on the Polemic Aspect of Part I

2:45 –3:00: CONCLUDING REMARKS