9:30. CONFERENCE OPPENING (coffee and pastries)9:45 – 10:30. KEYNOTE LECTURE
Pinar Ure (PhD candidate, Department of History)
Russian Archaeological Excavations in the Ottoman Empire Between 1894 and 191410:30- 12:00. SESSION 1. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS OF RUSSIAN CULTURE
Molly Reed
Furious and Fyodor: The Turbulent Ties Between Belinsky and DostoevskyVelika Nespor
Revealing Truth through MimesisMichael Soyfer
The Mustachioed Ghost: Mock Apotheosis in Gogol’s “Overcoat”Ekaterina Petrova
Skriabin and Ciurlionis: The Synthesis of Music and Visual Art12:00 – 1:00. LUNCH
1:00 – 2:30 SESSION 2. RUSSIAN CULTURE IN SOVIET WONDERLAND AND BEYONDLogan Bayroff
“Timur and His Gang,” A Vision of the Ideal Soviet ChildhoodRebecca Kaplan
Madness and Faith: How Reason Tried to Kill G-d in Soviet RussiaKseniya Demchenko
Becoming a Hero for the Next Generation in Russia: The Case of Erast FandorinJessica Ferro
Escape from a Publically Private World2:30 –2:45: CONCLUDING REMARKS