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 1914

10:30- 12:00. SESSION 1. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS OF RUSSIAN CULTURE

Molly Reed
Furious and Fyodor: The Turbulent Ties Between Belinsky and Dostoevsky

Velika Nespor
Revealing Truth through Mimesis

Michael Soyfer
The Mustachioed Ghost: Mock Apotheosis in Gogol’s “Overcoat”

Ekaterina Petrova
Skriabin and Ciurlionis: The Synthesis of Music and Visual Art

12:00 – 1:00. LUNCH

1:00 – 2:30 SESSION 2. RUSSIAN CULTURE IN SOVIET WONDERLAND AND BEYOND

Logan Bayroff
“Timur and His Gang,” A Vision of the Ideal Soviet Childhood

Rebecca Kaplan
Madness and Faith: How Reason Tried to Kill G-d in Soviet Russia

Kseniya Demchenko
Becoming a Hero for the Next Generation in Russia: The Case of Erast Fandorin

Jessica Ferro
Escape from a Publically Private World

2:30 –2:45: CONCLUDING REMARKS