SLAVIC BAZAAR ~ Славянский базар
ARCH, 3601 Locust Walk, Fireside Lounge, University of Pennsylvania
Schedule
10:15 Conference Opening, Coffee & Tea10:30–11:50 Russia vis-à-vis Itself, East, and West
Tim Green, "Russia and Her Orient: Orientalist Themes in the Work of Pushkin and Tolstoy"
Hanna Kereszturi, "Demonic Representations of the West by Gogol and Dostoevsky"
Phoebe Goldenberg, "Examining Morality and Representations of Occident and Orient in Tolstoy's Hadji Murat"
Laura Christians, "Unity in Faith: A Discussion of Dostoevsky's and Leskov's Views on What Distinguishes Russia as Russian"
12:00–12:45 Keynote Lecture
Maya Vinokour, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: Fighting Words on the State of US Slavic Studies"
The fate of Slavic Studies in the United States has been uncertain since the Soviet Union fell over 20 years ago, and grows ever more uncertain with each passing year. Is Slavic Studies obsolete as a discipline? Have the powers that be confused their priorities? Or do we, Slavists, simply have an image problem? Expect no easy answers, but plenty of food for thought.
12:45 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30–2:45 19th-C. Lit: The Subconscious, the Saintly, and the Damned
Alex Casella, "The One-Sided Correspondence: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Diseased Mind in 19th Century Literature"
Gabriel Ferrante, "Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Christian Repentance"
Steven Emanuel, "Tolstoy's Twist to Hagiography in Father Sergy"
3:00–4:20. 20th-C. Lit: The Absurd, the Bizarre, and the Irrational
Otto Kienitz, "OBERIU: Kharms, Lipavsky, and the Fear of the Great Unknown"
Hannah Judd, "The Firebird and Petersburg: the Unlikely Contrasts between Bely and Stravinsky"
Alec Ren, "Vaslav Nijinsky's Dance with Madness: A Russian Portrait"
Mariantonia Rojas, "How to Fool Ourselves: The Application of the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance to Nabokov's Despair and Zamyatin's We"
4:30–5:15 Politics and Society
Katherine Vinogradoff, "Absent for the October Revolution: The Journals of a Russian Intellectual in the United States, 1918-1930s"
Shelli Gimelstein, "Freedom of Expression in Central and Eastern Europe: A Comparative Case Study"
