The Slavic Department Spring Research Symposium

Each spring the Slavic Department organizes a one-day symposium devoted to a discrete, often interdisciplinary topic of research. Past topics have included: “Euterpe in Furs: Russian Musical culture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”; “Dostoevsky Dismembered”; “Samizdat and Underground Culture in the Soviet Bloc Countries”; and “Slavic Historical Mythologies.” Each symposium features original article-length (20-30pp.) papers that are pre-circulated electronically to conference participants and audience members. Participants present fifteen-minute summaries of their papers, making possible a compact event with time for productive discussion. See links below for current and past symposia.

Uses of the Past, April 25, 2008

Slavic Historical Mythologies, April 27, 2007

Samizdat and Underground Culture in the Soviet Bloc Countries, April 6 -7, 2006

Dostoevsky Dismembered: Decentering a Great Writer, April 15, 2005

Euterpe in Furs: Russian Musical Culture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, March 4 - 5, 2004