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.
Global Russian Culture, April 19 - 20, 2013
Your Language - My Ear: Russian and American Poetry at Close Quarters, April 22 - 23, 2011
The Thaw: Visual Culture and Beyond, April 9, 2010
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
