Saturday, March 19, 2005
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Penn Humanities Forum
SCHEDULE
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome Address, Coffee and Refreshments10:15 – 11:30 Session 1 Russian Literature
Thomas Haymore
“Dostoevsky and Rational Choice”Miriam Nogradi
“Becoming a Native of Berlin”Tara Mendola
“A Grey Star: Time and its Relation to Morality in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Ada”11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:30 Keynote LectureChristy MacMillan, “St. Petersburg Myth as Chronotope”
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch (Mediterranean / Ukrainian Treats)
1:30 – 2:45 Session 2 Russia and the West
Andrew Fink
“Trade, Law, Liberty, and Novgorod. The Russian Venice”Spencer Willig
“Notes of a Russian Nationalist: A Study of the Russian and the Foreign in Karamzin’s Travelogue”Rayna Lopyan
“Russia’s Eighteenth-Century Conflict: Modernization, Unification, or Both?”2:45 – 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:30 Session 3 Russian and Ukrainian Societies
Markian Dobczansky
“War and Identity: Stalin, Khmelnytsky and Russo-Ukrainian Relations”Michael Hallam
“Are Russians Bowling Alone? Post-Soviet Russian Civil Society”Dan Corren
“The Khram and the Hymn: State Symbols in Post-Soviet Russia”4:30 – 5:00 Closing Party