APRIL 20, 2007
9:15 Conference Opening (coffee and pastries)9:30- 11:00 SESSION 1. ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY IN RUSSIAN CULTURE
Matthew Doka
Biblical origins of Dostoevsky’s Air Symbolism in Crime and PunishmentKatharine McCormick
Three Silent Sages and One Blind Bishop: Tolstoy’s Religion in Three HermitsNatasha Petrukhin
Christianization of Rus' and Pagan Traditions: Is it all Just Bathhouses at Midnight?Christina Watts
Christ is Risen: Easter Liturgy as the Pinnacle and Locus of Artistic Expression in Medieval Rus'11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15- 12:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Marc Hoffman
Through Orange-Colored Goggles: Russian and American Images of One Another During the Orange Revolution12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-1:10 RUSSIAN ESSAY CONTEST AWARD CEREMONY
1:10-2:30 SESSION 2. NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE (TOLSTOEVSKY)
Andrea Biernat
The Effects of Svidrigailov’s Inner Monster in Dostoevsky’s Crime and PunishmentBing Hu
The Shawl motif in Crime and Punishment by DostoevskySharon Her
Problems of Death and Difference in Tolstoy’s Anna KareninaJulie Steinberg
Tolstoy and Truth: The Inadequacies of Language in Anna Karenina2:30-2:40 Coffee Break
2:40 – 3:30 SESSION 3. SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA
Amanda J. Dahler (Bryn Mawr College)
Analysis of the Competition for the Mass Fashion Market in Present-Day RussiaKim Hsu
Admiral Sergei Gorshkov's Publications on Soviet Naval Strategy: Soviet Context and American Response3:30- 4:00 Conference Closing and Refreshments