program for 1996 AATSEEL-WI Conf.

[Benjamin Rifkin]

PROGRAM FOR THE 1996 AATSEEL-WISCONSIN CONFERENCE

Friday, April 26, 1996

A Public Lecture

"Teaching the Whole Class: Text as Input and Output"

by Olga Kagan
University of California, Los Angeles

4:00 pm
7191 Helen C. White Hall

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Saturday, April 27, 1995
8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Room 316, Wisconsin Center,
702 Langdon St., Madison, Wisconsin


8:30 - 8:45 am          Coffee and Tea


8:45 - 10:15 am         20th Century Slavic Literatures and/or Cinema

Chair:                    Donald Loewen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:              Leonid Livak, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Megan Dixon (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Foucault's Panopticon and
the Soviet Communal Apartment"

Joanna Kot (Northern Illinois University), "Distance Manipulation:  In
Search of a New Type of Russian Modernist Drama"

Paul Klanderud (Macalaster College), "Olesha's Envy, Things, and the
Struggle between Form and Function."

Bohdan Nebesio (University of Alberta), "Toward Counterrevolutionary
Aesthetics of Alexander Dovzhenko's Revolutionary Films"

Elizabeth Lee Roby (Indiana University), "The Aesthetic Ideal Profaned:
The Transformation of the Divine Androgyne into Geisha"



10:30 - 11:45 am        19th and Pre-19th Century Slavic Literatures

Chair:                    Stephany Gould, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:              Stuart Goldberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison


Alexander Propp (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Battle for Pushkin:
Image of Poet in Lermontov's and Tiutchev's Necrologies"

Steve Scherer (Central Michigan University), "Structure, Symbol and Style
in Hryhorij Skovoroda's Potop Zmiin"

Mikhail Gurevich (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "'Poetics of
Manuscript' in Frame-by-Frame Reading"

Elena Monastireva (Indiana University), "Rome and Gogol's Concept of an
Ideal Place"


11:45 am  - 1:00 pm     Lunch Break

1:00 - 1:15 pm          Coffee and Tea

1:15 - 2:15 pm  Issues in the Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and
Literatures:  Working With, Around and Against Textbooks

Chair:                  Janneke M. van de Stadt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:           Alexandra Walter, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Steven P. Hill (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Elementary
Students and Elementary Textbooks, Then and Now"

Nathan Longan (Oakland University, MI), "Staging Russian Stage 2"

Alice Speh (West Chester University, PA) "Adapting Listening Comprehension
Passages from Golosa for Classroom Use"


2:30 - 4:00               Special Topics
                                Slavic Modernism(s):  Literature, Film and
Theory

Chair:                    William Fischer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:              Victoria Devereux, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Christine Borowec (Bryn Mawr College), "The Voices of Symbolist Amor:
Shifts of Gender in Lyric Cycles by Bal'mont and Brjusov"

Stephany Gould (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Modernist Structure and
the Transposition of 'Nos'"

Lynne Ikach (Cornell College), "Contradiction and Confusion in Viktor
Shklovsky's  "Tret'ja fabrika"

Donald Loewen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Freeing the Voice:
Biographical Projection and Mandel'stam's Declaration of Independence"

Janneke M. van de Stadt (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "I Fall to
Pieces:  Pan Apolek and the Orphic Spirit"


For information about the conference, contact Ben Rifkin by e-mail or
Halina Filipowicz (608/262-4329) by telephone.



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Benjamin Rifkin
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI  53706
(608) 262-1623; fax (608) 265-2814
e-mail:  brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu