Conference on Russian Women Writers

[Glen Worthey]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce a conference to be held February 23-24,=20
1996, at the University of California, Berkeley, entitled=20
"Double Lives: Women Writing in the Russian Tradition."  The
conference is open to all.

The conference program follows; a fuller description and
program can be found online at the following site:

=09http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Slavic/prog-3.html

If you would like to receive a poster for this event, or would=20
like any other information about it, please contact the conference=20
organizers: Jennifer Wilder, jwilder at uclink.berkeley.edu
=09or  Glen Worthey, gworthey at garnet.berkeley.edu

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=09Glen Worthey
=09Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
=09University of California at Berkeley
=09gworthey at garnet.berkeley.edu
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=09Double Lives:  Women Writing in the Russian Tradition
=09=09University of California, Berkeley
=09=09=09February 23-24, 1996


=09Friday, February 23
=097-9 p.m.
=09Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Opening event: A literary evening with Tatyana Tolstaya=20
=09Reading and discussion: Tatyana Tolstaya (Moscow,=20
=09=09Russia and Skidmore College)
=09Response: Simon Karlinsky (UCB)

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=09Saturday, February 24=20
=099 a.m.-5 p.m.
=09Morrison Library (101 Doe Library)

Panel 1:  Biography as Destiny=20
=09Jehanne Gheith (Duke): "Do pseudonyms have biographies? =20
=09=09Russian women writers of the mid-19th century,=20
=09=09or the case of Evgeniia Tur and V. Krestovskii"
=09Jennifer Wilder (UCB):  "Karolina Pavlova and the=20
=09=09taint of biography"
=09Beth Holmgren (University of North Carolina):=20
=09=09"Housewives in uniform:  Biography and biology=20
=09=09in post-Stalin literature"=20
=09Discussant: Olga Matich (UCB)

Coffee Break

Panel 2:  The Illegitimate Muse
=09Liza Knapp (UCB): "The 'Podruga' cycle as an Evist manifesto"
=09Ann Marsh-Flores (UCB): "I blesk, i shum i govor balov:=20
=09=09Countess Evdokiia Rostopchina and the creation of a=20
=09=09female poetic identity"
=09Jessica Sharzer: (UCB) "Marina Tsvetaeva's _Popytka komnaty_: =20
=09=09Leveling _A Room of One=D5s Own_"
=09Glen Worthey (UCB): "Chukovskii vs. Charskaia"
=09Discussant: Anne Nesbet (UCB)

Lunch Break

Panel 3:  Monstrous Creations
=09Stephanie Sandler (Amherst): "Scared into selfhood: The=20
=09=09lyric poetry of Elena Shvarts and Inna Lisnianskaia"
=09Helena Goscilo (University of Pittsburgh): "Dismemberment as=20
=09=09(dis)information in Petrushevskaia"
=09Anne Hruska (UCB): "Zinaida Gippius and the gender of evil,=20
=09=09or, Why anacondas are always female"
=09Jessica Brandt (UCB): "Horrific intervention: The supernatural=20
=09=09in Petrushevskaia's 'Pesni vostochnykh slavian'"
=09Lilya Kaganovsky (UCB): "Fatherless Children"
=09Discussant: Eric Naiman (UCB)


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Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, =20
The Center for Slavic and East European Studies, The Townsend=20
Center for the Humanities, Graduate Division, The Beatrice M. Bain=20
Research Group for Gender-Related Studies, and The Library,=20
University of California at Berkeley