Pornography at USC

[Marcus C. Levitt]

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CONFERENCE ON RUSSIAN PORNOGRAPHY

University of Southern California, Saturday and Sunday, May 23-24, 1998

Since the end of the USSR and of the Soviet censorship, there has been
 an explosion of pornography in Russia, which has become an issue of
national concern.  At the same time, the new freedom to publish--and
discuss--previously forbidden materials has also given rise to the
opportunity to consider the phenomenon of pornography in a serious
way as a cultural and historical phenomenon, for scholars both in
Russia and the West.

The conference will present and take stock of recent work on Russian
 pornography, examining this phenomenon across disciplines (history,
literature, art history, folklore), visual, print, and oral media
(literature, photography, painting, books, periodicals, folklore,
lubki) and historical periods (folklore through the twentieth
century).

The preliminary list of participants includes:

John Alexander, University of Kansas
Andrei Arkhipov, Stanford University
Luc Beaudoin, University of Denver
Frances Bernstein, Johns Hopkins
Otto Boele, University of Groenigen
Eliot Borenstein,  New York University
Alexander Etkind, St. Petersburg
Dianne Farrell, Moorehead State University
Paul W. Goldschmidt, U. of Wisconsin, Platteville
Helena Goscilo, University  of Pittsburgh
Edward Kasinec, New York Public Library
Igor Kon, Moscow
Anna Krylova, Johns Hopkins University
Eve Levin, Ohio State University
Marcus Levitt, University of So. California
Amy Mandelker, City University of New York
Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley
Yelena Minyonok, IMLI, Moscow
Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley
Oleg Proskurin, Moscow
Vera Proskurina, Cornell University
Natalia Pushkareva, Moscow
Daniel Rancour-Laferierre, UC Riverside
Karen Ryan-Hayes, University of Virginia
Christine Tomei, Columbia University
Andrei Toporkov, IMLI, Moscow
Laura Wilhelm, Los Angeles

The Conference is Open to the Public

Affordable housing is available in USC dorms or in off-campus university
housing.  For housing application and further information, contact:

Prof. Marcus C. Levitt, Conference Coordinator
Department of Slavic Languages
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353
(213) 740-2740
e-mail: levitt at hermes.usc.edu

Sponored by: the International Research and Exchanges Board; the University
 of Southern California; and the Southern California Consortium for
Russian and Eurasian Studies.

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