Penn State Pushkin Conference

[Adrian J. Wanner]

The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at
Pennsylvania State University is pleased to announce an international
conference, "Pushkin Beyond Europe," on October 23-24, 1999.  The
conference is devoted to global aspects of Pushkin's legacy, such as his
reception in non-European countries, his African heritage, and his relation
to the colonialized minorities of the Russian Empire.  All events will take
place at the Atherton Hotel, 125 S. Atherton Street,  State College, PA
16801.  For more information, please contact Adrian Wanner at ajw3 at psu.edu.


PROGRAM

Saturday, October 23

9:00 a.m.    Welcoming Remarks by Gerhard Strasser, Head, Department of Germanic
and Slavic Languages, and Michael Naydan, Director, Program of Slavic and
East European Languages

9:15-9:45  First Keynote Speech.  Speaker: Roman Timenchik (Jerusalem)

10:00-12:00 Panel 1: Pushkin and the Caucasus
Chair: William Schmalstieg (Penn State)

Harsha Ram (University of California, Berkeley)
Pushkin's Caucasian Adventure: The Paradigm and Its Future

Adrian Wanner (Penn State)
"The Prisoner of the Caucasus" and its Epilogue: Pushkin's Endorsement of
Russian Imperialism?

Andreas Schönle (University of Michigan)
Letters of a Russian Jester: The Vexing "Journey to Arzrum" as a Rejoinder
to Karamzin

Katya Hokanson (University of Oregon)
Onegin's Journey: The Orient Revisited


12-1 pm Lunch


1:15-1:45   Second Keynote Speech.  Speaker: Georges Nivat (Geneva)


2:00-3:30       Panel 2: Pushkin's Global Reception
Chair: Christopher Lemelin (Bucknell University)

Angela Brintlinger (Ohio State University)
Pushkin on Display: Moscow and Paris, 1937

Carol Ueland (Drew University)
Pushkin and the Russian Emigre Community in China

Aminadav Dykman (Penn State)
Pushkin's Reception in Israel


3:30-5:00   Panel 3: Pushkin's Blackness
Chair: James Roney (Juniata College)

Michael Naydan (Penn State)
Marina Tsvetaeva on Pushkin's Blackness

Caryl Emerson (Princeton University)
Pushkin's Ethiopian Great-Grandfather: The Opera

Olga Peters Hasty (Princeton University)
Pushkin in the Harlem Renaissance


7:30 p.m. Dinner


Sunday, October 24


9:30-10 a.m. Third Keynote Speech.  Speaker: Vadim Skuratovsky (Kiev)


10:15-11:45   Panel 4: Pushkin in the Context of Russian and World Culture
Chair: Madhu Malik (Bucknell University)

Robert Bird (Dickinson College)
Pushkin and the Hermeneutics of Russian Culture

Linda Ivanits (Penn State)
Pushkin's "Folklore" and Dostoevsky: The Case of "The Landlady"

Svetlana Evdokimova (Brown University)
The Anatomy of the Modern Man in Pushkin's "Little Tragedies"



This conference is organized by the Department of Germanic and Slavic
Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature,
with the Support of the College of Liberal Arts, the Institute for the Arts
and Humanistic Studies, and the Office of International Programs.


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Adrian J. Wanner
Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Pennsylvania State University
315 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802

Tel. (814)  863-8964 (o)  234-1289 (h)
Fax  (814)  863-8882
http://www.la.psu.edu/slavic/wanner.htm