FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

[Tony Naldrett]

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

>The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at
>the Ohio State University will hold a conference on "Negotiating Cultural
>Upheaval: Icons, Myths and Other Institutions of Cultural Memory in
Modern Russia (1900-2000)." The conference will take place in Columbus,
Ohio, April 14-15, 2000.
>
>20th-century Russia has seen more than its share of social and cultural
>upheaval resulting from wars, revolutions, the collapse of some
governments and the imposition of others--events that extended from 1905
to the more recent disintegration of the Soviet Union and Russia's
re-integration into the global economy. These social and political changes
have inevitably affected the course of cultural evolution, producing
enormous gulfs between new and old traditions and isolating thousands of
people from their traditional cultural environments. Despite their
magnitude, these gulfs are not unbridgeable: in fact, various types of
"bridges" have been and are being constructed across them. The objective
of this interdisciplinary conference is to examine these bridges, their
builders, and the ideas upon which they are founded.
>
>Interested scholars are asked to submit a one-page abstract and a short
>c.v. by November 15, 1999. Article-length versions of the conference
papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of KRITIKA:
>Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. For more information and
>e-mail submissions please contact Dr. Bill Wolf (wolf.5@ osu.edu; tel:
>(614) 292-8770). The organizers: Dr. Michael David-Fox, Dr. Sara
Dickinson, Dr. George Kalbouss, Dr. Irene Masing-Delic, Dr. Galina Rylkova
and Dr. Bill Wolf.