Conference in L.A.

[Marcus Levitt]

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is pleased to
announce a conference  -- "Rethinking Russia and Modernity" --  to
be held October 1 and 2, 1999 at the Tyler Environmental Prize
Pavilion, Von Kleinsmid Center, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles.

Friday, October 1 (2-4 pm)
Laura Engelstein (Princeton University): "Old and New in the Old
Regime: A View from the Religious Fringe".

Richard Stites (Georgetown University): "Serfdom, Freedom, and
the Arts in Early 19th-Century Russia".

Saturday, October 2 (10 am - 12 pm)
I
rene Masing-Delic (The Ohio State University): "Blue-blooded
Disease and Red-blooded Health: Decadence and Heroism as a
Cultural and Class Issue"

Yuri Tsivian (University of Chicago):  "Russian Film History and the
Rhetorics of Modernity"

For directions to the campus & further information please contact
the Dept. of Slavic Languages & Litertures (213/740-2735) e-mail:
slavic at usc.edu