Conference on Emigration and Exile from Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century

Fri Feb 11 17:44:12 UTC 2000

Dear Seelangers,

In two week's time the University of Toronto will host an
Interdisciplinary Conference on Emigration and Exile from Central and
Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century.  This event is organized by the
graduate students of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at
the University of Toronto and promises to be an exciting forum.  Following
is a programme of events.

PROGRAMME FOR CONFERENCE ON EMIGRATION AND EXILE FROM CENTRAL
 AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Association of Slavic Graduate Students
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
FEBRUARY 24-26, 2000.

February 24, 2000.
Music Room, Hart House
6:30 pm. Opening Address: Professor C.J. Barnes, Chair,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto

7:00 pm Round-Table Discussion: Emigration and Exile Across the
Disciplines
Moderator: Dr. Olga Bakich, University of Toronto
Participants:  John Glad, Wsevolod Isajiw, Paul Magocsi, Susan Solomon
8:00 pm Reception University College Union

February 25, 2000.
Victoria University, Room 215

9:00 am-10:30 am Mnemosyne in Exile
Chair: Professor Judith Kalb, University of South Carolina
Professor Andrew Kier Wise, Daemen College, Department of History and
Government
Gil Blas or Don Quixote: Waclaw Lednicki and the Quest for "Harmony and
Perfection"
Anna Nadgrodkiewicz, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of
Political Science
Memory and Forced Forgetting: The Poetry of  Dr. Zbigniew Kabata and Dr.
Jerzy Korey-Krzeczowski
Professor Judith Kalb, University of South Carolina, Department of
Germanic, Slavic and East Asian Languages and Literatures
Nina Berberova: Fictional Autobiography or Autobiographical Fiction?

10:45 am -12:15 pm  Imaginary Spaces, Alternative Geographies
Chair: Thomas Lahusen, Duke University
Natalia Shostak, University of Toronto, Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures
How Baba Uliana Wrote a Letter to Her Sister in Canada: Diaspora/Homeland
Ruminations in Rural Ukraine
Thomas Lahusen, Duke University
The Memory of Difference: Western Minorities in Manchukuo
Martin Beisswenger, Humboldt University, Department of History
Russian Eurasianists in Prague

12:15 pm -1:45 pm lunch break

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Composing in Emigration
Chair: Professor Sterling Beckwith, York University
Fuyuko Fukanaka, New York University
Gyorgy Ligeti and the "ultra modern": the Question of Identity
Michael Baumgartner, University of Basel
Stravinsky: And I Am a Double Emigre

3:30 pm -5:00 pm Degrees of Separation
Chair: Irene Masing-Delic, The Ohio State University
Alexander Panev, University of Toronto, Department of History
Search for Intellectual and National Identity: the Wanderings of the
Refugees from the Civil War in Greece through the Wastelands of the Soviet
Bloc, 1948-1990
Sean Martin, The Ohio State University
Homeless in Krakow: A Study of Three Polish Jewish Intellectuals and Their
Relationship to Poland and Polish Culture
Dr. Paul Robinson, Oxford University
The White Russian Army in Exile, 1920-1941

Victoria University, Alumni Hall
7:00 pm -8:30 pm Poetic and Scholarly Perspectives: Readings from Recent
Publications
Bogdan Czaykowski, University of British Columbia
In English Translation:  Wiatr s innej strony (1990), Okanaganskie sady
(1998)
Professor John Glad, University of Maryland
Russia Abroad: Writers, History, Politics (1999).

February 26, 2000.
Victoria University, Room 101

9:00 am -10:30 am The Macaronic Universe
Chair: Professor Veronika Ambros, University of Toronto
Maria Rewakowicz, University of Toronto, Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
>From Spain With Love, or Is There a "Spanish School" in Ukrainian
Literature?
Dr. Galina Rylkova, University of Toronto/The Ohio State University
>From Acropolys to Necropolis: Laying to Rest the Body of the Silver Age
Culture
Professor Allan Reid, University of New Brunswick, Department of Culture
and Language Studies
Tut i tam: Aksyonov's Polylingual Narrative

10:45 am - 12:15 am Split Identities
Chair: Professor Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto
Professor Irene Masing-Delic, The Ohio State University, Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Divided Cultural Loyalties in Vladimir Nabokov's "Glory"
George Gasyna, University of Toronto, Centre for Comparative Literatures
A Divided Mind: The Dual Exile of Czeslaw Milosz
Professor Regina Grol, SUNY-Empire State College
Eroticism and Exile: Anna Frajlich's Poetry

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm lunch break

1:45 pm - 3:15  pm Emigre Literary Scholars and Intellectuals
Chairs: Megan Swift, Paul Haddock, University of Toronto
Professor Lubomir Dolezel, University of Toronto, Centre for Comparative
Literature
The Circle is Broken: Prague Structuralists in Emigration
Judit Szapor, York University, Department of History
The Odyssey of the Polanyis: to the History of the Intellectual Migration
from Central Europe to North America, 1919-1944
Professor Peter Nesselroth, University of Toronto, Centre for Comparative
Literature
Bulgarian Geniuses in Paris: Julia Kristeva and Tzvetan Todorov

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Creating Culture in Emigration
Chair: Dr. Olga Bakich, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Jessie Labov, New York University, Department of Comparative Literature
Standard Bearers or Lost Romantics?  Giedroyc, Grydzewski and the Literary
Journal in Emigration
Professor Emeritus Gleb Zekulin, University of Toronto, Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Education in Emigration: The Russian Experience in Czechoslovakia
1920-1938
Professor Zahar Davydov, University of Toronto, Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures
Izrail'skie zhurnaly na russkom iazyke 1990-1999.
Lev Abramovich Mnukhin, Rukovoditel' rossiiskoi gruppoi po izucheniu
russkoi emigratsii.
Russkaia periodicheskaia pechat' Zapadnoi Evropy 1920-1950.

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