Slavic Theory conference

[Kate Holland]

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Lina Steiner and Ilya Kliger.  Please contact them if you are interested
(ilya.kliger at yale.edu).
Kate Holland


Slavic Theory Today: Between History and System
Yale University

March 1-2, 2002

The purpose of the two-day symposium at Yale is to reexamine the legacy of a
number of Slavic literary theorists and critics whose ideas can contribute to
a contemporary debate about the relation between theory and history in
humanistic studies. The participants: Vladimir Alexandrov, Svetlana Boym,
Jonathan Culler, Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Epstein, Victor Erlich, Paolo Fabbri,
Boris Gasparov, Michael Holquist, Mikhail Iampolski, Vadim Liapunov,
John Mackay, Gary Saul Morson, Irina Paperno, Gerald Prince, Brian Poole,
Harsha Ram, Peter Steiner, David Shepherd, Galin Tihanov, Michael Wachtel,
Alexander Zholkovsky. All events are free and open to the public.
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT, 06520.
T. (203)432-8267; e-mail: ilya.kliger at yale.edu.

Conference Program

Friday, March 1

10am-- noon Panel One, "Translating Discourses: Literature, Historiography, Science"Peter Steiner, "Linguistic Turn in Russian historiography: Gustav Shpet's 'History as a Subject-matter of Logic"

Harsha Ram, "Drawing the Line: Discipline Boundaries and Geographical Peripheries in Eurasian theory and literary practice."

Paolo Fabbri, "Translating Text Forces: Literature and Science."

Discussant: Vladimir Alexandrov

1:15pm- 3:15pm Panel Two, "The Legacy of Slavic Theory: Poetics and Narratology"

Jonathan Culler, "The Form of Formalism."

Gerald Prince, "Formalism and Narratology"

+Michael Wachtel, "How to Read a Poem: Jakobson, Lotman, Gasparov."

Discussant: Victor Erlich

4pm- 6pm Panel Three, "Bakhtin: Pro and Contra"

Caryl Emerson, " Bakhtin after the Boom: some contested moments and where they might lead."

Gary Saul Morson "Narrativeness"

David Shepherd, "Bakhtin in/and Crisis"

Brain Poole, "Bakhtin and the Goal of Cultural Studies"

Discussant: Michael Holquist

Saturday, March 2

10am- 12pm Panel Four "Slavic Theory in Europe: Influence, Relation, Mediation"

Svetlana Boym, "From Art of Estrangement to Poetics of Unfreedom: Schklovsky, Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt"

Galin Tikhanov, "Why Did Modern Literary Theory Originate in Central and Eastern Europe?"

Boris Gasparov, "Semiotic Order: Yurii Lotman's Vision of Culture and French semiotic Revolution."

Vadim Liapunov, (the title is forthcoming)

Discussant: John Mackay



1pm- 3pm Panel Five "Poetry, Theory, Form"

Alexander Zholkovsky, "Poetry of Grammar, Pragmatics of Poetry."

Mikhail Iampolski, "Poetics as Politics: Pumpiansky and Others".

Mikhail Epstein, "From Post- to Proto-: On the New Trends in the humanities."

Discussant: Irina Paperno

3:30pm- 5:30pm Roundtable "The Future of the Humanities in the Context of Globalization."

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