Northeastern Slavic conference program

[Margo Ballou]

Dear members of SEELANGS,

The Department of Slavic Languages at Brown University would like to
invite you to the annual conference of the Northeastern Slavic
Graduate Student Association.  The conference will take place this
coming Saturday, March 9, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode
Island.  A preliminary program and contact information are given
below.
Thank you.

Sincerely yours,
Margo Ballou


THE NORTHEASTERN SLAVIC
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION

Preliminary Program

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Crystal Room
9:00- 9:45      Breakfast
9:45-11:00      The Era of Totalitarianism
        "Georges Bataille and Andrei Platonov:  Essays on the Bodily Functions"
        Kevin-Konstantin Starikov, Yale University
        "The Totalitarian Language of Fedelius and Vaclav Havel"
        Veronika Tucker, City University of New York
        "Orwell, Totalitarianism, and the Russian Connection"
        Steven Seegel, Brown University, Department of History
11:00-12:15     Contemporary Literature
        "Russia's Muslim Other"
        Gerald McCausland, University of Pittsburgh
        "New Unconditionality, Poetics of Insult, Economy of Attention:
        On Some General Trends in Contemporary Russian Cultural Field"
        Mikhail Gronas, Trinity College
        "Public Confessions:  Recent Autobiographies of Russian Celebrities"
        Olga Partan, Brown University

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Marston Hall

12:15- 2:00     Lunch and art exhibit in Marston Hall B-1

Saturday, March 9, 2002
Brown University
Providence, RI

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Crystal Room
2:00- 3:00      Silver Age
        "Remizov's Illustrated Albums as a Modernist Revision
        of Medieval Manuscripts"
        Julia Friedman, Brown University, Department of Art History

3:00- 4:15      Romanticism/Early 19th Century Literature
        "Faith or Folly:  Explicating the Vocalic Pattern of
        Tiutchev's 'Slezy liudskie, o slezy liudskie"
        Jonathan Brooks Platt, Columbia University
        "The Semiotics of Gogol's Dead Souls"
        Kirsten Lodge Borovik, Columbia University
        "The Prince of Knaves, or Rascality in 'Ruslan and Liudmila'"
        Joe Peschio, University of Michigan

5:00            Keynote Presentation
        "Dostoevsky as a Professional Writer"
        Professor William Mills Todd III,
        Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature and
        Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

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Note:  Each presentation is scheduled for 15 minutes followed by 30
minutes for the discussant's remarks and general discussion.  A 15
minute break after each panel is included in the times listed above.

For more information or directions, please contact the Brown
University Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at (401)
863-2689

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