Borderlines Symposium 4/6-8/2002 Syracuse University

Pamela Paul papaul at SYR.EDU
Thu Mar 21 20:38:16 UTC 2002 

Good Afternoon,

The Judaic Studies Program at Syracuse University will be hosting the
"Borderlines: Judaic Literature and Culture in Eastern Europe" Symposium,
April 6-8, 2002.   The following is information and a schedule on the
Conference.

Please feel free to email(papaul at syr.edu) or call (315-443-5671) me if you
have any questions.

Sincerely,

Pamela Paul


BORDERLINES:   JUDAIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN EASTERN EUROPE

Syracuse University, 6-8 April 2002

Eastern Europe has a long history of metamorphosis by annexation and
Balkanization.  As European boundaries have been
briskly redrawn since 1989, literatures and cultures of this region have
again to adapt to the new reality.  Moreover, obstacles
to the literary and historical study of Eastern Europe arisen from its
plethora of languages and the compartmentalization of
scholars.  During this symposium, by focusing on transnational Judaic
literature in an unusual group of experts in Slavic Studies
and Judaic Studies will examine ways in which Eastern Europeans have
reinvented themselves during the past two centuries.

National, ethnic, and linguistic borders have evidently separated the
populations of Eastern Europe.  On several other levels,
however, the turmoil has been expressed between rich and poor, high and low
culture, Christian and Jewish practices as well
as between religious and secular or traditional and modern communities.
Scholars of history, literature, literary theory, and
religion will meet at Syracuse University to analyze these shifting
borderlines.

The Borderlines conference is funded by the Ray Smith Symposium, the Judaic
Studies Program, and the B. G. Rudolph Chair
in Judaic Studies at Syracuse University.

Conference Organizer:  Ken Frieden, B. G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic
Studies, Syracuse University, kfrieden at syr.edu,
315-443-1894.

Conference Assistant:  Pamela Paul, Secretary to the Judaic Studies Program,
Syracuse University, papaul at syr.edu,
315-443-5671.

Coorganizers:  Amy Mandelker, Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature,
CUNY Graduate Center; and Harriet Murav,
Russian and Comparative Literature, University of California at Davis.

Participants from Syracuse University, the Central New York community, and
scholars from other universities are welcome to
attend all sessions.

Presentations will be grouped into two formats.  Half a dozen panel sessions
on Sunday and Monday, designed to facilitate
conversation, will center on previously circulated articles.  These papers
should be available for distribution, enabling
participants to read them prior to the symposium.  Approximately 40 minutes
will be allotted to the presentation and discussion
of each paper.  The keynote lecture by Steven Zipperstein––a large, plenary
session intended for a broad audience of
university faculty, students, and community members––will be held on Sunday
evening in conjunction with the annual B. G.
Rudolph Lecture in Judaic Studies.

The keynote lecture and all panel discussions will be held in the Kilian
Room, 500 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University.

  SCHEDULE

RAY SMITH SYMPOSIUM AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, 6-8 APRIL 2002

BORDERLINES:  JUDAIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN EASTERN EUROPE


Saturday, 6 April

The Dybbuk

7:30 p.m. – Conversation with Barbara Damashek, director of The Dybbuk, at
the Storch Theatre, Syracuse Stage.

8:30 p.m. – Syracuse Stage Performance of S. Ansky’s play, The Dybbuk


Sunday, 7 April

History and Cultural Contexts

9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Chair:  Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University)

· Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Strangers to
Others and Half-Strangers to Ourselves”: Jews and Russians in the Russian
Religious Renaissance
· Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania), “Pale Lines: Russians,
Jews, and the Boundaries of Historical Knowledge, 1860-1930”
· Rebecca Stanton (Columbia), “Identity Crisis: The Literary Culture of
Odessa in the Early Twentieth Century”

Literary Theory

11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Chair:  Erika Haber (Syracuse University)

· Kristi Groberg (Hjemkomst Center), “Jewish Trilingualism in
Nineteenth-Century Russia”
· Amy Mandelker (CUNY), “The Ethics of Estrangement in Culture and
Explosion:  Iurii Lotman and Jewish Philosophy”


Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian Literature

2:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Chair:  Harriet Murav (University of California, Davis)

· Hamutal Bar-Yosef (Ben Gurion University), “Apocalypticism in Modern
Hebrew and Yiddish Literature: The Russian
Context”
· Robert Rothstein (University of Massachusetts), “As the Worm Turns:
Tolstoy, Sienkiewicz and the Purim-shpil”
· Gabriella Safran (Stanford University), “God on Trial: How Ansky Wrote and
Rewrote the Jewish Folktale”
· Gennady Estraikh (SOAS, London), “Yiddish Proletarian Literature in the
Soviet Union”


Keynote Lecture

7:30 p.m.  B.G. Rudolph Lecture in Judaic Studies

· Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University), “History, Literature, and the
Russian Jewish Past”

8:45 p.m. – Reception for Steven Zipperstein, BORDERLINES participants, and
the Syracuse community

9:45 p.m. – Gabriella Safran, Robert Moss, et al. in a post-play panel
discussion of The Dybbuk at Syracuse Stage


Monday, 8 April

Polish and Russian Literature

8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Chair:  Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (University of Wisconsin, Madison),

· Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University), “Caught in Half-Sentence:
Polish-Jewish Writing before World War I and in Interwar
Poland”
· Alice Nakhimovsky (Colgate University), “Mikhail Zhvanetsky: The Last
Jewish Russian Joker”
· Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College), “Exile and the Unburdening of Guilt: A
Tribute to David Aizman”

Yiddish and Russian Literature

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Chair:  Ken Frieden (Syracuse University)


· Vassili Schedrin (Brandeis University), “Memoranda Literature on the
Jewish Question in Nineteenth-Century Russia and Its
Authors”
· Jeremy Dauber and Cathy Popkin (Columbia University), “How To Do Things
With Literature: Constructing and Construing
Russian and Yiddish Prose Fiction”
· Harriet Murav (University of California, Davis), “Post-Soviet Jewish
Writing:  History, Memory, Language”


Art and Architecture

3:00 p.m. – 4:30p.m.
Chair:  Amy Mandelker (CUNY)

· Samuel Gruber (Syracuse University), “’Seeing Leads to Remembering’: The
Ethnographic and Architectural Expeditions of
S. Anski (1912-15) and Szymon Zajczyk (1929-39) and Their Legacy Today”
· Murray Zimiles (SUNY Purchase), “The Synagogue and the Carousel”



The Keynote Lecture and all panel discussions will be held in the Kilian
Room
500 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University


For further information, including details about accommodations and parking,
please contact Pamela Paul at 315-443-5671 or papaul at syr.edu

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