Call for Papers -- Conference on Madness

[Angela Brintlinger]

Announcing a conference at Ohio State University, April 5-6, 2003:

"Those Crazy Russians": Madness in Russian Culture, History and Society

We invite proposals for a conference on the topic of madness in Russia,
to be held April 5-6, 2003 at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Topics include but are not limited to: Madness and Society, Madness and
Literature, Madness in Political Discourse, Madness in History, The History
of Psychiatry in Russia, The Asylum in Russia, Madness and Gender, The
Representation of Madness in the Fine Arts and Cinema. The working
languages of the conference are English and Russian.

Send a title and 150-word abstract, along with a 2-page c.v., to Prof.
Angela Brintlinger,
232 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Inquiries to
brintlinger.3 at osu.edu or to Prof. Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pittsburgh,
ivinitsk at pisem.net.

Deadline for proposals is January 15, 2003. The conference is to be
sponsored by the Ohio State Center for Slavic and East European Studies and
the OSU Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures.

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