international conference on V. Rozanov at Illinois, June 19-23

[Lynda Park]

For more information and complete conference program, check:
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/rozanov.htm

The Russian and East European Center at the University of Illinois presents

International Conference on
"Reading the Rozanov Corpus in the Twenty-first Century:  Bodies, Texts,
and the Russian Body Politic"
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, June 19 - Monday, June 23

[This conference is the INAUGURAL RALPH AND RUTH FISHER FORUM, held as part
of the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe
<http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/srl.htm>
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
* The conference will be conducted in English and Russian.

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1:00-4:15pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080), Foreign Languages
Building
Session: Rozanov's Performances
Chair and discussant:  Richard Tempest, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
"Liberating Rozanov from the Philosopher of Freedom: A Deconstruction of
Berdjaev's Rozanov"
         Anna Lisa Crone, University of Chicago
"Sights Unseen: Religion and Spectacle in Rozanov"
         Douglas Greenfield, Columbia University
"Rozanov between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Creating of the Self"
         Nina Perlina, Indiana University

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 8:00  pm, 217 Noyes Lab
"Secret Words For Secret Desires: Significations Of Homosexuality from
Rozanov to Nabokov"
Alexander Etkind (Literature, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia)

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1:00-4:15pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080), Foreign Languages
Building
Session:  Moonlighting
Chair and discussant: Henrietta Mondry, Canterbury University, New Zealand
"Turning Tricks, Baring Devices: Vasilii Rozanov as Prostitute"
         Konstantin Klioutchkine, Pomona College
"The Moonlight Moments in Rozanov, Florensky, and Berdiaev"
         Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College
"Liudi lunnogo sveta and Nabokov's Russian Prose"
         Joanna Trzeciak, University of Chicago)

SATURDAY, JUNE 21
Session:  Rozanov and Russian Literature:  An Eccentric Legacy
Chair and discussant: Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
"Gachev, eto Rozanov sevodnia, Or, Russia's Two Physiologists of Culture"
         Richard Tempest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Rozanov's Antidote: Erofeev, Siniavskii-Terts, and Ruptured Soviet Identities"
Edith W. Clowes, University of Kansas
"Polemics between Zeev Zabotinsky and V.V. Rozanov : From Rozanov's
'Judaism'(1902) to  Zabotinsky's The Five (1935)"
         Leonid Katsis, Russian State Humanities University, Moscow, Russia

SUNDAY, JUNE 22
Session:  Rozanov, Jews and Judaism
Chair and discussant:  Harriet Murav, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
"The Jewish Response to V. Rozanov - Jews in Russia's Silver Age Elite"
         Brian Horowitz, Tulane University
"A Phylogenetic Fantasy:  Vasily Rozanov on the Jews and Incest"
         Henrietta Mondry, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
"Rozanov, Kabala, and Talmud"
         Efim Kurganov, University of Helsinki, Finland

RECEPTION, 4:30 -6pm Foreign Languages Building, atrium

MONDAY, JUNE 23, 8:30 - 10:30 am, Illini Tower, West Lounge
Joint roundtable with the participants in the conference on Masculinities
in Russia.



Co-sponsors:
Foreign Languages Buiding Executive Officers' Committee, University of Illinois
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois
<http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/>Indiana University Russian and East
European Institute
<http://www.wisc.edu/creeca/index1.html>University of Wisconsin Center for
Russia, East Europe and Central Asia


Lynda Y. Park
Assistant Director
Russian and East European Center
104 International Studies Building, MC-487
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-6022; fax (217) 333-1582
lypark at uiuc.edu
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu

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