AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear Colleagues:

Below, on behalf of the Presidents of AATSEEL-Wisconsin, Halina Filipowicz
and David Danaher (hfilipow at wisc.edu, dsdanaher at wisc.edu), I post below the
program for this weekend¹s conference.  There are no registration fees for
the conference:  please come and join us in beautiful Madison.

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin


2004 AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference

Friday, October 15, 2004
A Free and Public Lecture

"The Muslim as Ideal Christian:
Dostoevsky, Islam, and Notes from the House of the Dead"

 by Gary Rosenshield,
 Professor Emeritus of Slavic Literature,
 University of Wisconsin-Madison

4:00 ­ 5:30 pm  
1418 Van Hise Hall 
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, Wisconsin


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There is no conference registration fee; the conference is open to the
public.  


Saturday, October 16, 2004
8:45 am ­ 3:30 pm  
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
Madison, Wisconsin

8:45-9:00 Coffee and Tea

9:00-11:00 Panel I:  Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
Chair:  Keith Meyer-Blasing, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:  Gretchen Aiyangar, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Onegin's Lost Duel"

 Grigori Utgof, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 "An Approach to The Captain's Daughter"

Erik McDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Sources of the Comic in Gogol's Marriage"

Emily Shaw, University of Wisconsin-Madison
³Rereading Tolstoy¹s The Death of Ivan Ilych:  A Study in Personal Distance²

Victoria Thorstensson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 "Three Faces of a Lyrical Heroine: The Development of the Images of Women
in the Poetry of Afanasy Fet"


11:00-12:15 Panel II:  Twentieth-Century Slavic Prose
Chair:  Emily Shaw, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:  Ben Jens, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Volodymyr Chumachenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 "Shaping the Identity of the Subaltern: Soviet Ukrainian Historical Novel
in the 1960-1970s" 

Viktoria Ivleva, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 "The Poet in the Prose: Nabokov's Metaphorical Thinking"

Eliot Borenstein,  New York University
 "Trickle-Down Fascism: The Domestication of Conspiratorial Narrative after
1991" 


12:15-1:00 Lunch  

1:00-1:15 Coffee and Tea

1:15-1:30 Eulogy for Rebecca Epstein Matveyev, Lawrence University


1:30-2:20 Panel III, Issues in Russian Language Pedagogy
Chair:  Matthew Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:  Brian Minier, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Julia Mikhailova, Ohio State University
 "A Comparison of Syntactical Complexity of Speech Delivered by Students of
Russian in the Oral Proficiency Interview and the Simulated Oral Proficiency
Interview" 

 Benjamin Rifkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 "Learning Outcomes in Russian: Data from Middlebury and Madison"


2:20-3:30 Panel IV:  Slavic Texts / Intertexts in a European Context
Chair:  Laura Little, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:   Brian R. Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Artur Placzkiewicz, University of Toronto and University of
Wisconsin-Madison 
 "Miron Bialoszewski: Truth, Participation, and Vertical Ducks"

 Noah W. Sobe, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 "Pan-Slavism as a Cosmopolitanism: Yugoslav Student and Teacher Travels to
Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s"

 Jennifer Tishler, CREECA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 "The Image of Maria Volkonskaia in the Poetry and Lyric Dramas of Nelly
Sachs" 


Halina Filipowicz and David Danaher, Co-Chairs of AATSEEL-Wisconsin


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Benjamin Rifkin
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor and Chair, Slavic Dept.
1432 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic

Director, Title VI Center for Russia, E. Europe & Central Asia (CREECA)
210 Ingraham Hall, 1550 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-3379; Fax (608) 265-3602
http://www.wisc.edu/creeca

 




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