Workshop on 20th-21st Century Russian Literature and Culture

[Ron Vroon]

The UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA is pleased 
to announce a Workshop on 20th and 21st Century Russian Literature and 
Culture, to be held on Friday, April 28 from 9 AM to 6 PM on the UCLA 
campus, 1648 Hershey Hall. This is the first of what we hope will be a 
biennial series of workshops focusing on this time period. Workshop 
presentations will consist of brief (15-minute) presentations on works in 
progress followed by an equal period of discussion and debate. We welcome 
your participation!

Ronald Vroon
Chair, Slavic Languages & Literatures

PROGRAM

Friday Morning Session

Introductory Remarks (R. Vroon)



Session I (9:00 - 12:00): Chair: Alexander Zholkovsky



Sally Pratt (USC): Khlebnikov, an Icon Not Made By Human Hands, and a Poem 
Not Spoken by Human Tongues
Susanna Lim (UCLA): East Asia and Russian Symbolism (Ivanov, Bely, Blok)
Tom Seifrid (USC): Bulgakov, the Mystery Genre, and Urban Space in Soviet 
Culture of the 1920s and 1930s
Nora Ryan (UCLA): Architects and the Avant-Garde: Communal Housing Designs 
of the 1920s
Alexander Dolinin (U. of Wisconsin): The Problem of Opaque Allusions in 
Pasternak's Early Poetry
John Narins (UCLA): Literary Design and Extraliterary Conduct (the Case of 
N.M. Oleinikov)


Lunch: 12-1



Session II: 1:00 - 3:30 Chair : Alexander Dolinin



Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov (UCLA): Vasilii Grossman's Life and Fate: From Notes 
of a Military Correspondant to Epic Novel
Natal'ia Tikhonova UCLA): The social, psychological and philosophical space 
in von Sternberg's screen version of Crime and Punishment
John Bowlt (USC): Pavel Filonov and the Concept of 'Universal Flowering'
Stanislav Shvabrin (UCLA): 'Et j'en sais d'immortels qui sont de purs 
sanglots...' (Alfred de  Musset in Vladimir Nabokov's Eulogy of Vladislav 
Khodasevich)
Lazar Fleishman (Stanford): Above the Barriers: Leonid Pasternak and the 
Arguments on Jewish Art in early 20th century.


3:30-4:00 Break



Session III: 4:00:- 6:00 Chair: Ronald Vroon



Alexander Zholkovsky (USC): Issues in Russian Infinitive Poetry with Special 
Reference to Anna Akhmatova's 'Prosypat'sia na rassvete'
David MacFadyen (UCLA): The Problems of Defining Cultural Prominence in 
Second-World Modernity: On-Line Music
Lada Panova (Russian Language Institute, Moscow): Egypt in Russian Silver 
Age Literature
Henryk Baran (SUNY Albany): Problems in the History of the Protocols of Zion 

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