Please attend:
SLAVIC HISTORICAL MYTHOLOGIES
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Rm. 329A
(34th and Walnut – above Starbucks)
April 27, 2007
915 – 945 Coffee and pastries
945 – 1000 Opening remarks
1000 – 1200 Panel I: Medieval
Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University, “The ‘Unclean People’ of the
Revelations of Pseudo-Methodios of Patara in the Povest’ vremennykh let”
Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania, “Myths about Myths:
the Makeover of the Slavic Sibylline Prophecies”
Michael Pesenson, Swarthmore College, “Changing Perceptions of the
Antichrist in Russian Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to
the Silver Age”
Discussant: Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
1200 - 100 Lunch (provided for participants)
100 – 300 Panel II: Nineteenth Century
Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania. “Russian Glubbdubdrib:
Dimitry’s Shade and the Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism”
Katerina Clark, Yale University, “The Cult of Byron in 1930s Russia”
Galin Tikhanov, Lancaster University, “Organicity: towards the
history of a discourse”
Discussant: Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania
245 – 315 Coffee Break
315 – 515 Panel III: Twentieth Century
Mark Steinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
“Wandering in Shattered Time: The Mythic Melancholy of Lost Pasts,
Ruined Presents, and Catastrophic Futures”
David Brandenberger, Richmond University, “"The Great Retreat:
Stalin’s Cooption of Russian Historical Myths in the Eyes of the Left
Intelligentsia.”
Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, "Princeton’s Boris Godunov
(April 2007): Russian myths meet American realities—and resources”
Discussant: Peter Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
530 – 730 Dinner Reception at location TBA
Associate Professor Kevin M. F. Platt
Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
745 Williams Hall
255 S. 36th Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
kmfplatt at sas.upenn.edu
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic
Tel: 215-746-0173
Fax: 215-573-7794
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