Slavic Historical Mythologies at Penn: Detailed Information

[Kevin M. F. Platt]

Dear Colleagues:

Please attend: Slavic Historical Mythologies, a Symposium, on April  
27 at the University of Pennsylvania.

For detailed information and downloadable pre-circulated papers (not  
for citation), please refer to the program site at:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/calendar/ 
historical_mythologies_april_2007/hist_myth.htm

All conference panels will take place at the Max Kade center, 3401  
Walnut St., rm. 329A (at the corner of Walnut and 34th St.)

The program includes:
9:15-9:45 Coffee and pastries

9:45-10:00 Opening remarks

10:00-12:00 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

12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided for participants)

1:00-3:00 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

2:45-3:15 Coffee Break

3:15-5:15 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

5:30-7:30 Dinner Reception, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 224







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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