Program: AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference 10/19-10/20

[Molly Thomasy]

Dear SEELANGers,

If you find yourself in the Midwest this weekend, please consider joining us for the annual conference of the Wisconsin chapter of AATSEEL.  The conference, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Pyle Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday and Saturday, October 19-20.  The event will feature a keynote lecture by Dr. Marcel Cornis-Pope on Friday at 4pm, and a full program of 20-minute papers on Saturday from 9am-4:30pm. The complete conference schedule is listed below.

With best wishes,

Molly Thomasy
thomasy at wisc.edu
AATSEEL-WI Conference Chair

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                     AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference
                            19-20 October 2006  
                    University of Wisconsin-Madison


Friday, October 19, 4:00pm
Keynote Lecture 
Pyle Center

“Writing the History of East-Central European Literary Cultures: 
Transnational and Comparative Paradigms”

Dr. Marcel Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth University


Saturday, October 20, Pyle Center
Conference Papers 

Coffee/Tea (8:45-9:00am)

_New Perspectives on Genre and Gender in Performance_ (9-11:15am)

Erin Hood, Theater and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Open Households: Theatrical Representations of Family Life in Early Soviet Russia”

Bethany Wood, Theater and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Obscurity and Incongruity in OBERIUity: A Critical Look at the Children’s Literature and Short Plays of Daniil Kharms”

Shannon Blake Skelton, Theater and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“‘There is No Past . . . There is No Future': Mikhail Bulgakov and the Science Fiction Drama”

Laura Wineland, Theater and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Double Meaning: Theatrical Strategies in the Execution of Soviet Russian Justice”

Elena V. Baraban, German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba 
“Humour and the Masculine Identity In the Television Series _Streets of Broken Lights_”


15 min coffee break


_Inspiration for the Writing Process: Mechanical, Medical, Divine_ (11:30-12:45pm)

Kathleen Scollins, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
“Kako sdelan Akakij: Letter as Hero in _Shinel'_”

Brian R. Johnson, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
“Epilepsy and “Mystic Horror”: Intersecting Nervous Disorders in Dostoevsky’s _The Insulted and the Injured_” 

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Vladimir Solovyov, Automatic Writing, and the Channeling of Divine Sophia”


LUNCH 1hr 15 min (12:45-2:00pm)


_Russian Émigré Writers: Narratives of Love and Memory_ (2:00-3:00pm)

Stephanie Richards, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Amata nobis quantum amabitur nulla: a study of Ivan Bunin’s Dark Avenues”

Lisa Woodson, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Learning to Sing in a Strange Land: Disillusionment and the Remapping of Memory in Gaito Gazdanov’s _Vecher u Kler_”


_20th Century Russian Literature: Text and Intertext_ (3:00-4:30pm)

Stuart Goldberg, School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology
"'To Anaxagoras' in the Velvet Night:  New Considerations on the Role of Blok in Mandelstam's 'V Peterburge my soidemsia snova.'"

Matthew McGarry, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
“The Poet and the Leader: A Reappraisal of Pasternak’s 'Mne po dushe stroptivyj norov'”

Molly Thomasy, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
“Rewriting Pushkin’s Death: Tat’iana Tolstaia’s ‘Siuzhet’ in Literary and Cultural Context”



This conference is funded in part by the Associated Students of Madison.  ASM does not necessarily endorse the beliefs or actions of this organization.

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