AATSEEL-Wisconsin 2008 program

[VIKTORIYA KONONOVA]

Dear Seelangers,

Below is the program for AATSEEL-Wisconsin 2008 conference, which is taking place this coming weekend. If you are in the area, please come, everybody is welcome! 

Sincerely,
Victoria Kononova
PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison



AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference
17-18 October 2007
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, October 17, 4:00pm
Keynote Lecture
Pyle Center, Rm. 213

“Memories of a Career in Slavic”

Dr. James Bailey, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison


Saturday, October 18
Conference Papers
Pyle Center, Rm. 213

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


Panel: "Exile: At Home and Abroad" (9-10:30am)
Chair: Darya Ivashniova
Secretary: Victoria Kononova

Naomi Olson, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Journey to the ‘Kingdom of the Ill:’ Childhood Illness in Writings of Bunin and Nabokov” 

Lisa Woodson, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Living Martyrdom in Anna Akhmatova’s The Way of All the Earth”

Sergey Karpukhin, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Joseph Brodsky and Samuel Beckett” 

10 min coffee break
Panel: "Creative Dialogue and Appropriation in Slavic Literatures" (10:40 am-12:40pm)
Chair: Naomi Olson
Secretary: Katie Weigel

David Houston, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“To My Verses:  Transposition of a Theme in Horace, Kantemir and Brodsky”

Ellen Polglaze, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Wishes of a Poet: A Cognitive Approach to Metaphor in Koz’ma Prutkov”


Benjamin Jens, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“‘Черногорцы?  Что такое?’: Petar II Petrović Njegoš’s ‘Ode to the Neva,’ Empire and the Petersburg Text”

Matt Walker, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Gogol, Rozanov, and the Legacies of Criticism”

LUNCH 1hr 5 min (12:40-1:45pm)

Panel: "Transcending Boundaries of Genre, Medium, and Gender" (1:45-3:15pm)
Chair: Sarah Kapp
Secretary: Antonella Caloro

David Danaher, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“‘The Restlessness of Transcendence:’ Václav Havel’s Genres”

Molly Thomasy, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“What Lies Beyond the Frame: Painting and Photography in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska”

Oleksandra Shchur, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“The Crisis of Traditional Masculinity in Postcommunist Fiction: Jachym Topol’s City Sister Silver and Yuri Andrukhovych’s Perverzion”

15 min coffee break

Panel: "Exploring the Un/real: Wax People, Gargoyles and Shrooms" (3:30-5:00pm) 
Chair: Molly Thomasy
Secretary: Jesse Stavis

Dan Ungurianu, Russian Studies, Vassar College
“Voskovye persony: K voprosu o topose panoptikuma v literature russkogo modernizma”

Victoria Kononova, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Gargoyles in Philadelphia: the Problem of Identity and Genre in Danuta Mostwin's Theatrical Tale”

Daria Safronova, Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University
“Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Lonely Shroom in a Country of Fools: A 1991 Dadaist Attack on Soviet Mass Consciousness”

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