Conference in honor of Robert L. Belknap

[Irina Reyfman]

Dear Seelangers,

 

This is to remind that the conference in Robert L. Belknap honor will take
place at the end of this week, on February 12 and 13 in Hamilton Hall,
Columbia University.  The final program is pasted below.

 

Sincerely,

Irina Reyfman

Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Slavic Languages

Columbia University

Phone (212) 854-5696

Fax (212) 854-5009

 

 

A Conference in Honor of Robert L. Belknap  

Formulations: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

 

All panels take place in 717 Hamilton Hall.

 

Friday, February 12, 2010

 

1:30 to 2:00: Coffee, tea, and company in 709 Hamilton Hall

 

2:00-2:45:        Opening remarks by Cathy Popkin 

                         Opening address by Robin Feuer Miller:  "The
Teacher and the Text"

 

 

2:45-4:15 

Chair: Hilde Hoogenboom

Deborah A. Martinsen:  "Getting Away With Murder: Teaching Crime and
Punishment"

Olga Meerson: "Polyphony and Close Reading in the Classroom"

Liza Knapp: "Teaching Raskolnikov's Dream: On Regarding the Pain of Others"

Valentina Izmirlieva: "Crimes of the Foot, Passions of the Mouth: Teaching
Crime and Punishment as 'Great Book'"

 

4:15-4:30: Coffee break in 709 Hamilton Hall

 

4:30-6:00:

Chair: Tatiana Smoliarova

Boris Gasparov: "Overcoming the Narrator's Presence: The Impact of Early
Romantic Aesthetics on the Narrative Shape of the Novel"

Marcia A. Morris: "Road Rage: Dead Souls and the Quest for Fixity"

Svetlana Grenier:  "Searching for Freedom in Russian Novels of Adultery"

William Mills Todd III: "The Birth of a Novel from the Work of Journalism:
Saltykov-Shchedrin's Golovlevs"

 

6:00 Reception in Center for the Core Curriculum 202 Hamilton Hall

 

Saturday, February 13, 2010

 

10:00-11:30

Chair: Robert L. Jackson

Gary Saul Morson: "Textual Absences"

Maude Meisel: "The Power of Pedagogy: Dispelling the Darkness in Tolstoy's
Drama"

Elizabeth Beaujour:  "'Visible Only in Very Clear Weather': Teaching
Chekhov's Second Acts"

Andrew Durkin:  "On Models of Discourse in Some Chekhov Stories"

 

11:30-1:00: Lunch break

 

1:00-:2:30

Chair: Marina Ledkovsky

Gina Kovarsky: "The Enigma of Pechorin"

Rebecca Stanton:  "Heroes of our Time: Unwrapping the Nested Autobiographies
in Lermontov's Novel"

Jefferson Gatrall:  "An Inconvenient Footnote: Lermontov's A Hero of Our
Time and the Circassian Genocide"

Cathy Popkin:  "Teaching 'Literature and Empire': The Case for Anna
Karenina"

 

2:30-3:00: Coffee break in 709 Hamilton Hall

 

3:00-4:30

Chair: Richard Gustafson

Irina Reyfman: "Literature in the Original for the Defective Detective, or
Teaching Suspect Grammar to Unsuspecting Students"

Ellen Chances:  "Why Winnie the Pooh is Relevant to Teaching Dostoevsky:
Notes from Underground Revisited"

Nancy Workman: "Notes from a Cave: Teaching Dostoevsky in a Philosophy
Course"

Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy: "Teaching the Humanities in a
Post-Humanities Age, or Is There a Moral in This Text?"

 

4:30: closing remarks by Deborah A. Martinsen

 

 


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