Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Gainesville, Florida (March 25-27)

[Gorham,Michael S]

48th Annual Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, hosted by the University of Florida, March 25-27

In addition to 40 panels of scholars from North America, Russia, and Europe....

***Plenary roundtable: "Gas Wars, Colored Revolutions, and Media Politics in Russia and the 'Near Abroad'" (Friday, 3/26, 4-6 PM, Pugh Hall Ocora)
-- Paul D'Anieri, Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Florida
-- Ellen Mickiewicz, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
-- Lucan Way, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Toronto
-- Zachary Selden, Deputy Secretary General for Policy, NATO Parliamentary Assembly
-- Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Senior Policy Fellow for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
[http://www.languages.ufl.edu/events/2010-slavic/roundtable.html]
Free and open to the public

***Keynote speaker: Professor Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University, "History Wars: Memory and Geopolitics in Eastern Europe"

***Roundtable: "In Memory of Richard Stites: Scholar, Mentor, Colleague, Friend." (David Goldfrank, Peter Kenez, Randy Law, Sue Ament, Gary Marker)

***Film screening: "Cold Souls" (2009) (Thursday, March 25, 7:30 - 9:30 PM, Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art)
Trailer: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/coldsouls/
Free and open to the public.

***Guest Lecture: Stephen Pearl, "'Scripta Manent, Verba Volant" (What Is Written Remains, What Is Said Flies Away): Simultaneous Interpretation and Written Translation - Siblings or Distant Cousins? Some Unexplored Differences." (Thursday, March 25, 1:55 - 3 PM, 120 Pugh Hall)
Stephen Pearl is the former head of the English interpretation department of the United Nations and winner of the AATSEEL Prize for Best Literary Translation for 2008 for his translation of Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov.

Conference website: http://www.languages.ufl.edu/events/2010-slavic/

Preliminary conference program: http://www.languages.ufl.edu/events/2010-slavic/schedule.pdf
Conference registration required to attend panels (Grad students: $20/Undergrads: $10). All panels will take place at the UF Hilton Conference Center.


--
Michael S. Gorham
Associate Professor of Russian Studies
Associate Editor, The Russian Review & Russian Language Journal
Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
University of Florida






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