Symposium on Satirical Journals

[Marcus Levitt]

Dear Colleagues,
 
You are cordially invited to join us for the following symposium.
 
Poison Pens: the Satirical Journals of the 1905 Revolution 
September 9, 2011
Friends Lecture Hall, 240 Doheny Memorial Library, University of
Southern California 
 
Open to the public.  
Lunch will be served.
 
9 - 12:30  Morning Session
 
Janet Kennedy, Department of Art History, Indiana University,
 “’What is to be done?’ - Artistic Responses to the Revolution of
1905”
 
Jeffrey Brooks, Department of History,  The Johns Hopkins University:
“The Satirical Turn in Russian Culture”
 
Louise McReynolds, Department of History, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, “Pornographies of Freedom: Raping the Virgin in the
Satirical Journals.”
 
Frederick H. White, Associate Dean, Utah Valley University: "The Danger
of Decadence and Degeneration"
 
12:30 – 1: 45  Lunch Break
 
1: 50 – 4:30  Afternoon session
 
Margaret B. Betz, Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design®
“Censors Spur Russian Abstract Painting”
 
Azade-Ayse Rorlich, Department of History,  University of Southern
California: 
“Pictorial Debates: Tatar Satirical Journals and Muslim Modernity
Discourses, 1906-1917”
 
Stephen M. Norris, Department of History, Miami University (OH):
 “Ugly Nationhood:  Pliuvium and the Imagining of Russian
Anti-Semitism.”
 
Edward Portnoy, Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University:
 "Mocking the Masters and Creating a Nation: The Yiddish Satire Press
in Late Imperial Russia."
 
4:30 – Opening of the exhibit in the Treasure Room (first floor, Doheny
Library)
 
5:00 -  Reception
 
The symposium marks the opening of the exhibit “Demonocracy: All Hell
Breaks Loose in 1905 Russia” that will be held in Doheny Library’s
Treasure Room, The University of Southern California.  It also
celebrates  USC’s Russian Satirical Journals Project, which is putting
the university’s extensive collection  of journals on line (see
http://dotsx2.usc.edu:3006/rsj/ or just Google: Russian Satirical
Journals).
 
For information, contact: Marcus Levitt. levitt at usc.edu
 
 
Marcus Levitt, Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353
Fax (213) 740-8550
Tel  (213) 740-2736
Departmental Pages: http://college.usc.edu/sll/
Personal Web Pages: 
http://college.usc.edu/levitt/
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~levitt/

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