Program: "Sots-Speak: Regimes of Language under Socialism" (Princeton, May 20-22)

Wed May 18 18:35:03 UTC 2011

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Le 18 mai 2011 à 20:28, Petre Petrov a écrit :

Friday, May 20

12:30 Welcome Address

12:45 ˆ 2:45	Panel 1	LINGUISTIC ANATOMIES

Konstantin Bogdanov (Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg): „Soviet 
Language Culture in the Light of Ethnolinguistics‰

Anastasia Smirnova (Ohio State U): „Aligning Language to Ideology: A Socio-
Semantic Analysis of Communist and Democratic Discourse in Bulgaria‰

Câlin Morar Vulcu (Babe?-Bolyai U, Cluj): „From Subject of Action to Object of 
Description: Classes in Romanian State-Socialist Discourse‰

Chair: Olga Hasty (Princeton U) 
Discussant: Mirjam Fried (Czech Academy of Sciences)

3:00 ˆ 5:15		Panel 2	MAKING THINGS WITH WORDS

Choi Chatterjee (California State U, Los Angeles): „Lady in Red: Bolshevik 
Feminism in the American Imagination, 1917-1939‰

Samantha Sherry (U of Edinburgh): „Bird Watchers of the World, Unite! The 
Language of Ideology in Soviet Translation‰ 

Jessie Labov (Ohio State U): „The Puzzle of the Yugoslav Nationalist/Dissident 
from Helsinki to Dayton‰ 

Alyssa DeBlasio (Dickinson College): „Philosophical Rhetoric and Istoriia russkoi 
filosofii‰

Chair: David Bellos (Princeton U)
Discussant: Irena Grudzinska Gross (Princeton U)

5:30 ˆ 6:45		KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jochen Hellbeck
Associate Professor, Rutgers University
„The Language of Soviet Experience and Its Meanings‰

Saturday, May 21

9:00 ˆ 11:00	Panel 3	SPEAKING STALINESE

Carol Any (Trinity College): „Sots-Speak and Self-Concept in the Soviet 
Writers‚ Union under Stalin‰

Ilya Venyavkin (Russian State U for the Humanities): „Mystical Insight under 
Socialism: The Language of Political Confessions in the Late 1930s‰

Anastasiya Ryabchuk (National U of Kyiv Mohila Academy): „Parasites, Asocials, 
and Work-Shy: Discursive Constructions of Homelessness and Vagrancy in the 
USSR‰

Chair: Petre Petrov (Princeton U)
Discussant: Jochen Hellbeck (Rutgers U) 

11:15 ˆ 1:15	Panel 4	FIGURES OF RHETORIC

Elena Gapova (Western Michigan U / European Humanities U): „ŒThe Party 
Solemnly Proclaims: The Present Generation of Soviet People Shall Live in 
Communism‚: The Rhetoric of Utopia in the Khrushchev Era‰

Karen Petrone (U of Kentucky): „Afghanistan and the New Discourse of War in 
the Late Soviet Era‰

Yulia Minkova (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U): „Our Man in Chile, or 
Victor Jara‚s Posthumous Life in the Soviet Media and Popular Culture‰

Chair: Ellen Chances (Princeton U)
Discussant: Eliot Borenstein (New York U) 

2:30 ˆ 4:45		Panel 5	ON THE LITERARY FRONT

Maria Kisel (Lawrence U): „Satirical and Philosophical Dimensions of Sots-Speak 
in Andrei Platonov‚s Fiction‰

Natalia Skradol (Hebrew U / Ben Gurion U of the Negev): „The Evolution of the 
Soviet Bestiary: Satirical Fables from Bednyi to Mikhalkov‰

Eva Cermanova (U of Aberdeen): „The Diktat of Language: Bureaucratic 
Paranoia in Havel‚s Memorandum‰

Baktygul Aliev (McGill U): „Visuality in V. Narbikova‚s Okolo Ekolo‰

Chair: Emily Van Buskirk (Rutgers U)
Discussant: Helena Goscilo (Ohio State U) 

5:00 ˆ 6:15		MEDIA PRESENTATION
Vitaly Komar: "Word and Image: The Duality of Sots-Art"

Sunday, May 22 

9:00 ˆ 11:15	Panel 6    PRACTICES OF LANGUAGE 

Jonathan Larsson (U of Iowa): „Heteroglossic Hazards: Wooden Language and 
Fiery Kritika in Socialist Czechoslovakia‰

James Robertson (New York U): „Speaking Titoism: Non-Alignment and the 
Language Regime of Yugoslav Socialism‰

Susanne Cohen (Temple U): „In and Out of Frame: The Soviet Training as 
Sots-Speak‰

Julia Lerner and Claudia Zbenovich (Ben Gurion U of the Negev / Hadassah 
College of Jerusalem): „Talk and Dress: Adapting the Therapeutic Paradigm to 
Post-Soviet Speak‰

Chair: Margaret Beissinger (Princeton U)
Discussant: Anna Katsnelson (Princeton U)

11:30 ˆ 1:30	Panel 7   DISCURSIVE LEFTOVERS

Maria Sidorkina Rives (Yale U): „Authoritative Discourse in Post-Authoritarian 
Russia‰

Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (Edinburgh U): „Stalinism as an Auteur Project: Meta 
Sots-Speak in Contemporary Russian Public Discourse‰

Gasan Gusejnov (Academy of National Economy / Moscow State U): „On the 
Vitality of Artificial, or Stalin‚s Rhetoric Revisited‰ 

Chair: Rossen Djagalov (Yale U)
Discussant: Caryl Emerson (Princeton U)

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