Berkeley-Stanford Platonov Workshop: May 11, 2013

[nariman skakov]

Dear Colleagues,

Below is the Berkeley-Stanford Platonov workshop program. Please contact
Jason Cieply (cieplyj at gmail.com) if you would like to attend the workshop.

Best,

~
Nariman Skakov

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Stanford University
450 Serra Mall, Building 240
Stanford, CA 94305



*Berkeley-Stanford Platonov Workshop*

*May 11, 2013: Board Room, Humanities Center, Stanford*

*Hosted by Eric Naiman (Berkeley) and Nariman Skakov (Stanford)*



*Program*



*10.00-10.15     Welcome address by Eric Naiman and Nariman Skakov*

* ** *

*10.15-12.00     First panel*

* *

1.     Jason Cieply (Stanford) 'Platonov and the Use of Enthusiastic
Consciousness for Life'

2.     Emily Laskin (Berkeley) '"Я против теории": Platonov and Stalinism'

3.     David Parker (Stanford) '"O splendid 19th century, you were wrong!":
Fascism in Platonov's 'Musornyi veter' and 'Po nebu polunochi''



Respondent: Evgeny Dobrenko (Professor and Head of Department of Russian
and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield, UK)

* *

*12.00-1.00       Lunch*

* ** *

*1.00-2.45         Second panel*

* *

1.     Matthew Kendall (Berkeley) 'Listening to Platonov's Sounds'

2.     Cory Merrill (Berkeley) 'There is No Wind in the Womb: Homelessness,
Recollection, and Remembering in Platonov's *Dzhan*'

3.     Daniel Bush (Stanford) 'Searching for Communism in Words: Violence
and Knowing in *Chevengur *and *Dzhan*'



Respondent: Thomas Seifrid (Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California)



*2.45-3.00         Coffee*

* *

*3.00-4.45         Third panel*

* *

1.     Hannah Gould (Stanford) 'Naming Communism in Platonov's *Chevengur*'

2.     Christina Schwartz (Berkeley) '"Огромные женские ноги": Confronting
History in Platonov's *Chevengur*'

3.     Alice Underwood (Stanford) 'Platonov's Destabilized Members'



Respondent: Eliot Borenstein (Professor and Chair of the Department of
Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University)



*4.45-5.45         General discussion*

* *

*5.45-7.00         Dinner reception*

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