discussants needed: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

[KALB, JUDITH]

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to ask for your assistance filling some gaps in the program for the SCSS conference to be held next month (3/21-23) in Greensboro, NC.  What follows is a list of panels that require a discussant.  If you'd be willing to serve, I would be most grateful if you could let me know at jkalb at sc.edu<mailto:jkalb at sc.edu>.  Many thanks for your consideration!

Judy



Dr. Judith E. Kalb

Assoc. Prof. of Russian

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

jkalb at sc.edu<mailto:jkalb at sc.edu>



1.4. West Meets East: Influences from Abroad in the Soviet Union

Chair: Lee Farrow, Auburn University Montgomery

Getting Together then Falling Apart: Tomsky and British Trade Unionists during NEP

            Charters Wynn, University of Texas at Austin

If America is so Good, Why Didn’t it Launch the Sputnik?: Official Propaganda and Public Reaction to America in the Khrushchev Period

            Konstantin Avramov, California State University-Sacramento

An Endnote to History: Julian Huxley, Soviet Scholars, and UNESCO’s History of Mankind, 1945-1967

            Louis Porter, UNC Chapel Hill

Black in the USSR: African Diasporan Pilgrims, Expatriates and Students in the USSR

            Joy Carew, University of Louisville

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2.5. East Meets West: Influences from Eastern Europe in America (AV)

Chair: M. Benjamin Thorne, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

Performing Russia: Revising, Reinterpreting, and Reframing the Russian Avant-Garde

            Roann Barris, Radford University

Suburban Socialist Realism: Soviet Artistic Influences in 1930s New Jersey

            Susan Smith-Peter, College of Staten Island

Petru Comarnescu in America: A View of the West from the East

            Cristina Bejan, Duke University

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3.2.  Parallels in Russian Literature

Chair: Martha Kuchar, Roanoke College

Colonized Maps, Imagined Spaces: Double-Consciousness and Diaspora in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Krokodil (1865) and Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Partir (2006)

            Michele Frucht Levy, North Carolina A&T University

Exploring the Dark Side: Versilov as the Devil in Dostoevsky’s A Raw Youth

            Katya Jordan, Virginia Tech

Woland and Afranius: Linked Characters

            Brendan Mooney, University of South Carolina

Discussant:


4.6. Perspectives on 21st Century Russian Literature

Chair: Alexander Ogden, University of South Carolina

Reading, Writing, Reflecting: Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Sviashchennyi musor and the (Possible) Conclusion of a Career

            Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee: University of the South

Granny Knots: Unraveling the Past in Elena Chizhova’s Time of Women

            Kurt Shaw, Wake Forest University

New Trends in Translation of Modern Russian Prose

            Carol Apollonio, Duke University

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6.4. Examining Western Influences in Russian Art and Culture

Chair: Katya Jordan, Virginia Tech

The Russian Artist in Plato’s Republic

            Michelle Panchuk, University of South Carolina

“I golova zhe byl etot Zhorzha!”: Tolstoy, the Single Tax, and the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth

            Jesse Stavis, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Decadent, but Dangerous: The Struggle of a Soviet Culturologist to Describe Bourgeois Mass Culture

            David Graber, UNC Wilmington

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