Workshop: "The End of the Story?" Problems and Perspectives of East European Literary Studies

[Elena Gapova]

Dear all,

in February, Princeton University is holding a workshop in Slavic literary
studies. The Program is below.
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“THE END OF THE STORY?”
Problems & Perspectives of East European Literary Studies

A two-day workshop at Princeton University

http://easteuropeanliterarystudies.wordpress.com


Preliminary Program

DAY 1, Friday, February 8, 2013

RESEARCH AND THE FIELD:
Current Scholarship in East European Literary Studies: Themes, Frameworks,
Methodologies, and Intellectual Trends

219 Aaron Burr Hall

9:15-9:30am:
Irena Grudzinska Gross, Serguei Oushakine, and Andrzej Tymowski:
Introductions and goals for the workshop

9:30-11:00am
PANEL I: AWAY FROM THE NATIONAL STORY?
Chair: Caryl Emerson (Princeton University)

Michał Paweł Markowski (University of Illinois, Chicago) From Nation to
Fascination

Jonathan Bolton (Harvard University) Reports on the Death of the National
Model

Jessie Labov (Ohio State University, Columbus) World Theory

11:15am-13:15pm
PANEL II: SCORCHED MAPS
Chair: Margaret Beissinger (Princeton University)

Wendy Bracewell (University College London) Out of Eastern Europe: New
Perspectives in Travel Writing Studies

Edyta Bojanowska (Rutgers University) The Story Yet to Be Told: Research on
Empire in Russian Literary Studies

Izabela Kalinowska Blackwood (Stony Brook) Polish-Russian Relations within
American Academia: from Affiliation to Filiation

Benjamin Paloff (University of Michigan) East is Always Further East

14:00-3:30pm
PANEL 3: REFRAMING THE STORY
Chair: Serguei Alex. Oushakine (Princeton University)

Beth Holmgren (Duke University) Reframing the Story

Marci Shore (Yale University)Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from
Central Europe

Thomas Ort (Queens College) Intellectual Historical Approaches, Carl
Schorske in Prague

3:45-5:45 pm
PANEL 4: MOVING TARGETS
Chair: Petre Petrov (Princeton University)

Sean Cotter (University of Texas, Dallas) Translation Studies

Alice Lovejoy (University of Minnesota) Historical and Comparative
Directions in East Central European Film & Media Studies

Tomislav Z. Longinović (University of Wisconsin, Madison) From East
European Studies to Vampirology: Notes from the Veteran Field Warrior

6:00 – 6:45 pm  KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University): ‘Non-Strategic’ Eastern Europe
and the Fate of the Humanities

DAY 2, Saturday, February 9, 2013
THE PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FIELD

Aaron Burr Hall, 216

9:15-9:30am:
Andrzej Tymowski: Goals for today

9:30-11:30am
PANEL V: NEW DIRECTIONS
Chair: Irena Grudzińska Gross

Joanna Niżyńska (Harvard University) Notes on Polish Studies in the Age of
Cultural Globalization

Sibelan Forrester (Swathmore College) Eastern European Area Studies – From
Outside the Area

Roman Koropeckyi (University of California, Los Angeles) Intellectual
Agenda and Practical Prospects

Closed Sessions:
11:45am-13:00pm

SESSION 1: SUMMARY OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Serguei Oushakine
Participants: Beth Holmgren, Wendy Bracewell, Michał Paweł Markowski,
Jessie Labov.

2:00 – 3:30pm
SESSION 2: ISSUES IN THE FIELD
Andrzej Tymowski, moderator

3:45-5:00pm:
SESSION 3: SUMMING UP


The Workshop is organized by:

Irena Grudzinska Gross, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
Princeton University and the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of
Sciences;

Serguei Oushakine, Director, Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies as
well as Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton
University;

Andrzej Tymowski, American Council of Learned Societies and Warsaw
University

Sponsoring Institutions:

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)

American Council of Learned Societies

Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, Princeton University

European Cultural Studies Program, Princeton University

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

http://easteuropeanliterarystudies.wordpress.com/about/

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