Symposium on Russian and Comparative Literature in Memory of James L. Rice

[Katya Hokanson]

Dear SEELANGtsy,

The University of Oregon would like to announce our upcoming Symposium on Russian and Comparative Literature in Memory of James L. Rice.  The Symposium honors a professor who taught at the University of Oregon for 34 years, primarily in the Russian Department but also in Comparative Literature, and was appointed Emeritus in 2001.  Conference participants come from universities across the country and will focus on works by Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Tolstoy, as well as comparative talks on Russian and Korean literature and Russian literature and the Harlem Renaissance,  as well on the role of Italy in Russian modernism..  Please see http://reees.uoregon.edu/in-memoriam for an obituary, and please see https://www.facebook.com/events/234938460033300/ to find the event on Facebook.  Free and open to the public.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, University of Oregon, 1468 University Avenue in Eugene, OR
 
 
9:30-11:45 a.m.
 
Kenneth Calhoon (UO): Welcome and Introduction
 
Anne Lounsbery (NYU): “Tatiana’s Countryside and Grinev’s Steppe: Pushkin Imagines Geographic Space”
 
Thomas Newlin (Oberlin): "Peasant Dreams and Nightmares at Yasnaya Polyana”
 
Susanna Lim (UO): “The Novel Moves East: A Cross-Cultural Reading of Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Park Kyoung-ni’s Land”
 
 
1:15-3:15 p.m. 
 
Lena Lencek (Reed): "The Aesthetic Lesson and Legacy of Venice in P.P. Muratov's Obrazy Italii"
 
Jenifer Presto (UO): “Zinaida Gippius on the Shores of the Ionian Sea”
 
Anindita Banerjee (Cornell): "Russia's Afrofuturism: T/racing Utopia between Moscow and Harlem"
 
 
3:30-5:30 p.m.  
 
Cynthia Vakareliyska (UO): “Fools Rush in, But Not into Bulgaria”
 
Alexander Zholkovsky (USC): “Dostoevsky’s ‘Gentle Spirit’: The Tangle of Time, Money, and Authoring”
 
Barry Scherr (Dartmouth): “Dostoevsky on Horseback”
 
 
Reception to Follow
 
Free and open to the public

For more information, contact presto at uoregon.edu
 
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