27-28 February: RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA Conference at Columbia Full Program

[Edward J Tyerman]

*RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA:*

*IMAGINATION, EXCHANGE, TRAVEL, TRANSLATION*


*Conference at Columbia University, 27-28 February*



*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27*



*International Affairs Building (IAB), Room 1501*



6:00-7:15pm *KEYNOTE LECTURE*



Katerina Clark (Yale): *"*China in the Leftist Imagination of the 1920s and
1930s"



*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28*



*International Affairs Building (IAB), Room 1512*



8:45am- Coffee and pastries



9:00-10:45am *PANEL 1: TRANSLATION AND INFLUENCE*



Chair: Lydia Liu (Columbia)



Kateryna Bugayevska (Tsinghua): "The Beijing Institute of Russian Language
and the Translation of Russian Literature in 20th Century China"



Mark Gamsa (Tel Aviv University): "Refractions of China in Russia and
Russia in China: Translation and Material Culture"



Mitsuyoshi Numano (University of Tokyo): "The Role of Russian Literature in
the Development of Modern Japanese Literature from the 1880s to the 1930s:
Some Remarks on its Peculiarities"



Discussant*: *Eugenia Lean (Columbia)



10:45am-11:00am: COFFEE BREAK



11:00am-12:45pm *PANEL 2:* *TOLSTOY IN EAST ASIA*



Chair: Liza Knapp (Columbia)



Xiaolu Ma (Harvard): "Transculturation of Tolstoy's Religious Humanism in
East Asia"



Susanna Lim (University of Oregon): "The Novel Moves East: A Cross-Cultural
Reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace and Park Kyoung-ni's Land"



Andrew Leong (Northwestern): "Leo Tolstoy, Arishima Takeo, and the
Russo-Japanese War"



Discussant: Paul Anderer (Columbia)



12:45pm-2:00pm: LUNCH BREAK



2:00pm-3:45pm *PANEL 3: ENCOUNTERS AND TRANSFORMATIONS*



Chair: Matt Mangold (Rutgers)



Edyta Bojanowska (Rutgers): "Prying Open Japan and Prospecting Korea:
Goncharov's *The Frigate Pallada* and the Russian Push to the Far East in
the 1850s"



Katy Sosnak (UC Berkeley): "Imbibing the Spirit of the East: Bal'mont's
Voyage to Japan"



Heekyoung Cho (U of Washington): "Aspirations for a New Literature:
Radicalizing Russian Literature in Colonial Korea"



Discussants: Charles Armstrong (Columbia), Catharine Nepomnyashchy
(Columbia)



3:45-4:00pm: BREAK



4:00-5:45pm *PANEL 4: SELF-FASHIONING ACROSS THE RUSSIAN-CHINESE BORDER*



Chair: Rebecca Stanton (Columbia)



Roy Chan (University of Oregon): "The Sovereignty of Memory: Experiential
Genres, Nonsynchronous History, and Intelligentsia Self-Fashioning in
Alexander Herzen and Ba Jin"



Zhen Zhang (UC Davis): "Socialist Intellectuals in Postsocialist China:
Deep Subjectivity in Wang Meng's *Bolshevik Salute* and Ba Jin's *Random
Thoughts*"



Edward Tyerman (Columbia): "Sino-Soviet Confessions: Sergei Tret'iakov,
"Den Shi-khua" and Biographical Allegory"



Elizabeth McGuire (San Francisco State University): "The Sino-Soviet
Romance and Athletics"



Discussant: Rebecca Karl (NYU)





*The  Harriman Institute, the University Seminar on Slavic History &
Culture, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute generously provided
support for this conference.*

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