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

Thu Feb 27 17:58:20 UTC 2014

Dear all,

A reminder that our Russia in East Asia conference at Columbia begins *today
(Thursday 27 February) *at *6pm *in *1501 IAB:*

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

The conference continues *tomorrow, Friday 28 February, *with a full day of
panels from 9am-6pm in *1512 IAB.*

The full program is below. We hope you will be able to join us!

Edward Tyerman (Slavic, ICLS - ejt2115 at columbia.edu)

*RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA:*

*IMAGINATION, EXCHANGE, TRAVEL, TRANSLATION*

*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"*

7:15pm: Reception

*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 (Independent Scholar): "JUMP! The Personal, Professional
& Political Life of Yura Huang Jian, Sino-Soviet Sportsman and
Self-Declared Romantic"

Discussant: Rebecca Karl (NYU)

6pm: Wine and cheese reception

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