"'Pushkin and Homosexuality': An Understudied Fragment of the Pushkin Myth in Russia": ASEEES Panel

Wed Jan 8 06:06:16 UTC 2014

On this very list, back in March and April of 2006, there was a detailed and lively discussion of "Pushkin and Homosexuality" under the following subject headings:

Applied Psychoanalysis in Slavic Studies
Psychoanalysis and Russian Studies
Psychoanalysis and my Senior Thesis
Onegin Again
Onegin Again = Envy is not Lust
Onegin Again - All Dressed Up
Was Onegin a Metrosexual?
More Questions on Onegin
Onegin et al
This Onegin Thing

If we think about the current controversy about gay rights in Russia, it will be obvious why the theme of "Pushkin and Homosexuality" is "understudied" in Russia.

With friendly regards to the list,

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Emeritus Professor of Russian
University of California, Davis

http://Rancour-Laferriere.com

On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Evgenii Bershtein wrote:

Dear Colleagues,
I  would like to organize an ASEEES panel, provisionally named " 'Pushkin and Homosexuality': An Understudied Fragment of the Pushkin Myth in Russia". We have two papers so far: one on Yuri Lotman's unpublished "sketch of an essay" entitled "Pushkin and Homosexuality", and another (mine) on Sergei Eisenstein's extensive treatment of this theme in his (unpublished) diaries. As I see it,  the panel will  focus not so much on the historical Pushkin and his actual take on homosexuality but rather on interpretations that this theme received in Russian cultural texts – scholarly or non-scholarly. This panel topic has many potentially fascinating aspects,  e.g., the Pushkinist legend of the homosexual relationship between Heeckeren and d'Anthés, or  заговор  педерастов.  

If you would like to propose a paper, please email me off the list with a brief abstract.

Sincerely,

Evgenii Bershtein

Associate Professor of Russian
Reed College
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