Registration open: 'Writing and Reading Russian Biography in the 19th and 20th centuries', Oxford, 14-16 March 2014

Wed Jan 15 13:38:12 UTC 2014

Dear all,

The international conference, 'Writing and Reading Russian Biography in the
19th and 20th centuries', to be held at University College, Oxford, 14-16
March, is now open for registration. Registration is essential for anyone
wanting to attend any of the conference events.

Keynote speaker: Jochen Hellbeck.

Other speakers: Andrei Zorin, Nathaniel Knight, Duccio Colombo, Tania
Voronina, Page Herrlinger, Ludmilla A. Trigos, Carol Ueland, Angela
Brintlinger, Marsha Siefert, Polly Jones, Ben Eklof, Lynne Hartnett, Ivan
Peshkov, Jon Stone, Galina Rylkova, Sasha Smith, Lina Bernstein, Julie
Curtis, Denis Sdvizkov, Stephen M. Norris, Anatoly Pinsky, Andrea Gullotta,
Philip Bullock, Margarita Vaysman, Vicky Davis, Dan Healey.

Funded by: the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; Overbrook research
fund, University College Oxford; CEELBAS

Registration is via the link below, by end of February. Places are limited
and allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Registration store:
http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=59&prodid=225

Conference webpage (with complete program; program also pasted below):
http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/univ-events/conference-writing-and-reading-russian-biography-19th-and-20th-centuries

Friday 14 March 2014

4:30pm
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

5:00-6:30
WELCOME
Polly Jones (Oxford)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jochen Hellbeck (Rutgers): Biographical Clarifications and Reckonings:
Soviet Survivors of Nazi Occupation and Their Audiences (1943-1945)

Saturday 15 March 2014

9:00-11:00
PANEL 1. Biographical genres and narrative forms
Discussant: Samantha Sherry (Oxford)

Andrei Zorin (Oxford), Radishchev's "The Life of Fyodor Ushakov” and the
early period of Russian biographical art.
Nathaniel Knight (Seton Hall University), Biography as Archive:  The Genre
of Scholarly Biography in Pre-revolutionary Russia
Duccio Colombo (University of Palermo), Evil Deeds and Evil Fiction:
Russian Criminal Biography from Van'ka Kain to Len'ka Panteleev
Tatiana Voronina (EUSPb), Making Socialist Realist stories: the Leningrad
Blockade in Soviet memories and reminiscences

11:00
COFFEE

11:15-1:15
PANEL 2. Changing Biographies over time
Discussant: Simon Dixon (UCL-SSEES)

Page Herrlinger (Bowdoin), Not a Saint’s Life:  Biographical Sketches of
the Lay Preacher and Healer, Brother Ioann Churikov, 1910-1963
Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland (Drew), Lives of Remarkable People as a
Cultural Phenomenon
Angela Brintlinger (Ohio State), Pushkin 'Threefold' in the Pages of ZhZL
Marsha Siefert (CEU), From Biographical Novel to Biographical Film: “The
Lonely Life” of Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky

2:00-4:00
PANEL 3. Revolutionary lives
Discussant: Susan Morrissey (UCL-SSEES)

Ben Eklof (Indiana University) and Tatiana Saburova (Omsk State Pedagogical
University), О далёком прошлом. Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin and the
Generational Memory of the Revolutionaries of the 1870s
Lynne Hartnett (Villanova University), Literary Legitimacy:  Justifying a
Radical Life in a Revolutionary Age through Autobiography
Polly Jones (Oxford), Reimagining Revolutionary Heroism in Late Socialist
Biographies
Ivan Peshkov (Poznan University), The Grammar of Revolutionary Flame in the
Fiery Revolutionaries biographical series. The Post-Stalinist Usable Past
and Russian-Oriented Cosmopolitanism in the Late Soviet Union

4:00
COFFEE

4:15-5:45
PANEL 4. Literary biography from the imperial to the post-Soviet era
Discussant: Julie Curtis (Oxford)

Jonathan Stone (Franklin & Marshall College), Symbolist Works and Symbolist
Lives: Ellis and the Return of Russkie simvolisty
Galina Rylkova (University of Florida), Living with Tolstoy and Dying with
Chekhov: Ivan Bunin’s Liberation of Tolstoy (1937) and About Chekhov (1953)
As Two Modes of Auto/Biography Writing
Alexandra Smith (University of Edinburgh), Post-Soviet Biographies of
Russian Major 20th-c. Poets.

6:00-7:15
ROUNDTABLE. Writing biographies of Russians

Julie Curtis (Oxford); Lynne Hartnett (Villanova); Lina Bernstein (Franklin
and Marshall); Angela Brintlinger (OSU)

Sunday March 16

9:00
COFFEE

9:15-11:15
PANEL 5. Auto/biography
Discussant: Catriona Kelly (Oxford)

Denis Sdvizkov (German Historical Institute Moscow), The diary of a village
priest. (Auto)biographies of clerics in Russia in the first half of the
nineteenth century (1780-1860)
Stephen M. Norris (Miami University, Ohio), Son of the Soviet Century:
 Boris Efimov and Soviet Auto/Biography
Anatoly Pinsky (EUSPb), The Personal and the Public after Stalin:  The
Diaries of Aleksandr Tvardovskii
Andrea Gullotta (University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice), V teni Gogolya:
Sinyavsky’s Path to the Self through Biography

11:15
COFFEE AND PASTRIES

11:40-1:30
PANEL 6. Reading, reception and the uses of biography
Discussant: Steve Smith (Oxford)

Philip Bullock (Oxford), Biography as a Category of Reception: Russian
Music in Britain, 1890-1914
Margarita Vaysman (Oxford), Nikolenka’s Childhood: Nikolay Chernyshevsky in
Children’s Literature
Vicky Davis (UCL-SSEES), The rise and fall of Malaia zemlia: The role of
Brezhnev's biography in the construction and deconstruction of the war myth
in Novorossiisk
Dan Healey (Oxford),“Non-traditional” lives: the dilemmas of queering
Russian biography

1:30-1:45 (approx.)
SUMMING UP

-- 
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300185126

Dr Polly Jones
Schrecker-Barbour Fellow in Russian
University College
Oxford
OX1 4BH
tel.: 01865 276785
http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/univ-people/dr-polly-jones

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