"Reframing Russian Modernism," UW-Madison, May 21-22, 2014

[Irina Shevelenko]

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UW - Madison 

with the support of the William F. Vilas Trust

PRESENTS

An International Workshop

Reframing Russian Modernism

309 Pyle Center,

702 Langdon Street, Madison

May 21-22, 2014

 

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21

 

Morning Session: 9 AM - 11:45 AM

 

Irina Shevelenko (U of Wisconsin - Madison), Opening Remarks, 9 - 9:15 AM

 

Panel 1: Shifting Perspectives: Terminology, Chronology, Hierarchy (Chair:
Irina Shevelenko)

 

Leonid Livak (U of Toronto), "Naming the Field: The Russian Biography of the
Term 'Modernism'"

Gennadii Obatnin (U of Helsinki), "Towards the Study of 'Lesser Poets' in
Russian Modernism"

Coffee Break, 10:45 - 11 AM

Mark Lipovetsky (U of Colorado), "Dmitrii Prigov between Avant-Garde and
Postmodernism: Towards a Definition of Russian Modernism's Borders"

Lunch Break, 11:45 AM - 1 PM

 

Afternoon Session: 1 PM - 6 PM

 

Panel 2: Crossing Cultures and Media: Issues in Modernist Poetics (Chair:
Leonid Livak)

 

Andrew Reynolds (U of Wisconsin - Madison), "Gathering Live Traditions from
the Air: The Allusive Theories and Practice of T. S. Eliot and Osip
Mandelstam"

Alexander Dolinin (U of Wisconsin - Madison), "Shakespeare and Mayakovsky in
Boris Pasternak's Themes and Variations"

Coffee Break, 2:30 - 2:45 AM

Daria Khitrova (U of Chicago), "The Case of the Dying Swan: On the Cinematic
Evolution of a Dance"

 

 

Panel 3: Society in Focus: Historical Imagination, Nationalism, Utopia
(Chair: Mark Lipovetsky)

 

Arkadii Bliumbaum (European University, St. Petersburg), "Russian Modernism
and the Topoi of Anti-Semitism: The Case of Alexander Blok"

Coffee Break, 4:15 - 4:30 AM

Michael Kunichika (NYU), "Forest Factories, Flying Machines, and Bast
Sandals: Boris Pil'niak's 'Russia in Flight' and the Poetics of
Non-synchrony"

Thomas Seifrid (U of Southern California), "Arranging the Absolute: On One
of Russian Modernism's Legacies in the Stalin Era"

 

 

THURSDAY, MAY 22

 

Morning Session: 9 AM - 12 NOON

 

Panel 4: Knowledge and Mind: Religion, Science, Spirituality (Chair: Thomas
Seifrid)

 

David Bethea (U of Wisconsin - Madison), "Darwin and Symbolist Thinking"

Martha Kelly (U of Missouri), "From Priests to Sinners: Religious Discourse
in Turn-of-the-Century Russian Journals" 

Coffee Break, 10:30 - 10:45 AM

Alexander Ogden (U of South Carolina), "Embodied Transformation: Yoga in
Russian Modernism"

 

General Discussion & Closing Remarks, 11:30 AM - 12 NOON

 


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