a conference at ucla

[Olga Kagan]

        The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA,
in collaboration with the Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA,
and the Consortium for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
presents

                                                                                                                                                        A Symposium:
"Russia and the Russians through Russian Eyes"
                                                                                                        Saturday, February 1, 1997
                                                                                                                        6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Morning Session: 10-12  Historical Perspective

Moderator: Stephen Frank (UCLA)

Ronald Vroon (UCLA): Introductory Remarks

Boris Uspensky   (University of Naples):  Vosprijatie drevnerusskoj
istorii v biblejskoj perspektive   (The Perception of Old Russian
History from a Biblical Perspective)

V.V. Ivanov (UCLA):   The Russian Time-Space (Chronotope) and the
East-West Opposition in Russian  Consciousness

Alexander Ospovat (UCLA):  O nekotorykh printsipakh
natsional'no-gosudarstvennogo avtoopisanija v pervoj polovine XIX
veka.  (On Certain Principles of National State Auto-Descriptions in the
First Half of the Nineteenth Century)

Lunch 12-1:30

Afternoon Session: 1:30-3:30  From the Modern to the Contemporaneous

Moderator:  Ronald Vroon (UCLA)

Irina Gutkin (UCLA):  The Literary Origins of the Mythic "Russian Woman"

Sophia Bogatyreva ( independent scholar ): Slovo i deti: totalitarnaya
ideologiya v vospriyatii detej sovetskogo i postsovetskogo vremeni
(Literature and Children: Totalitarian Ideology in the Perception of
Children in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Period)

Marija Ossipova (UCLA/Institute of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Moscow)
Samosoznanie nositelej russkogo yazyka  za  predelami Rossii:
lingvistiheskie fakty.  (The Self-Consciousness of Native Russian
Speakers in the Diaspora: A Linguistic Perspective)

Genevra Gerhart (author):   Russian Geography as Part of  Language and
Its Study.

A round table  discussion:  3:45-5:00   The role of culture in the
curriculum:  language, literature, and civilization.

Moderator: Olga Kagan (UCLA)
Panelists:  Genevra Gerhart (author),   Gail Lenhoff (UCLA),  Marcus
Levitt  (USC),  Ron Vroon (UCLA),  Olga Yokoyama (UCLA),   Rebecca Wells
( UCSD)

For more information call Olga Kagan (310)825-2947 or e-mail:
okagan at humnet.ucla.edu