"Russian Eyes" Symposium

[Olga Kagan]

Dear SEELANGERS, I'm posting the information again, because It's been
brought to my attention that I didn't include the date or the room in
the first posting.  Sorry about it. OK

Sponsored by 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

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

Session 2.   From the Modern to the Contemporaneous
1:30- 3:30
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 (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 (independent scholar, author):   Russian Geography as
Part of  Language and Its Study.

A Roundtable  Discussion:  The Role of Culture in
the Curriculum:  Language, Literature, and Civilization
3:45-5:00
Moderator: Olga Kagan (UCLA)
Panelists:  Michael Heim (UCLA), Genevra Gerhart (author),   Gail
Lenhoff (UCLA),  Marcus  Levitt  (USC),  Ron Vroon (UCLA),  Olga
Yokoyama (UCLA),   Rebecca Wells ( UCSD)