Conference on Russian Pornpography

[Marcus C. Levitt]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
   I am writing to invite you to attend the Conference on Russian
Pornography, which will be held at the University of  Southern
Calfornia on May 22-24.  I include the conference program and
schedule of panels below.  The conference is free and open to the
public; papers will be given in Russina nd English.
     The conference will take place in Grace Salvatori Hall, 106, on
the USC campus.  There is university parking ($6) next to the
building, and metered paring nearby on Vermont Avenue (free on
Sunday).
    You are encouraged to bring copies of your recent publications
and offprints to display and distribute at the conference.  I will
have a table for these materials set up outide the conference
auditorium for this purpose.

Housing at USC for the Conference

     Rooms are available for conference visitors in Fluor Tower, a
modern campus residence. For the three nights of the conference, May
 22-23-24, the cost for a single room is $143.64, and $92.34 for a
 double (shared) room (that is,  $47.88 per night for a single, $30.78
 for a double, per night, per person). Prices cited here are complete,
 and include the cost of linens and tax.  These rooms are part of
 four-room suites; each suite has its own private bathroom.  All
buildings at USC are non-smoking.  Use of USC's pool and gym
facilities are also available for conference guests ($10/day or $15
/week).
     If you would like to reserve a room, please send me a check for
one night's stay (i.e., $30.78 for a shared  room, $47.88 for a
single), made out to "The University of Southern California"
(indicate Conference on Russian Pornography on the check too, please)
by April 14, 1998.
    Let me know if you have any other questions at this point, and
how I can facilitate your visit.

Sincerely yours,
Marcus Levitt
Assoc. Professor, Conference Organizer
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353
(213) 740-2740

Program: Conference on Russian Pornography

FRIDAY MAY 22

Keynote Address, 1 p.m.

Helena Goscilo, University of Pittsburgh "Porn on the Cob: Some Hard
Core Issues"

Panel: Pornography Before Pornography                           2-4:30 p.m.

Yelena Minyonok and Sergei Minyonok, Instiutute of World Literature,
Moscow, "The Eroticism of Summer Calendar Rituals" (includes a video)

Andrei Toporkov, Institute of World Literature, Moscow, "The Sexual
Theme in Russian Incantations"

Natalia Pushkareva, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow,
"The Russian Lubok: Genesis of Pornography or Reflection of Peasant
Views of Intimacy?"

Dianne Farrell, Moorehead State University, "The Bawdy Lubok: Sexual
and Scatological Humor in 18th-Century Popular Prints"

Eve Levin, History, Ohio State - discussant

Reception at the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, USC,  5-7 p.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 23

Panel: Porn in the Age of Enlightenment, 8-9:45 a.m

Jim Rice, University of Oregon, "Kirsha's Bawdy Again, and Again (The
Song of Kirsha Danilov No 67)"

Manfred Schruba, Westfalisches Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, "K
specifike barkoviany na fone francuzskoj pornografii"

Marcus C. Levitt, USC, "Barkoviana: The English Connection"

John Alexander, University of Kansas, "Catherine the Great as Porn
Queen"

Ronald Vroon, UCLA - discussant


Panel: Porn and the Classics / Porn Classics,   10:00 - 12 p.m.

Laura Wilhelm (Independent Scholar), "Pornography and the Politics of
Oppression in the Russian Aesopian Tradition"

Oleg Proskurin, Moscow State Pedagogical University, "Alexander
Pushkin's Hidden Bawdy"

Amy Mandelker, CUNY, "The Sacred and the Profane: Victorianism,
Pornography, and Tolstoy's Aesthetics"

Edward Kasinec, New York Public Library, "Konstantin Somov As
Illustrator of the Erotic"

Otto Boele, University of Groenigen, "The Pornographic Roman a These
(Artsybashev's Sanin)."

Lunch break 12- 1 p.m

Panel: Psychopathia Sexualis, 1- 3 p.m.

Daniel Rancour-Laferierre, UC Davis "Tolstoy, Misogyny, and
Pornography:  The Kreuzer Sonata"

Alexander Etkind, European University, St. Petersburg / Woodrow Wilson
Center.  "Ice, Fur and Trout: Sacher-Masoch in Russia."

Evgenii Bershtein, University of California, Berkeley, "Psychopathia
Sexualis as Erotic Narrative in Fin-de-Siecle Russia."

Frances Bernstein, Johns Hopkins University , "Doctors and the Problem
of 'Sexy Science' in the 1920s"


Panel: Rozanov and Philosophical Porn, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.


Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley, "Rozanov and
Krafft-Ebing: Degeneracy, Sex, Pornography."

Vera Proskurina, Cornell University "V. V. Rozanov as the Phallus of
Russian Literature"

Andrei Arkhipov and Hilary Teplitz, Stanford University, "Vasilii
Rozanov and Pornography: The "Corpse Cult""


SUNDAY, May 24

Breakfast,      9:15-10:30 a.m.

Panel: Pornograhy and Law / Discipline and Punish, 10:30- 12

Christine Tomei, Columbia University "Practically Pornography:
Women's Artistic Appropriation of the Body in Fin-de-Siecle Russia"

Igor Kon, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology,  Moscow,
"Erotica and Pornography in Contemporary Russian Legal and Political
Debates"

Paul W. Goldschmidt, University of Wisconsin, Platteville "Article
242:  Past, Present, and Future"

Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley - discussant

Lunch break                     12- 1 p.m.

Panel: Porn in Russia Today             1-3 p.m.

Karen Ryan-Hayes, University of Virginia, "Misreading Misogyny: The
Allegorical Functions of Russian Porn"

Eliot Borenstein,  New York University  "Pin Me Up, Pin Me Down:  The
Rhetoric of Masculinity in Post-Soviet Heterosexual Pornography"

Luc Beaudoin, University of Denver, "The Masculine Utopia in
[Contemporary] Russian Pornography"

Emil Draitser, Hunter College, "Contemporary Russian Jokelore as
Pornography"

Eugene Sadovoy, University of Southern California, "The Pornography of
Experience: Contemporary Russian Art"

Discussant - Lesley Rimmel, Stanford University

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