1998 AATSEEL-WI Conference

[Benjamin Rifkin]

1998 AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference

Friday, April 24, 1998

A Free and Public Lecture

"Russian Writers and
the Slippages of History"

by Donald Fanger,
Harry Levin Professor of Russian Literature,
Harvard University

4:00 pm
6189 Helen C. White Hall
Madison, WI

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The conference resumes on

Saturday, April 25, 1998

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Lower Lounge, Lowell Hall, 610 Langdon St., Madison, WI.



9:00 - 9:15 am:  Coffee and Tea

PANEL I

9:15 - 10:15 am:  19th and Pre-19th Century Slavic Literatures

Chair:  Galina Patterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:  Alexandra Walter, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Pushkin's Poems of the Polish Uprising and the Voice (Glas) of the Poet,
Megan Dixon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Erasing the Pater Familias:  A Bloomian Analysis of Vladimir Odoevskij's
"Sebastian Bach," Cynthia Ramsey, University of Wisconsin-Madison

An Old Portrait, a New Original:  Copyists in Gogol's "The Overcoat" and
Khvoshchinskaya's The Boarding School Girl, Karen Rosneck, University of
Wisconsin-Madison

PANEL II

10:30 - 11:45:  New Perspectives on Dostoevsky

Chair:  Laura Little, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:  Ann Komaromi, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dostoevsky on the Nature of Temptation, Evgeniia V. Cherkasova, Pennsylvania
State University

Dostoevsky and Responsibility:  The Transformation of a Moral Category, Gary
Rosenshield, University of Wisconsin-Madison

New Philosophy from the Underground:  Rozewicz's Dialogue with Dostoevsky in
"Nowa szkola filozoficzna," Anke Ziolkowska, Pennsylvania State University

11:45 am  - 1:15 pm     :  Lunch Break

1:15 - 1:30 pm:  Coffee and Tea

PANEL III

1:30 - 2:30 pm:  20th Century Slavic Literatures

Chair:  Megan Dixon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:  Wendy Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Maiakovskii's Death-Creation, Galina Patterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Goriachii shelest leta":  The Image of Nature in the Poetry of Akhmatova,
Jennifer Ryan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lowell's Pasternak:  Imitations of Mortality, Christopher J. Syrnyk,
University of Oregon

2:30 - 2:45 pm          Coffee and Tea

PANEL IV

2:45 -  3:30 pm:  Deconstructing Slavic Literatures

Chair:  Clint Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:  Krista Maxwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Aporia of Temporal Existence in Sep Szarzynski's Poetry, Ann Komaromi,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Velimir Khlebnikov:  Deconstructionist Tendencies in Zhuravl', Susan White,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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The annual AATSEEL-Wisconsin conference is moving from the spring semester
to the fall semester starting fall '98.  Abstracts are due June 1, 1998 for
the October 1998 conference.  For more information, contact Professors
Halina Filipowicz or Benjamin Rifkin  at the Department of Slavic Languages,
UW-Madison, 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706  USA.
E-mail inquiries to hfilipow at facstaff.wisc.edu OR brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu.

Mark your calendars now:
The '98-'99 AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference
will be held on Saturday, October 3, 1998 in
Lowell Hall, 610 Langdon St., Madison, Wisconsin.



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Benjamin Rifkin

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706  USA

voice:  608/262-1623
fax:  608/265-2814
e-mail:  brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu

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