Middlebury Sympoisum

[ILYA VINITSKY]

Dear SEELANGERS,

In conjunction with the closing of the Russian School at Norwich
University, the annual Literary Symposium sponsored in the past by
Norwich University and its Russian School has moved to the Middlebury
Russian School.

This year the 2001 Literary Symposium will be held July 20-21 at the
Russian School of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont.  We
invite all interested Slavists to join us!

The Symposium will begin on Friday, July 20 in the evening at the
Middlebury Center for the Arts with a lecture by Lev Loseff of
Dartmouth College "Nachalo veka kak kul'turnyi fenomen" and a concert
by Russian pianist Tatyana Yampolskaia.  The symposium will continue
the next day with the following papers at the Middlebury College
Geonomics Building:

9:00    Ilya Vinitsky (University of Pittsburgh). "Stoletiia vetkhago
naslednik": nachalo XIX veka v russkoi  predromanticheskoi poezii.

9:30    Nina Perlina (Indiana University). O nauke, kotoraia poteriala svoe
nazvanie.

10:00 - 10:15 break

10:15   Sergey Davydov (Middlebury College). Zheltaia nechist'.

10:45   Jennifer Tishler (Dartmouth College). "Poema o nachale veka"  Anny
        Akhmatovoi.

11:15   Karen Evans-Romaine (University of Ohio, Athens). Nachalo veka -
nachalo muzyki: ob istochnikakh         "Materi i muzyki" Mariny Tsvetaevoi.

11:45   break for lunch

noon to 1 lunch

1:00    Juilia Friedman (Brown University). Ob optimisticheskom nigilizme,
        pessimisticheskom demonizme i natsional'nom voprose: vospriiatie fovizma i
kubizma v Rossii nachala        XX veka.

1:30    Galina Aksenova, Russian School (Russian Summer School, Middlebury
College).

2:00    Nadya Peterson (CUNY-Hunter). Virtual'noe bytie i konets vremeni v
        "Pokolenii P" Pelevina.

2:30    Gerald McCausland (University of Pittsburgh). Vozmozhna li russkaia
identichnost' v XXI veke?

3:00 - 3:15 break

3:15    Mikhail Epstein (Emory). Nachalo veka kak tip mirovozzreniia. Ot
        avangarda k proteizmu.

3:45    Aleksandr Genis (Svoboda). 2001: surprizy globalizatsii.

4:15    Boris Paramonov (Svoboda). Dva nachala - odin konets.


break for dinner


5:00 to 6 pm dinner


6:30 movie - Khrustalev, mashinu!  (in Bicentennial Hall)

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Costs associated with transportation to Middlebury, housing, and
meals will have to be born by the guests themselves.  Housing is NOT
available on the campus itself, but there are lovely inns and
inexpensive motels in the area.  Please note that all papers will be
given in Russian, the exclusive language of the Symposium.   For more
information, contact Ilya Vinitsky at ilv1+ at pitt.edu, the symposium
coordinator.

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