Fifth Annual Spring Slavic Symposium, THE USES OF THE PAST: April 25, 2008

[Julia Verkholantsev]

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of
Pennsylvania

cordially invites you to

the Fifth Annual Spring Slavic Symposium

This year’s theme is THE USES OF THE PAST

When: FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008
Where: University of Pennsylvania, Max Kade Center (3401 Walnut St, Room
329A)

For more information please visit our website at
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/events/slavic_symposium/slavic_symposium_index.htm

or contact Julia Verkholantsev at juliaver at sas.upenn.edu

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

10:00 am – 12:00 pm, SESSION I

Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University)
"Renegotiating the Past: Hadiach Agreement (1658) in the History of the
Rus"

Olenka Z. Pevny (University of Richmond)
"Medieval Monuments and the Building of National Identity in Ukraine"

Edward L. Keenan (Harvard University)
"The Uses of the Past: the East Slavic Case"

Discussant: Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)

1:30 – 3:30 pm, SESSION II

Donald Ostrowski (Harvard University)
"The Shifting Present and Written Images of the Mongols"

Cherie Woodworth (Yale University)
"Defective Narratives and the Mother-in-Law Problem or History and Genealogy:
Personal and Political in 15th-Century Muscovy"

Kevin M. F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania)
"Allegory’s Half-life: The Specter of Stalin’s Ivan in Contemporary Russia"

Discussant: Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania)

4:00 – 6:00 pm, SESSION III

Stephen M. Norris (Miami University)
"Terrorism Then and Now: Karen Shakhnazarov’s Rider Called Death (2003)
and the Contemporary Historical Film"

Kathleen E. Smith (Georgetown University and George Washington University)
"Spinning the Secret Speech: Propagandists and the Stalinist Past in 1956"

Seguei A. Oushakine (Princeton University)
"A Confused Story of Confusion: Narrating History in Russian War Songs"

Discussant: Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)

6:00 – 7:00 pm, RECEPTION


-- 
Julia Verkholantsev
Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Pennsylvania
745 Williams Hall
255 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/

Tel: 215-898-8649
Fax: 215-573-7794

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