Graduate Student Conference: Pushkin/Anti-Pushkin

[Tim West]

Dear colleagues,

Please note and distribute the following announcement for the impending
“Pushkin/Anti-Pushkin” Graduate Student Conference at Princeton University.
Papers will be made available in advance to presenters and discussants, and
panels will be exclusively devoted to discussion. Abstracts will be posted
shortly on the conference webpage:

http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/calendar/detail.php?ID=1911

For more information, please contact me at <twest at princeton.edu>.

Regards,
Tim West
Dept. of Slavic Lang. and Lit., Princeton University

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Graduate Student Conference: Pushkin/Anti-Pushkin 

April 17-18, 2009, Princeton University

Sponsored by the Council of the Humanities, the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, the Graduate School, the Program in Russian and
Eurasian Studies.

For nearly two centuries, Pushkin’s legacy has been appropriated to serve
myriad social, political and artistic purposes by admirers and critics eager
to recast the poet in their own image. This interdisciplinary conference
examines the evolution of his myth and explores the humanization and
demonization of Pushkin in the hope of understanding the formative role he
has played in fields as diverse as theater, music, plastic arts, film,
history, politics and, of course, literature. 

All events in East Pyne 245. 

Friday: 

6:30-8:00 pm panel: Pushkin and Contemporary Russian Literature (discussant:
Michael Wachtel, Princeton University)

Saturday:

10:30-12:00 panel: New Perspectives on Pushkin (discussant: William Mills
Todd III, Harvard University)
1:00-2:30 panel: Musical Settings of Pushkin (discussant: Boris Gasparov,
Columbia University)
3:00-4:30 panel: The Modernist Pushkin (discussant: Alexandra Smith,
University of Edinburgh)

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