2011 ASEEES event: Literature and Empire in Russian and the Soviet Union

[Edyta Bojanowska]

Dear Colleagues,

We invite all scholars interested in the topic of empire in Russian 
culture to a series of four interconnected panels on "*LITERATURE AND 
EMPIRE IN RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION."* The panels will take place at 
the ASEEES Conference in Washington D.C. in /BLUE ROOM PRE-FUNCTION/.

             PANEL 4:03:*Peripheral Identities *(Friday 11/18, 8-9:45 a.m.)
Chair: Anne Lounsbery, New York University
1.Catherine O'Neil, United States Naval Academy
"Alexander Chavchavadze and Alexander Griboedov: the Dilemmas of 
Georgian Nationalism in the Russian Empire."
2.Harsha Ram, University of California (Berkeley)
"Imagined Community: The Georgian Intelligentsia between Nation and Empire."
3.Kathryn Schild, Tulane University
"Pushkin in the Periphery: The 1937 Jubilee as a Survival Strategy for 
Soviet Azerbaijani Writers"
Discussants: Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan
Olga Maiorova, University of Michigan

  PANEL 5:03: *Lyric Geographies *(Friday, 11/18, 10-11:45 a.m.)
Chair: Edyta Bojanowska, Rutgers University
1.Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University
"Tracking Modernism with the Tools of Empire: The Trans-Siberian 
Railroad and the Russian Lyric Imagination"
2.Katharine Holt, Columbia University
"Nikolai Tikhonov and Central Asia: Imperial Poetics of the Serapion 
'SovietKipling'"
3.Sanna Turoma, University of Helsinki, Finland
/"Imperiia/ Re/constructed: Imaginary Geographies in the 1960s Soviet 
Poetry and Prose"
Discussant: Irina Shevelenko, University of Wisconsin

  PANEL 6:03: *Imperial Modernities *(Friday, 11/18, 2-3:45 p.m.)
Chair: Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University
1.Anne Dwyer, Pomona College
"How to Be Traveler? Viktor Shklovsky's Imperial Self-Fashioning after 
/A Sentimental Journey/"
2.Tatiana Filimonova, Northwestern University
"Boris Pilniak's Eurasian Empire"
3.Jeffrey Brooks, The John Hopkins University
"At Home and Away from Home: Soviet Fiction and Empire in the 1920s and 30s"
Discussant: Harsha Ram, University of California (Berkeley)

PANEL 9:03: *Colonial Models *(Saturday, 11/19, 10-11:45 a.m.)
Chair: Kathryn Schild, Tulane University
1.Anna Aydinyan, Yale University
"Griboedov's Project of the Russian Transcaucasian Company and the 
Western European Debates on Colonial Management"
2.Edyta Bojanowska, Rutgers University
"Chekhov's /The Duel/, or How to Colonize Responsibly"
3.Edith W. Clowes, University of Kansas
"Pelevin's Satires of Economic Colonialism in the Global Marketplace"
Discussant: Vitaly Chernetsky, Miami University

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Edyta Bojanowska
Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Dept. of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
Rutgers University, 195 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, ph: (732)932-7201, fax: (732) 932-1111
http://german.rutgers.edu/faculty/profiles/bojanowska.htm


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