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

[Anna Frajlich-Zajac]

Dear Colleagues,

there is one more somewhat related panel:

  G-44, “Russian Culture and the Authority of the Classical  
Tradition”, has been scheduled for Session  8, 11/19/2011 at 8:00  
a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
·         Organizer:  Judith Kalb (jkalb at sc.edu)

·         Chair:  Anna Frajlich-Zajac (af38 at columbia.edu)

·         Presenter(s) and their paper:
Judith Kalb (jkalb at sc.edu), “Defining Classical Authority in Fin-de- 
siecle Russia”
Francoise Rosset (frosset at wheatonma.edu), “Re-membering Nike:  
Gumilev's "Samofrakiiskaia Pobeda”
Tom Dolack (dolack_thomas at wheatoncollege.edu), “Psyche, Antigone and  
Eurydice: Culture, Ethics and Renewal in Mandelstam”
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·         Discussant(s):
Rebecca Pyatkevich (pyatkevi at uwm.edu)
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_______________________________
Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia  University
704 Hamilton Hall, MC 2840
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Tel.  212-854-4850
Fax: 212-854-5009
http://www.annafrajlich.com/





On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Edyta Bojanowska wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
>
> 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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