Announcement: Conceptualizing the Human in Slavic and Eurasian Culture, Princeton U, Oct. 18-19

[Emily Wang]

CONCEPTUALIZING THE HUMAN IN SLAVIC AND EURASIAN CULTURE
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Fri.-Sat., October 18-19
East Pyne 010

*All Panels, Keynote, and Roundtable will be held in East Pyne 010*

*FRIDAY October 18th*

Breakfast: 9:00 am

9:20 am: Brief welcome address

*First panel:* Soviet Humanism* (*9:30 am – 11:00 am)

Laura Brown, Pennsylvania State: “Stravinsky and the Sounds of Human
Emotion: A Musical Study of the Human Characteristics of the Puppet
Petrushka.”

Brian Droitcour, NYU: “Shakespeare for Stalin: Restaging Humanism with *Romeo
and Juliet*”

Pavel Khazanov, U Penn: “Pulling a Fast One on the World: Happiness,
Immortality and the Problem of Ethics in Andrei Platonov’s *Happy Moscow*”

Discussant: Robert Bird, U Chicago

- 30-minute Break  -

*Second panel:* Political Subjectivity (11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

Andru Chiorean, University of Nottingham: “Re-Writing the New Man: Censors
and Censorship in Stalinist Romania, 1948-1955”

Julian Gantt, CUNY Graduate Center: “Oil, Infrastructure, and Personhood in
Postwar Azerbaijan”

Philip Gleissner, Princeton: “Totalitarian Repression or Carnivalesque
Game?: Jiří Kratochvil’s Experience of the Czechoslovak Repressions in the
1950s”

Discussant: Serguei Oushakine, Princeton

- 1 ½-Hour Lunch Break  -

*Third Panel:* Personhood in Russian Thought (2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

Alexandre Gontchar, Harvard: “Language as a Tomb of Reification: The
Problem of the Human in Andrei Platonov’s *The Foundation Pit*”

Maya Larson, University of Oregon: “Why Does the Rusalka Have to Die?:
Gippius’ Critique of Necrotheology in *Sacred Blood*”

Keith Walmsley, University of St. Andrews: “The Human in the Writings of A.
F. Vel’tman”

Discussant: Randall Poole, College of St. Scholastica

- One-Hour Coffee Break -

Keynote: Mikhail Iampolski, NYU: 5:00 pm

Dinner: 6:30 pm

*SATURDAY October 19*

Breakfast: 9:00 am

*Fourth panel:* Humans in Space and Time (9:30 am – 11:00 am)

Ryan Allen, Cal State LA: “’Time Takes on the Flesh’ in Béla Tarr’s *Turin
Horse*”

Lidia Levkovitch, Rutgers: “The Zhungle Book: Place, Body and Language in
Iurii Buida’s Story Cycle *Zhungli*”

Matthew Mangold, Rutgers: “People and Place in Chekhov’s *Sakhalin Island*”

Discussant: Julie Buckler, Harvard

- 30-minute Break  -

*Fifth panel:* Humans and Other Animals (11:30 am –1:00 pm)

Geoff Cebula, Princeton: “’Mne zhalko chto ia ne zver”: Animals as Objects
of Sorrow and Longing in Oberiu Poetry”

Matthew Sutton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne: “The Wild Animal’s
Metamorphosis”

Abigail Weil, Harvard: “On the Origin of the Specious: Monkey Business with
Hašek and Kafka”

Discussant: Anindita Banerjee, Cornell

- One-Hour Lunch Break -

*Roundtable* (2:00 pm – 4:00 pm)

Moderator: Devin Fore, Princeton


Organized by Alisa Ballard, Emily Wang, and Denis Zhernokleyev, with the
graduate students of the Slavic Department.

Questions may be sent to: princeton.slavic.conference at gmail.com

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