Perspectives on 18th-century Russia - A symposium - April 4-5, 2014

[Bella Grigoryan]

PERSPECTIVES ON EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA 
A symposium
Yale University
April 4-5, 2014

Friday, April 4, 4-5:30 PM
211 Hall of Graduate Studies

Keynote Address “Senile Paedophilia in Cultural-Historical Perspective: Betskoy, Glafira Alymova and Catherine the Great” 
Andrei Zorin (Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford)

Saturday, April 5
208 Whitney Humanities Center

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Session 1. The Rhetoric of Power: Autocracy and Empire

Paul Bushkovitch (History, Yale)
“European Political Theory in Peter’s Time: Feofan Prokopovitch”

Tatiana Smoliarova (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia)
“‘Islands’: Ekphrasis and the Ode in the 1740s”

Marcus Levitt (Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC)
“On Catherine’s Greatness”  

1PM-3PM
Session 2. Discourses of Identity and Selfhood

Gary Marker (History, SUNY, Stony Brook) 
“Feofan Prokopovich and the Woman Question” 

Bella Grigoryan (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale) 
“Novikov’s Readers”

Irina Reyfman (Slavic Languages and Literatures,  Columbia)
“To Serve or to Write? The Self-Presentation Dilemma of Nobles Writing in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia” 

3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Session 3. Periodization and the Long Eighteenth Century

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter (History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
“Toward a Definition of the Russian Enlightenment”

Andrew Kahn (Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford) 
“Russian Literature Between Classicism and Romanticism: Poetry, Feeling, and Subjectivity”

Luba Golburt  (Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC, Berkeley) 
“The Eighteenth Century and ‘Deep Time’: Late Eighteenth-Century Historical Lyric and the Turn Away from Ruler-Centered Periodization” 

This symposium is open to all and is sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the Macmillan Center, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale. 

For additional information, please contact Bella Grigoryan (bella.grigoryan at yale.edu)

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