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Conference Schedule
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 and Ethics in Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow”
Chair: Victoria Juharyan, Princeton
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: Censorship and Censors in Postwar Romania, 1948-1955”
Julian Gantt, CUNY Graduate Center: “Oil, Infrastructure, and Personhood in Postwar Azerbaijan”
Philip Gleissner, Princeton: “Jiří Kratochvil’s Fictionalized 1950s: Subjective Re-Appropriation of History and the Construction of Stories”
Chair: Cate Reilly, Princeton
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 Means of Production: The Adventures of Sensuous Particular in the Land of the Universal”
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 Conceptualization of the Human in the Works of Aleksandr Vel’tman”
Chair: David Hock, Princeton
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 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: “Between Literature and Medicine: Observing People and Place in Sakhalin Island”
Chair: Natalia Klimova, Princeton
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’: ‘Other Animals’ in Oberiu Poetry”
Matthew Sutton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: “The Wild Animal’s Metamorphosis”
Abigail Weil, Harvard: “On the Origin of the Specious: Monkey Business with Hašek and Kafka”
Chair: Elizabeth Stern, Princeton
Discussant: Anindita Banerjee, Cornell
– One-Hour Lunch Break –
Roundtable (2:00 pm – 4:00 pm)
Moderator: Devin Fore, Princeton
Conceptualizing the Human in Slavic and Eurasian Culture 