aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, March 31, Barnard (fwd)

[M T Znayenko <znayenko@andromeda.rutgers.edu>]

Thirtieth Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference
Columbia University, Barnard College
March 31, 2007

Barnard Hall
  Barnard College
117th St. and Broadway
closest metro stop 116th and Broadway
New York City


Registration  8:00-9:00 a.m.

Session I   9:00 -10:20 a.m.
Twentieth-Century Russian Prose I (Room 406)
Chair:  Mary Theis (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant:  Elizabeth Beaujour (Hunter College)

Reining in the Aphorism:  Practicing Literary Criticism
through Konstantin Nikolaevich Leont'ev's V svoem kraiu
Thomas J. Kitson (Columbia University)

Regressing Ad Infinitum:  Apocalypse and Negative Infinity in Bely's
Petersburg
Jeanne-Marie Jackson (Yale University)

Guro's Rewriting of the Russian Folktale "The Feather of Finist, The Bright
Falcon"
Jamie Bennett (Columbia University)

Economics and Politics (Room 404)
Chair: Janet Johnson (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Discussant: Aleksandra Sznajder (Columbia University)

Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern European Countries
Susan Glanz (St. John's University)

Learning Moderation:  The Parliament as Teacher in Post-Communist Russia
Sharon Werning Rivera (Hamilton College)

Roundtable Discussion: "Povest' vremennykh let" (Room 405)
David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
Francis Butler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Inés Garcia de la Puente (Complutense University of Madrid)
Donald Ostrowski (Harvard University)
Alan Timberlake (University of California at Berkeley/Columbia University)

East European Literature and National Identity (Room 407)
Chair:  Chris Harwood (Columbia University)
Discussant:  David Goldfarb (Columbia University)

Fourth Partition
Thomas Starky (Columbia University)

Language Choice and the Notion of National Literature in Post-Soviet
Ukraine:
The Case of Andrey Kurkov
Maria G. Rewakowicz (Shevchenko Scientific Society)

Decadent Czechs
Kirsten Lodge (Harriman Institute)

Session II  10:30a.m. -11:50 a.m.

History, Memory and Identity:  Yugoslav Prose (Room 406)
Chair:  Radmila Gorup (Columbia University)
Discussant:  Marijeta Bozovic (Columbia University)

The Common Destiny of Danilo Kis's Characters
Heather Higgins (Columbia University)
Albahari and the Island
Natalka Burian (Columbia University)

Dreaming of Yugoslavia in The Bosnian Chronicle
Jovana Babovic (New York University)

Twentieth-Century Russian Poets (Room 404)
Chair/Discussant:  Mary Theis (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania)

Mandelstam Reconsiders His Roots:
Old Belief and New Psychological Space in "Fourth Prose"
Don Loewen (SUNY- Binghamton University)

The Lowest Heaven:  Marina Tsvetaeva's Writing to Dead Poets
Sibelan Forrester (Swarthmore College)

The Poet of Fire:  Alexandr Scriabin's Synaesthetic Strivings and the Silver
Age Poets
Polina Dimova (Columbia University)

Psychological Depravity in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (Room 405)
Chair:  Barbara Allen (La Salle University)
Discussant:  Robert L. Belnap (Columbia University)

People of Guilt versus People of Shame in Ostrovsky's Dramas
Olga Muratova (Jay College of Criminal Justice)

Tracing Peversity in Poe and Dostoevsky
Keith Mikos (University of Minnesota)

Davai, Katya, zavtrakat':  Human Parasitism in Chekhov's "Skuchnaya
Istoriya"
Anastassiya Andrianova (The CUNY Graduate Center)

Heritage, Language, and Identity (Room 407)
Chair:  Beatrice Farnsworth (Wells College)
Discussant:  Antonina Berezovenko (Columbia University)

Ethnic and Cultural Self-Identification among Russian Heritage Learners
Marina Rojavin (Temple University)

Reverse Culture Shock:
Returning Home from Russia Can Be As Difficult As Arriving There
Jill Neuendorf (Bryn Mawr College)

Miraculous Multiplications and Inflexible Simplifications:
Language and Ethnic Identification Among Speakers of
Croato-Serbian/Serbo-Croatian
Sreca Perunovic (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)

Lunch and Business Meeting  12:00 - 1:20 p.m.

Keynote Address   1:20-2:00  p.m.

Catherine the Great and the Art of Collecting
Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)



Session III 2:15-3:30 p.m.

Religion and the Arts (Room 406)
Chair: Marina Rojavin (Temple University)
Discussant:  Douglas Greenfield (Columbia University)

Pagan and Christian Traditions in Gogol's "Nakanune Ivana Kupala"
Jane Pickell (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

And God Created Laughter:  Panorama of Russian Religious Humor
Mikhail Sergeev (University of the Arts)

Antonina Belova's Put' podnebesnyi: Sanctuary for a Muse
Mary Theis (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania)

East European Social History (Room 404)
Chair/Discussant:  Bradley Abrams (Columbia University)

The Image of Greece in the Russian Periodical Press during the Crimean War
(1853-56)
Lucien Frary (Rider University)

Six Hours in Minsk:  Competing Totalitarian Memories
During President Clinton's 1994 Visit to Post-Communist Belarus
Eric Jarvis (King's University College)

From Sachsenhausen and Dachau to Lysenkoism:  Stanislaw Skowron, Polish
Biologist
William deJong-Lambert (Bronx Community College, CUNY)

Twentieth-Century Russian Prose II (Room 405)
Chair: Tim Doyle (The Lawrenceville School)
Discussant:  Ellen Chances (Princeton University)

Fathers, Sons and Mother Russia:  A Psychosocial Study
of the Russian Intelligentsia in Andrei Bitov's Pushkin House
Ekaterina Sukhanova (Queensborough Community College, CUNY)

Choosing the Hero:  Nabokov's Short Story "Recruiting"
As an Introduction to his Aesthetics
Constantine Muravnik (Yale University)

Self-Parasitism and Disembodied Meters in Nabokov's Eugene Onegin Project
John Wright (Columbia University)


Session IV  3:40-5:00 p.m.

Russian Literature Before 1900 (Room 406)
Chair:  Irina Reyfman (Columbia University)
Discussant: Tatiana Smoliarova (Columbia University)

Faustian Themes in 17th -Century Russia: Moscovite Rus' Unready for a New
Hero
Mikhail Lipyanskiy (The CUNY Graduate Center)

I.S. Turgenev:  A Russian Uncle of European Existentialism
Evelina Mendelevich (The CUNY Graduate Center)

The Figure of the Double in Turgenev's "First Love," "The Dream"
and "The Diary of a Superfluous Man"
Anna Dvigubski (Columbia University)

Pushkin in Russian Intellectual History (1820-1900's and Today)
Sofiya Kats (SUNY at Albany)

East European Film (Room 404)
Chair: Mary Theis (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant:  Adriana Helbig (Columbia University)

Recovering the Stolen Memory:  Ukrainian Cinema between 1895 and 1920
Yuri Shevchuk (Columbia University)

Narrative Strategies in Belarussian Films
Inna Mattei (Harvard University)

Dziga Vertov:  Self-Portrait of a Young Filmmaker as a Soviet Agent
Cristina Vatulescu (New York University)

Assimilating the Exotic (Room 405)
Chair:  Tim Doyle (The Lawrenceville School)
Discussant:  Nathaniel Knight (Seton Hall University)

The Soviet Consumption of Africa:  A Case of Mild Indigestion
Maxim Matusevich (Seton Hall University)

We, Too, Are Soviet:  The All-Russian Gypsy Union, 1924-1928
Brigid O'Keeffe (New York University)


Reception  5:00-6:00 p.m.

The Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference would like to thank the Harriman
Institute and Barnard College for their generous support of the conference
and this reception.