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

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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:32:43 -0400
From: Alina Yakubova <yakubova@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
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Subject: SLAVIC HISTORICAL MYTHOLOGIES CONFERENCE, April 27th


>Dear All!
>
>>Please attend:
>
>SLAVIC HISTORICAL MYTHOLOGIES
>
>Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Rm. 329A
>
>(34th and Walnut – above Starbucks)
>
>
>April 27, 2007
>
>
>915 – 945            Coffee and pastries
>
>945  – 1000            Opening remarks
>
>1000 – 1200            Panel I: Medieval
>
>Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University, “The ‘Unclean People’ of the
>Revelations of Pseudo-Methodios of Patara in the Povest’ vremennykh let”
>
>Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania, “Myths about Myths: the
>Makeover of the Slavic Sibylline Prophecies”
>
>Michael Pesenson, Swarthmore College, “Changing Perceptions of the
>Antichrist in Russian Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to the
>Silver Age”
>
>Discussant: Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
>
>1200 - 100            Lunch (provided for participants)
>
>100 – 300            Panel II: Nineteenth Century
>
>Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania. “Russian Glubbdubdrib:
>Dimitry’s Shade and the Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism”
>
>Katerina Clark, Yale University, “The Cult of Byron in 1930s Russia”
>
>Galin Tikhanov, Lancaster University, “Organicity: towards the history of
>a discourse”
>
>Discussant: Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania
>
>245 – 315            Coffee Break
>
>315 – 515            Panel III: Twentieth Century
>
>Mark Steinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Wandering in
>Shattered Time: The Mythic Melancholy of Lost Pasts, Ruined Presents, and
>Catastrophic Futures”
>
>David Brandenberger, Richmond University, “"The Great Retreat: Stalin’s
>Cooption of Russian Historical Myths in the Eyes of the Left Intelligentsia.”
>
>Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, "Princeton’s Boris Godunov (April
>2007): Russian myths meet American realities—and resources”
>
>Discussant: Peter Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
>
>530 – 730                  Dinner Reception at location TBA
>
>
>
>Associate Professor Kevin M. F. Platt
>Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
>745 Williams Hall
>255 S. 36th Street
>University of Pennsylvania
>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
>
><mailto:kmfplatt@sas.upenn.edu>kmfplatt@sas.upenn.edu
>http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic
>
>Tel: 215-746-0173
>Fax: 215-573-7794

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