Coffee, Opening Remarks

Discussant: Prof. Norman Ingham, University of Chicago

1. Charles Sabatos, University of Michigan, "In the Hands of the Turks: Representations of Captivity in Czech and Slovak Literature"

2. Ihor Junyk, University of Chicago, "Diasporic Classicism: Eastern European Émigrés and the Neoclassical Revival in Paris"

3. Luba Golburt, Stanford University, "Journey to the Land of Ophir: Count Scherbatov’s Utopian Past, Present, and Future"

Lunch

Discussant: Prof. David Powelstock, University of Chicago

1. Ioana Algiu, Michigan State University, "Exile (Hi)Stories"

2. Kinga Maciejewska, University of Chicago, "Kapuscinski: A Foreign Correspondent, a Prose Writer, or a Literary Critic?"

3. Natalie Smith, University of Texas at Austin, "Vremja i my: A Russian-Jewish Journal at the Turn of the Millennium"

Coffee

Discussant: Prof. Bill Darden, University of Chicago

1. Brian Felt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The Accentuation of Slavic Prefixed Nouns"

2. Charles Mills, University of Washington, "Czech Clitics and FSP"

3. Dave Kaiser, University of Chicago, "A Re-evaluation of the So-called ‘Iterative Imperfective’"

Lunch

Discussant: Prof. Anna Lisa Crone, University of Chicago

1. Andrzej Niekrasz, Northwestern University, "’Kak stranno, chto smotriat, kogda ia poiu!’: A Poet on Stage"

2. Stiliana Milkova, University of California at Berkeley, "Faith as Eros: The Modernist Rhetoric of Desire in the Poetry of Zinaida Gippius"

Discussant: Prof. Paul Friedrich, University of Chicago

1. Michael Johnson, University of Kansas, "The Unknown Onegin: Sergei Prokofiev’s 1936 Dramatization "

2. Michelle Woods, Trinity College, Dublin, "Milan Kundera and the Betrayal of Poetry"

3. Malgorzata Krasowska, University of Michigan, "Translation and Translatability of Lyrics by Polish and Italian Contemporary Women Poets: Wislawa Szymborska’s and Maria Luiza Spaziani’s Lyric Voices and Poetic Forms"

Dinner Party for Conference Participants