SLAVIC FORUM 2000
Program
Friday, April 7, 2000
Ida Noyes Library
8:30 - 9:00 am Coffee Service, Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:30 am Panel One: Violence in Literature
Discussant: Prof. Christopher Larkosh, University of Chicago
Lynn Ellen Patyk, Stanford University
"Memoirs of a Terrorist or Diary of a Masked Man? Savinkov's Pale Steed"
David Kaiser, University of Chicago
"Violent Imagery in the Works of Gombrowicz and Witkiewicz"
Andrea Fabry, State University of New York-Stony Brook
"The Frustrated Flaneur and the Somnambulist: Modernity Looks Back"
10:40 - 12:10 am Panel Two: Ethics and Literature
Discussant: Prof. Norman Ingham, University of Chicago
Alina Wyman, University of Chicago
"Rethinking Bakhtin: The Concept of 'Live Entering' in Dostoyevsky's Memoirs From the House of the Dead and The Idiot"
Natalie Smith, University of Texas
"Pontius Pilate's Creative Biography: From 'Notes of a Young Doctor' to Master and Margarita"
Steve Mannos, University of Chicago
"A Conspiracy of the Self: The Secret Life of Anna Karenina"
12:10 pm - 1:20 pm Lunch
Friday, April 7th, 2000 (cont.)
1:20 - 2:50 pm Panel Three: 20th Century Polish Literature
Discussant: Prof. Piotr Wilczek, University of Illinois-Chicago
Michal Hanczakowski, Jagiellonian University
"Quo vadis Viewed Through the Prism of the Character of Petroniusz"
Kinga Maciejewska, University of Chicago
"Na tropach Smetka by Melchior Wankowicz: The Development of Reportaz in the Interwar Poland"
Michal Nawrocki, Jagiellonian University
"Ars Amandi and Ars Moriendi: Eroticism and Death in the Poetry of Stanislaw Grochowiak"
3:00 - 4:30 pm Panel Four: Extraliterary Influences in Literature
Discussant: Prof. Milton Ehre, University of Chicago
Liza Ginzburg, University of Chicago
"The Anagram of Elena Deniseva in Tyutchev's Lyrics of 1850 — 1864"
Kamila Kinyon Kuchar, University of Chicago
"Nabokov's Reflections of Philistinism: The False Dopppelgangers of Lolita"
Elizabeth Scheynzon, Northwestern University
"Moskva-Petushki by Venedikt Erofeev and the Thought of Friedrich Nieztsche"
4:40 pm Keynote Address --
Prof. David Powelstock, University of Chicago
"The American Slavist: A Theoretical and Personal Reflection"
Reception to follow
Saturday, April 8th, 2000
Ida Noyes Library
10:45 am Coffee Service, Introductory Remarks
11:15 am Panel: The Poetics of Politics and The Politics of Poetics
Discussant: Prof. Andrew Wachtel, Northwestern University
Chad Faries, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Intensive Care: A Query Into the Influence of Eastern European Poetry on American Poetry"
Andrzej Niekrasz, Northwestern University
"The Uses and Misuses of Postmodernism: Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of Khazars
Gabby Isaacs, University of Chicago
"Re-Visioning the Intelligent in Russia's Silver Age"
Tomasz Tabako, Northwestern University
"Poetics of Social Movements: The Case of Poland's Solidarity"
1:10 — 2:00 pm Choir Performances:
Golosa--Russian Folk Music
Hortus Deliciarum--Polish Renaissance and Baroque Music
6:00 pm Dinner Reception for all conference participants
at the home of Karen Underhill
5715 S. Kimbark Ave, Apt. 1 [very near campus]