The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
and the Graduate Slavic Society
of the University of Chicago

present

SLAVIC FORUM 1999
Graduate Student Conference
on Russian and Central/East European
Literature and Culture
April 23-24, 1999

Preliminary program (subject to change; discussants to be announced)

Friday, April 23, 1999
Pick Hall, Room 016
8:30 - 8:45 am
Coffee service

8:45 am
Opening remarks

9:00 - 10:30 am
Panel One: (Slavic) Literatures Across Cultures
 Discussant: Malynne Sternstein, University of Chicago

  • John Merchant, University of Chicago
    "Irish-Polish Melodies: Thomas Moore in Polish Eyes"

  • Derek Katz, University of California-Santa Barbara
    "Don Juan in Prague and Brno: Leos Janacek and 20th Century Czech Don Juans"

  • Alexander Burry, Northwestern University
    " Dostoevsky's "Perfectly Beautiful Man" Moves to Japan: Kurosawa's Transposition of The Idiot"

    10:45 - 12:15 pm
    Panel Two: Novum: New Technologies, Media and Genres in Slavic Modernism
    Discussant: Anna Lisa Crone, University of Chicago

  • Heidi LeRette-Kauffman, University of Chicago
    "The Notion of Scientific Fantasy in Late Imperial Russia"

  • Kamila Kinyon-Kuchar, University of Chicago
    "The Phenomenology of Robots: Radius's Confrontations with Death in Capek's "R.U.R""

  • Julie Nachtigal-Broberg, University of Chicago
    "Symbolist Elements in Three Evgeny Bauer Films: Daydreams, The Dying Swan and The Happiness of Eternal Night"
    12:15 am - 1:15 pm Lunch

    1:15 - 2:45 pm
    Panel Three: New Perspectives on the Classics
     Discussant: Norman Ingham, University of Chicago

  • Michael Denner, Northwestern University
    "On Art, Murder, and the Aesthetics of Being Late in 'The Kreutzer Sonata'"

  • Alice Harris, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    "Courting Wisdom: the Russia Quest(ion) in "Gore ot uma" and "Nedorosl'""

  • Anne O'Brien Fisher, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    "An Unexamined Question: Women's Work in Chekhov's Art"

    3:00 - 5:00 pm
    Panel Four: Polish Literature
    Discussant: TBA

  • Malgorzata Lisiewicz, University of Chicago
    "The Avant-Garde in Poland"

  • Kinga Maciejewska, University of Chicago
    "Poetry of Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski--Pearl of Polish Baroque"

  • Lucja Kwasniak, Stanford University
    "Stanislaw Wyspianski's 'The Wedding' and Tadeusz Rozewicz's 'The Card Index' and 'The Card Index Scattered' as Aesthetic and Spiritual Manifestoes of Twentieth Century Polish Dramaturgy"

    Bill Martin, University of Chicago
    "Polishness and the Hermeneutic Imagination in Slowacki's Fantazy

    5:15 pm
    Keynote Address

    Professor Milton Ehre, University of Chicago

    "Chekhov and Freedom"

    Reception to follow

    Saturday, April 24th, 1998
    Ida Noyes Hall West Lounge

    9:30 - 11:00 am
    Panel One: Soviet Literature
    Discussant: Tim Langen, University of Missouri at Columbia

  • Laura Shear, University of Chicago
    "Representing the First Soviet Classic: Poems about Vladimir Mayakovsky for the 1940 Mayakovsky Jubilee"

  • Anna Krylova, Johns Hopkins University
    "'Healers of Wounded Souls': Soviet Writers Confront War Trauma, 1943-1946"

  • Anne Eakin, Stanford University
    "Writer, Bureaucrat and Soviet Citizen: Self and Stalin in the making of Konstantin Simonov's Literary Career"

    11:15 - 12:45 pm
    Panel Two: Gogol'
     Discussant: Didi DiVirgilio, University of Chicago

  • Derek Maus, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    "'The Devils in the Details: The Role of Evil in the Short Fiction of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol' and Nathaniel Hawthorne"

  • Eva Wampuszyc, Stanford University
    "East meets West: Nikolai Gogol's "The Portrait" in Light of Yuri Lotman's Concept of Codes"

  • Alina Wyman, University of Chicago
    "Gogol's Urban Labyrinth: The Demolishing of Semiotic Certainties in 'Nevsky Prospekt'"


    12:45 - 1:45 pm Break for Lunch

    2:00 - 3:30 pm
    Panel Three: Identities, Boundaries, Borders
     Discussant: Anna Lisa Crone, University of Chicago

  • Minjin Hashbat, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    "The Model of 'Other' in Vsevolod Ivanov's story 'The Child'"

  • Cynthia Ramsey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    "Parody, Pathos, and the Transgression of Borders: An Exploration of Albaharian Postmodern Poetics"

  • Karen Underhill, University of Chicago
    "'Lord! Do Not Make Me Like Parnok!': Internal Polemic in Osip Mandelstam's The Egyptian Stamp"

    3:45 - 5:15 pm
    Panel Four: Gendering Slavic Literature
    Discussant: Christopher Larkosh, Northwestern University

  • Shannon White, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    "A Woman Scorned: The Medea Mythos in Contemporary Russian Literature"

  • Laura Miller-Purenhage, University of Michigan
    "I am a Woman of Parts: Images of the Body in Anna Swirszczynska's Jestem baba "

  • Iveta Jusova, Miami University of Ohio
    "Bozena Vikova Kunetická: Matrilineal Nationalism"

    6:30 pm
    Dinner reception for all conference participants

    To view last year's conference program, click here.

    Graduate Slavic Society
    Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
    University of Chicago