Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:20:52 -0500 (EST)
From: "William K. Wolf" <[log in to unmask]>


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"Negotiating Cultural Upheavals: Icons, Myths, and Other Institutions of
Cultural Memory in Modern Russia, 1900-2000"

An Interdisciplinary Russian Culture Conference
April 13-15, 2000
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Twentieth-century Russia has seen more than its share of social and
cultural upheaval resulting from wars, revolutions, the collapse of
governments and the imposition of others--events that extend from 1905 to
the more recent disintegration of the Soviet Union and Russia's
reintegration in to the global economy. These social and political changes
have inevitably affected the course of cultural evolution, producing
enormous gulfs between new and old traditions and isolating thousands of
people from their traditional cultural environments. Despite their
magnitude, these gulfs are not unbridgeable: in fact, various types of
"bridges" have been and are being constructed across them. The objective of
this interdisciplinary conference is to examine these bridges, their
builders, and the ideas upon which they are founded.

Article-length versions of the conference papers will be considered for
publication in a special issue of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and
Eurasian History.

The conference organizing committe members are: Dr. Galina Rylkova, chair;
Dr. Michael David-Fox, Dr. Sara Dickinson, Dr. George Kalbouss, and Dr.
Irene Masing-Delic.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 13
5-7pm--Registration, Reception
7pm--Opening Remarks: Irene Masing-Delic (Ohio State U)
7:15pm--Keynote Address
VIKTOR YEROFEYEV (Moscow) "The Misadventures of Humanism in Russia"
Introduction by: Galina Rylkova (Ohio State U)

FRIDAY, APRIL 14
9-11 am
PANEL I: "The Strategies of Appropriation"
Chair: Sara Dickinson (Ohio State U)
ALEKSANDR ETKIND* (European U) "Vanguard Looking Backward: Popular Sects
in the Political Imagination of the Russian Revolution"
MICHAEL MAKIN (U of Michigan): "Whose Klyuev?"
WILLIAM NICKELL (UC Santa Cruz): "Tolstoy as Mirror of Cultural Change"
GALINA RYLKOVA (Ohio State U): "A Silver Lining to the Russian Clouds: The
Myth of the Silver Age in the Twentieth Century"

11:15am-12:15pm--Keynote Address
SHEILA FITZPATRICK (U of Chicago): "Reflections on Cultural Upheaval in
Twentieth-Century Russia"
Introduction by: Michael David-Fox (U of Maryland)

12:15-1:30--Lunch

1:30-3:30pm
PANEL II: "Perfecting the Past Imperfect"
Chair: George Kalbouss (Ohio State U)
ANGELA BRINTLINGER (Ohio State U): "Bridging the Border:Creating a Usable
Past in Soviet Russia and Russia Abroad in the Late 1920s"
IVAN ESAULOV* (Russ. State Humanities U): "V poiskakh utrachennoi Rossii"
LEONID LIVAK (Grinnell College): "Toward the Semiotics and Cultural
Mythology of Russian Literary Activity in Emigration"
PAUL ROBINSON (Royal Military College of Canada): "Gallipoli, the White
Idea, and Modern Russia"

3:30-4pm--Coffee Break

4-6pm
Panel III: "Negotiating an Identity Crisis"
Chair: Helena Goscilo (U of Pittsburgh)
DONALD WRIGHT (Tulane U): "The Russian Army, National Celebrations, and
the Construction of Patriotic Identity, 1906-1913"
ANNA KRYLOVA (John Hopkins U): "It is Difficult for You to Understand Us:
The Stalinist Person as Our Generation"
EVGENII BERSHTEIN (Reed College): "Sexual Identities in Russian Symbolism:
Viacheslav Ivanov and Pavel Florenskii"
BRIAN BAER (Kent State U): "The Silver Age and the Re-Construction of a
Gay Past in Russia: Texts & Contexts"

SATURDAY, APRIL 15
9-11am
Panel IV: "Over and Under the Barriers"
Chair: Jean Laves (U of Chicago)
KELLY HEROLD (Grinnell College): "Artistic Memory as Icon and Myth in the
Autobiographies of Vladimir Nabokov"
BRIAN HOROWITZ (U of Nebraska): "Recesses of Humanism: Semen Dubnov's
'Jewish Autonomism' in the Context of Russian History"
RUTH RISCHIN (Independent Scholar): "In the Shades of Spain: Gorky's Last
Legacy to Hebrew Literature"
KATERINA CLARK* (Yale U): "Thinking National Cultural Identity at a Time
of Crisis: Soviet Intellectuals and German Exiles in Moscow, 1935-1938"

11:15am 12:15pm
Keynote address
IRENE MASING-DELIC (Ohio State U): "What Makes a Good Mediator: the Case
of Maxim Gorky"
Introduction by: Anelya Rugaleva (Ohio State U)

12:15-1:30pm--Lunch

1:30-3:30pm
Panel V: "Facing Post-Soviet Abyss"
Chair: David Hoffmann (Ohio State U)
DENIS KOZLOV (U of Toronto): "The Historical Antiquarianism of the Soviet
Intelligentsia: Images and Representations of the Past, 1953-1991"
DAVID WEBER (U of Wisconsin): "What is to be Done? The Debate over Lenin's
Remains in Post-Soviet Russia"
MICHAEL GORHAM (U of Florida): "New Russian Purism: Negotiating National
Identity in the Language Culture of Post-Soviet Russia"
SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (Columbia U): "A Wordless Anthem: In the State of
Post-Soviet Aphasia"

3:30-4pm--Coffee Break

4-6pm
Panel VI: "Bridging Great Divides"
Chair: Katherine David-Fox (Ohio State U)
KARL QUALLS (U of Missouri):
"The Architectural Bridge: Planning Soviet Cities after World War II"
STEPHEN V. BITTNER (U of Chicago): "Remembering the Avante-Garde: Novyi
Arbat, Post-Stalinist Architecture, and the Legacy of Soviet
Constructivism, 1953-65"
JAMES WEST (U of Washington): "St. George & the Sun God: Russian Popular
Imagery Across the Revolutionary Divide"
TIM SCHOLL (Oberlin College): "Bringing Beauty Back: The 1999 Revival of
the 1890 Sleeping Beauty"

* denotes Invited Panel Speaker

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The conference is open to the public, but registration is required. The
registration fee is $25 ($35 for late registration), but this fee is waived
for graduate and undergraduate students (students not registering by the
deadline will be charged $10). Lunches on Friday and Saturday will each
cost an additional $5 (even students must pay to attend). Please include
payment with your registration form and make checks payable to “The Ohio
State University.” Registration deadline is March 31, 2000.

The conference will take place at the Holiday Inn on Lane Avenue. For those
needing lodging, rooms are $89 per night, but space is limited (call
614-294-4848 for reservations). Limited space may also exist in the OSU
dormitory ($25 per night—call 614-292-8266), but will not be available
until two weeks before the conference. If you are unable to secure lodging
or have any conference-related questions, call (614) 292-8770, or write to:
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Registration Form:

Name:

Insititution:

Address:

E-mail Address:

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Attending Saturday Lunch? ___ yes ___ no

Please mail this form (& check) by March 31, 2000 to:
Bill Wolf, 1712 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH, USA 43210-1219
FAX: 614-292-4273

conference sponsored by
OSU Mershon Center
OSU Center for Slavic & East European Studies
OSU Dept Slavic & East European Languages & Literatures

and made possible with funds from
The US Department of Education




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