Saturday, March 19, 2005
For more information please visit
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/calendar/slavic_bazaar.htm
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Penn Humanities Forum
are pleased to invite you to
The UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE "SLAVIC BAZAAR"
at
PENN HUMANITIES FORUM, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2005
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome Address, Coffee and Refreshments
10:15 - 11:30 Session 1 Russian Literature
Thomas Haymore
"Dostoevsky and Rational Choice"
Miriam Nogradi
"Becoming a Native of Berlin"
Tara Mendola
"A Grey Star: Time and its Relation to Morality in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
and
Ada"
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:30 Keynote Lecture
Christy MacMillan, "St. Petersburg Myth as Chronotope"
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Indian / Ukrainian Treats)
1:30 - 2:45 Session 2 Russia and the West
Andrew Fink
"Trade, Law, Liberty, and Novgorod. The Russian Venice"
Spencer Willig
"Notes of a Russian Nationalist: A Study of the Russian and the Foreign in
Karamzin's Travelogue"
Rayna Lopyan
"Russia's Eighteenth-Century Conflict: Modernization, Unification, or Both?"
2:45 - 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:30 Session 3 Russian and Ukrainian Societies
Markian Dobczansky
"War and Identity: Stalin, Khmelnytsky and Russo-Ukrainian Relations"
Michael Hallam
"Are Russians Bowling Alone? Post-Soviet Russian Civil Society"
Dan Corren
"The Khram and the Hymn: State Symbols in Post-Soviet Russia"
4:30 - 5:00 Closing Party
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