The Harriman Institute at Columbia University presents
"From My Wondrous, Beautiful Far-Away":
Modern Russian Literature in Retrospect
A Conference in Memory of Robert A. Maguire
March 17-19, 2006
Social Hall, Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway at 121st Street, New York, NY 10027
All events are free and open to the public.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17
9:30
OPENING REMARKS
10-12
GOGOL AND SELF-FASHIONING
Chair, William Mills Todd, Harvard
Irina Reyfman, Columbia
What Makes a Gentleman?: Revisiting Gogol's Diary of a Madman
Nina Gourianova, Northwestern
Gogol and Kruchenykh
Emma Lieber, Columbia
"Where is the Sweet Revolution?": Gogol and Babel from the 21st Century
1:30-4
NEITHER IRON NOR IRONIC:
RUSSIAN-WESTERN METABOLISM RECONSIDERED
Chair, David Goldfarb, Columbia
Elizabeth Valkenier, Columbia
Peredvizhniki and Mir iskusstva: Two Worlds
Katerina Clark, Yale
Rethinking the 1920s without the Iron Curtain
Devin Fore, Cornell
Caricature and Montage in 1936: Heartfield, Tret'iakov, Klutsis
Carol Ueland, Drew
A Post-Modernist Revisits Myths of the Silver Age:
Andrei Makine's The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
4:30-6:30
DOMESTICATING THE GRAND NARRATIVE
Chair, Rebecca Stanton, Columbia
Douglas Greenfield, Columbia
Page-ing Dr. Werner: Physician to the Stars
Eric Naiman, UC Berkeley
Children in the Master and Margarita
Boris Gasparov, Columbia
Rediscovering Death after a Time of Terror: Shostakovich's Eleventh
Quartet and the Problem of Narrative Thanatology
6:30-8
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY, MARCH 18
9-11
JOYS OF HIGH STALINISM
Chair, Stephen Kotkin, Princeton
Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania
Gothic Ivan the Terrible: Or, the Horrific Pleasures of Russian
Despotism (1920s-1940s)
Simon Morrison, Princeton
Prokofiev's Stalinist Works, De-Stalinized
Andrew Hicks, Columbia
Negotiating Molodaia gvardiia, 1943-1951
11:30-1:30
DEFAMILIARIZING FORMALISM
Chair, Michael Flier, Harvard
Susanne Fusso, Wesleyan
Reevaluating Impressionism: Gogol, Annensky,
Eichenbaum
Caryl Emerson, Princeton
Krasnaia nov', "belyi" Bakhtinskii kruzhok: A Thought
Experiment for the 1920s
Thomas Seifrid, USC
Shklovsky, Gogol, and Others: Textual Energies
Reconsidered
3-5
SYMBOLISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Chair, Michael Wachtel, Princeton
Irene Masing-Delic, Ohio State
The Rose Gate and the Ant King, or the Poet's and the People's Shared
Legacy of Contamination and Vision of Purification in Blok's Mythology
of the West and Russia
Kirsten Lodge, Columbia
"Late Epigones of Pagan Decadence": Briusov's "The Last Martyrs" as a
Parody of Russian Symbolism
Bernice Rosenthal, Fordham
Symbolism, Futurism, Rock 'n' Roll
5:30-7:30
THE NARRATIVE OF SPACE AND THE SPACE OF
NARRATIVE
Chair, Richard Wortman, Columbia
Rebecca Stanton, Barnard
From "Underground" to "In the Basement": How Odessa Replaced Petersburg
as Capital of the Russian Literary Imagination
Tench Coxe, Columbia
Perceiving Moscow
Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Barnard
The Red Poppy: The City as Stage for Cultural
Confrontation
SUNDAY, MARCH 19
9:30-12
RECONFIGURING NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Chair, Elizabeth Beaujour, Hunter College
Liza Knapp, Columbia
Gogol and Tolstoy at Vanity Fair and in the Valley of the Shadow of Death
Cathy Popkin, Columbia
Far Afield
Ellen Chances, Princeton
Time, Epoch, and Diary of a Writer: How to Assess
Dostoevsky's Journalism?
Robert Belknap, Columbia
A Narratological Reading of Dostoevsky's Besy
1:30-4
METAPHYSICAL AND ETHICAL LEGACIES OF RUSSIAN REALISM
Chair, Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence
Hugh McLean, UC Berkeley
"Buried as a Writer and as a Man": The Puzzle of Family Happiness
Valentina Izmirlieva, Columbia
Lolita as "Crime" and "Pun"
Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania
Supernatural Naturalism: The Quest for Reality in Russian Literature of
the 1860s
Vadim Shkolnikov, Columbia
Idealism and Intervention: On the Realization of Russia in the Age of
Philosophical Circles
Co-sponsored by the University Seminar on Romanticism and the University
Seminar on Slavic History and Culture
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