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SLAVIC HISTORICAL MYTHOLOGIES
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Rm. 329A
(34th and Walnut - above Starbucks)
April 27, 2007
915 - 945 Coffee and pastries
945 - 1000 Opening remarks
1000 - 1200 Panel I: Medieval
Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University,
"The 'Unclean People' of the Revelations of Pseudo-Methodios of Patara in
the Povest' vremennykh let"
Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania,
"Myths about Myths: the Makeover of the Slavic Sibylline Prophecies"
Michael Pesenson, Swarthmore College,
"Changing Perceptions of the Antichrist in Russian Literature and Culture
from the Middle Ages to the Silver Age"
Discussant: Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
1200 - 100 Lunch (provided for participants)
100 - 300 Panel II: Nineteenth Century
Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania.
"Russian Glubbdubdrib: Dimitry's Shade and the Historical Imagination in the
Age of Realism"
Katerina Clark, Yale University,
"The Cult of Byron in 1930s Russia"
Galin Tikhanov, Lancaster University,
"Organicity: towards the history of a discourse"
Discussant: Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania
245 - 315 Coffee Break
315 - 515 Panel III: Twentieth Century
Mark Steinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"Wandering in Shattered Time: The Mythic Melancholy of Lost Pasts, Ruined
Presents, and Catastrophic Futures"
David Brandenberger, Richmond University,
""The Great Retreat: Stalin's Cooption of Russian Historical Myths in the
Eyes of the Left Intelligentsia."
Caryl Emerson, Princeton University,
"Princeton's Boris Godunov (April 2007): Russian myths meet American
realities-and resources"
Discussant: Peter Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
530 - 730 Dinner Reception at location TBA
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