Princeton University
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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May 9-11, 2008
The Pain of Words: Narratives of Suffering in Slavic Cultures
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/calendar/detail.php?ID=1628
May 9, 2008
Panel 1: TRAUMATIZED NATIONS
Chair: Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton)
Kevin Platt (U of Pennsylvania)
Greatness and Terror: Patriotic Identity and Trauma
Aida Vidan (Harvard U)
To Remember or to Forget: Narratives of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s
Julie Fairbanks (U of Akron)
Memory and Sorrow: The Caucasian War and Adyg Narratives of Suffering
Discussant: Alexander Etkind (Cambridge, UK)
Panel 2: STYLIZED VIOLENCE
Chair: Petre Petrov (Princeton U)
Dunja Popovic (Harvard U)
"The Banner of My Blood": Pain and Ideology in Soviet Socialist Realism
Harriet Murav (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Real Men and Phantom Stories: Pain and Prosthesis in Soviet War Literature
Yulia Minkova (NYU/Drew U)
Tortured Language: The Economy of Violence in Soviet Discourse
Discussant: Sibelan Forrester (Swarthmore College)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Cathy Caruth, Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Emory University.
May 10, 2008
Panel 3: ACHING SOUNDS
Chair: Margaret Beissinger (Princeton U)
Soelve Curdts (Princeton U)
Absolute for Death: Music, Pain, and "the End of all Things"
Krista Hegburg (Rutgers U)
The Veracious Voice: The Romani Holocaust and the Politics of Commensuration in the Czech Republic
Maria Cizmic (U of South Florida)
Russian Avant-garde Piano Performance as an Expression of Cultural Trauma During Glasnost
Discussant: TBA
Panel 4: INJURED BODIES
Chair: Devin Fore (Princeton U)
Ilya Kalinin (Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Injuries of Detachment: Russian Formalists, Leo Tolstoy, and Battlefield Surgery
Lilya Kaganovsky (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Male Hysteria: The Socialist Realist Body in Pain
Irina Sandomirskaja (University College of Södertörn, Sweden)
Stealing Word and Being Stolen by Words: Deaf-Blind Body Performing Language
Rolf Hellebust (U of Nottingham, UK)
Suffering and Seeing in Classic Soviet Production Novel: Valentin Kataev's "Time, Forward!"
Discussant: Caryl Emerson (Princeton U)
Panel 5: REMEMBERED CAMPS
Chair: Ksana Blank (Princeton U)
Manuela Consonni (Hebrew U, Israel)
Knowledge and Pain in the Lager and in the Gulag Writings: A Contribution to the History of the Ruled
Cathy Frierson (U of New Hampshire)
"Fortitude" Trumps "Suffering": Oral Testimonies of Children of the "Enemies of the People" in the Soviet Union
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (Columbia U)
Pain and Memory: Narrating the Gulag
Denis Kozlov (Dalhousie U, Canada)
Responding to Solzhenitsyn: Prison Camp Experiences in Readers' Letters to Novyi Mir from the 1960s.
Discussant: Mark Lipovetsky (U of Colorado at Boulder)
Panel 6: WOUNDED CITIES
Chair: Serguei Oushakine (Princeton U)
Dieter De Bruyn and Michel Dobbeleer (Ghent U, Belgium)
Cities of Suffering/Places of Pain: Translating Trauma After/Through Leningrad and Warsaw
Polina Barskova (Hampshire College)
Dis-Figuration of the Siege: The Skeleton, The Fatty, and the Other
Emiliya Karaboeva (National College of Ancient Languages and Cultures, Sofia, Bulgaria)
The Fabric of Pain: Bulgarian Streen Necrologs
Sergii Mirnyi (Ukraine)
Chernobyl Overcoming: Narrative as Means of Recovery
Discussant: Nancy Ries (Colgate U)
Film Screening: The Blockade (dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2005, 52 min)
May 11, 2008
Panel 7: TORMENTED PERFORMANCES
Chair: TBA
David Goldfarb (EES Online, Institute for Global Politics, Freie Univerrsity of Berlin, Germany)
Sacher-Masoch, Masochism, and the Sublime in the Polish Afterwar Avant-garde
Elena Baraban (U of Manitoba, Canada)
Framing Suffering: The War in Soviet Film of the Stalin Era
Vieda Skultans (U of Bristol, UK)
The Politics of Inebration and Performative Narratives in Post-Soviet Society
Discussant: Helena Goscilo (U of Pittsburg)
Panel 8: CULTIVATED PAIN
Chair: TBA
Brian Baer (Kent State U)
The Politics of Pain: Homosexuality and Cultural Citizenship in Post-Soviet Russia
Dragan Kujundzic (U of Florida)
vEmpire, Race, and Pain: Bosnia, Kosovo, 'the Serbs' and the Pain of the Muslim Other
Jarrett Zigon (Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
The Suffering Self and Other: Ethical Practices and Russian Orthodox Church Drug Rehabiliation
Discussant: Ellen Chances (Princeton U)
Concluding Remarks
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Program Committee:
Serguei Oushakine (Princeton), Devin Fore (Princeton), Petre Petrov (Princeton),
Alexander Etkind (Cambridge/Princeton), Nancy Ries (Colgate/Institute for Advanced Study).
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