The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of
Pennsylvania
cordially invites you to
the Fifth Annual Spring Slavic Symposium
This year's theme is THE USES OF THE PAST
When: FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008
Where: University of Pennsylvania, Max Kade Center (3401 Walnut St, Room
329A)
For more information please visit our website at
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/events/slavic_symposium/slavic_symposiu
m_index.htm
or contact Julia Verkholantsev at [log in to unmask]
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
10:00 am - 12:00 pm, SESSION I
Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University)
"Renegotiating the Past: Hadiach Agreement (1658) in the History of the
Rus"
Olenka Z. Pevny (University of Richmond)
"Medieval Monuments and the Building of National Identity in Ukraine"
Edward L. Keenan (Harvard University)
"The Uses of the Past: the East Slavic Case"
Discussant: Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)
1:30 - 3:30 pm, SESSION II
Donald Ostrowski (Harvard University)
"The Shifting Present and Written Images of the Mongols"
Cherie Woodworth (Yale University)
"Myths, History, and Genealogy: Personal and Political in 16th-Century
Muscovy"
Kevin M. F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania)
"Allegory's Half-life: The Specter of Stalin's Ivan in Contemporary
Russia"
Discussant: Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania)
4:00 - 6:00 pm, SESSION III
Stephen M. Norris (Miami University)
"Terrorism Then and Now: Karen Shakhnazarov's Rider Called Death (2003)
and the
Contemporary Historical Film"
Kathleen E. Smith (Georgetown University and George Washington
University)
"Spinning the Secret Speech: Propagandists and the Stalinist Past in
1956"
Seguei A. Oushakine (Princeton University)
"A Confused Story of Confusion: Narrating History in Russian War Songs"
Discussant: Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)
6:00 - 7:00 pm, RECEPTION
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