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Moscow in Russian Culture
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
September 19-20, 2008
Friday, September 19 - Russell House
2:00-3:30
Welcome
Susanne Fusso, Wesleyan University
History and Politics
Philip Pomper, Wesleyan University, "Moscow and the Nature of
Russian Power"
Danielle Lussier, University of California, Berkeley, "The Political
Culture of the Modern Muscovite in Comparative Perspective"
Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University, "Moscow as the Capital of
Russian Capitalism."
Moderator: Susanne Fusso, Wesleyan University
3:45-5:30
Moscow and Muscovites
Mikhail N. Epstein, Emory University, "Moscow Types: An
Introduction to a Lexical Typology" (in Russian)
Yury V. Mann, Institute of World Literature, Moscow, "Moscow in
Gogol's Life and Works" (in Russian)
Ian K. Lilly, University of Auckland, "Three Views of Moscow in
Russian History: Ivan Zabelin, Mikhail Zagoskin, Vladimir Giliarovsky"
Moderator: Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University
Evening
7:30
Sergey Gandlevsky, "Poetry reading and memoir 'The Monument'" (in
Russian)
Yuz Aleshkovsky, "The Private Life of a Writer Inside the TsDL" (in
Russian)
Moderator: Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University
Saturday, September 20 - Russell House
10:00-12:00
Architecture
Richard Anderson, Columbia University, "Moscow as Architectural
Model"
Julia Bekman Chadaga, Macalester College, "Crystal Palaces on
Chicken Legs: Osip Mandelstam and the Architecture of New Moscow"
Katerina Clark, Yale University, "The Rebuilding of Moscow,
1922-1941"
Julie Buckler, Harvard University, "The Contested Cultural
Topography of Present-Day Moscow."
Moderator: Philip Pomper, Wesleyan University
1:30-3:00
Moscow as Imagined Space
Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, "Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and
the Minus-Space of Moscow"
Vladimir Golstein, Brown University, "Temple Destroyed, Cathedral
Restored: Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Bulgakov's Master
and Margarita"
Anne Lounsbery, New York University, "Moscow as 'Provincial'"
Moderator: Duffy White, Wesleyan University
3:30-5:00
Film, Theater, Poetry
Brinton Tench Coxe, Drew University, "Virtually Moscow: Petr
Khazizov's Manga"
Katherine Lahti, Trinity College, "Some Thoughts on Psoy Korolenko"
Matvei Yankelevich, Ugly Duckling Presse, "Subversion in the
Capital: Contemporary Moscow Poetry (Elena Fanailova, Dmitry Kuzmin,
Kirill Medvedev)"
Moderator: Yuriy Kordonskiy, Wesleyan University.
Evening - Fisk Hall, 262 High Street, Room 302
7:30
Sergei Miroshnichenko, Filmmakers' Union of Russia, screening of
Born in the USSR (1999)
Moderator: Irina Aleshkovsky, Wesleyan University
Comments and questions may be sent to E-mail Susanne Fusso
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