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Miami University - The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies

http://casnov1.cas.muohio.edu/havighurstcenter

5th Annual International Young Researchers Conference, 27-29 October, 2005

Theme: "Thinking in/after Utopia. East-European and Russian Philosophy
before and after the Collapse of Communism"

Thursday, October 27

5:30-7:00pm

(Public Lecture) - "The End of Leninism and the Future of Liberal Values"
Vladimir TISMANEANU, University of Maryland

Introduction of Conference: Jeffrey HERBST, Provost of Miami University

Introduction of Speaker: Karen DAWISHA, Director of Havighurst Center,
Miami University

Harrison Hall 304


Friday, October 28-Miami Inn, A/B Room

9:00-11:00

Welcome and Introduction to Sessions! , Costica BRADATAN

First Session: "Saints, Workers, and Philosophers"

Chair: Aurelian CRAIUTU, Indiana University

Clementa ANTONOVA, Oxford University:
"The Reception of Florensky's Works in Russian and Soviet Scholarship"

Serguei OUSHAKINE, Columbia University/Princeton University:
"From Russian Tragedy to Vital Forces: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity"

Discussant: Stephen NORRIS, Miami University


11:00-11:15
Coffee Break


11:15-1:00

Second Session: "The Secret Charm of Eastern Europe"

Chair: Michael ROULAND, Miami University

Letitia GURAN, College of William & Mary:
"Aesthetics: a Modus Vivendi in East Central Europe?"

Aurelian CRAIUTU, Indiana University:
"Democracy and Philosophy in Eastern Europe: A Tocquevillian Perspective"
Discussant: Brian DANOFF, Miami University


1:00-2:00
Lunch Break


2:00-4:00

Third Session: "Forms of Dissent - Ideology,! Poetry, Religion"

Chair: Zara TORLONE, Miami University

Jeffrey STEVENSON MURER, Swarthmore College:
"A Rereading of the Critical Sociology of the Budapest and Frankfurt
Schools"

Natasa KOVACEVIC, University of Florida:
"Orientalizing Communism: The Shifting Boundaries of Europe in Brodsky and
Milosz"

Eva CERMANOVA, Indiana University:
"The Radical Catholicism of Vaclav Benda: An Enfant Terrible of Czech
Dissidence"

Discussant: Zachary WEIR


4:00-5:30
Break


5:30-7:00
(Public Lecture)- "The Platonic Drama of Russian Thought: Ideas against
Ideocracy"
Mikhail EPSTEIN, Emory University

Introduction of Speaker: Steven DELUE, Dean of College of Arts & Sciences,
Miami University

Harrison Hall 111


Saturday, October 29-MacMillan Hall, Great Room

9:00-10:30

Fourth Session: "Dissidence and the Art of Dying"

Chair: Benjamin SUTCLIFFE, Miami University

Veronika TUCKEROVA, Columbia University:
"Totalitarian Language: Fidelius vs. Havel vs. Rorty"

Costica BRADATAN, Miami University:
"Jan Patocka's Socratic Art of Dying"

Discussant: Nick NESBITT, Miami University


10:30-10:45
Coffee Break


10:45-12:15

Fifth Session: "The Politics of Hope"

Chair: William MCKENNA

Ivars IJABS, University of Latvia:
"Politics of Authenticity" and/or Civil Society"

Jonathan LARSON, University of Michigan:
"Critiques of Impure Reason? Contextualizing Postsocialist Slovak
Intellectual Conflict"

Discussant: Venelin GANEV, Miami University


12:15-1:30
Lunch Break

1:30-2:45
(Public Lecture)-- "20th Century Russian Utopian and Dystopian Fiction as
a Mode of Philosophical Discourse"

Catharine NEPOMNYASHCHY, Columbia University

Introduction of Speaker: Margaret ZIOLKOWSKI, Miami University

MacMillan Hall ! Great Room

Conference is free and open to the public.



Dr. Costica Bradatan
Havighurst Conference Coordinator






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Department of Philosophy,
Miami University,
Hall Auditorium, 221
Oxford, OH 45056
USA

http://www.users.muohio.edu/bradatc/

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