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Saturday, March 19, 2005 For more information please visit http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/calendar/slavic_bazaar.htm The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Penn Humanities Forum are pleased to invite you to The UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE "SLAVIC BAZAAR" at PENN HUMANITIES FORUM, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2005 10:00 - 10:15 Welcome Address, Coffee and Refreshments 10:15 - 11:30 Session 1 Russian Literature Thomas Haymore "Dostoevsky and Rational Choice" Miriam Nogradi "Becoming a Native of Berlin" Tara Mendola "A Grey Star: Time and its Relation to Morality in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Ada" 11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 12:30 Keynote Lecture Christy MacMillan, "St. Petersburg Myth as Chronotope" 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Indian / Ukrainian Treats) 1:30 - 2:45 Session 2 Russia and the West Andrew Fink "Trade, Law, Liberty, and Novgorod. The Russian Venice" Spencer Willig "Notes of a Russian Nationalist: A Study of the Russian and the Foreign in Karamzin's Travelogue" Rayna Lopyan "Russia's Eighteenth-Century Conflict: Modernization, Unification, or Both?" 2:45 - 3:00 Coffee Break 3:00 - 4:30 Session 3 Russian and Ukrainian Societies Markian Dobczansky "War and Identity: Stalin, Khmelnytsky and Russo-Ukrainian Relations" Michael Hallam "Are Russians Bowling Alone? Post-Soviet Russian Civil Society" Dan Corren "The Khram and the Hymn: State Symbols in Post-Soviet Russia" 4:30 - 5:00 Closing Party