CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

The Pain of Words:  Narratives of Suffering in Slavic Cultures

 

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Princeton University

 

May 9-11, 2008

 

http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/calendar/detail.php?ID=1628

 

The conference is free and open to the public.

 

 

May 9, 2008

 

 

1:00 - 3:00    Panel 1: TRAUMATIZED NATIONS

Chair: Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton U)

 

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 U)

 

 

3:15 - 5:15   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) 

                                         

                                               

5:30 - 6:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Cathy Caruth, Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Emory University.

 

May 10, 2008

 

9:00 - 11:00   Panel 3: INJURED BODIES

Chair: Devin Fore (Princeton U)

 

Ilya Kalinin (Smolny College, St. Petersburg)

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)

Stealing Word and Being Stolen by Words: The Deaf-Blind Body Performing Language

 

Rolf Hellebust (U of Nottingham)

Suffering and Seeing in the Classic Soviet Production Novel: Valentin Kataev's "Time, Forward!"

 

Discussant: Caryl Emerson (Princeton U)

 

 

11:15 - 1:15   Panel 4: ACHING SOUNDS

Chair: Margaret Beissinger (Princeton) 

 

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: Boris Gasparov (Columbia U)

 

 

2:00 - 4:00  Panel 5: REMEMBERED CAMPS

Chair: Ksana Blank (Princeton U)

 

Manuela Consonni (Hebrew U)

Knowledge and Pain in the Lager and in 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)

Responding to Solzhenitsyn: Prison Camp Experiences in Readers' Letters to Novyi Mir from the 1960s.

 

Discussant: Mark Lipovetsky (U of Colorado at Boulder)

 

 

4:15 - 6:15  Panel 6: WOUNDED CITIES

Chair: Serguei Oushakine (Princeton)

 

Dieter De Bruyn and Michel Dobbeleer (Ghent U)

Cities of Suffering/Places of Pain: Translating Trauma after/through Leningrad and Warsaw

 

Polina Barskova (Hampshire College)

Dis-Figurations of the Siege: The Skeleton, The Fatty, and the Other

 

Emiliya Karaboeva (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria)

The Fabric of Pain: Bulgarian Street Posted Obituaries

 

Sergii Mirnyi (Ukraine) 

Overcoming Chernobyl: Narrative as Means of Recovery

 

Discussant: Nancy Ries (Colgate U)

 

 

7:15   FILM SCREENING: The Blockade (dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2005, 52 min)

 

 

May 11, 2008 

 

 

9:15 - 11:15  Panel 7: TORMENTED PERFORMANCES

Chair: Olga Hasty (Princeton U)

 

David Goldfarb (EES Online, Institute for Global Politics, Freie Universität Berlin)

Sacher-Masoch, Masochism, and the Sublime in the Polish Afterwar Avant-garde

 

Elena Baraban (U of Manitoba)

Framing Suffering: The War in Soviet Film of the Stalin Era

 

Vieda Skultans (U of Bristol)

The Politics of Inebration and Performative Narratives in Post-Soviet Society

 

Discussant: Helena Goscilo (U of Pittsburgh)

 

 

11:30 - 1:30  Panel 8: CULTIVATED PAIN

Chair: Mischa Gabowitsch (Princeton U)

 

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)

The Suffering Self and Other: Ethical Practices and Russian Orthodox Church Drug Rehabilitation

 

Discussant: Ellen Chances  (Princeton U)

 

1:30 - 2:00   Concluding Remarks

 

 

Program Committee:

 

Serguei Oushakine (Princeton), Devin Fore (Princeton), Petre Petrov (Princeton),

Alexander Etkind (Cambridge/Princeton), Nancy Ries (Colgate/Institute for Advanced Study).

 

http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/