CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The Pain of Words: Narratives of Suffering in Slavic Cultures
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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 (
Kevin Platt (U of
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
Memory and Sorrow: The Caucasian War and Adyg Narratives of Suffering
Discussant: Alexander Etkind (
3:15 - 5:15 Panel 2: STYLIZED VIOLENCE
Chair: Petre Petrov (
Dunja Popovic (Harvard U)
"The Banner of My Blood": Pain and Ideology in Soviet
Socialist Realism
Harriet Murav (U of
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 (
5:30 - 6:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Cathy Caruth, Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative
Literature and English at
May 10, 2008
9:00 - 11:00 Panel 3: INJURED BODIES
Chair: Devin Fore (
Ilya Kalinin (
Injuries of Detachment: Russian Formalists, Leo Tolstoy, and Battlefield
Surgery
Lilya Kaganovsky (U of
Male Hysteria: The Socialist Realist Body in Pain
Irina Sandomirskaja (
Stealing Word and Being Stolen by Words: The Deaf-Blind Body Performing
Language
Rolf Hellebust (U of
Suffering and Seeing in the Classic Soviet Production Novel: Valentin
Kataev's "Time, Forward!"
Discussant:
11:15 - 1:15 Panel 4: ACHING SOUNDS
Chair: Margaret Beissinger (
Soelve Curdts (
Absolute for Death: Music, Pain, and "the End of all Things"
Krista Hegburg (
The Veracious Voice: The Romani Holocaust and the Politics of
Commensuration in the
Maria Cizmic (U of
Russian Avant-garde Piano Performance as an Expression of Cultural
Trauma during Glasnost
Discussant: Boris Gasparov (
2:00 - 4:00 Panel 5: REMEMBERED CAMPS
Chair: Ksana Blank (
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
"Fortitude" Trumps "Suffering": Oral Testimonies of
Children of the "Enemies of the People" in the
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (
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
4:15 - 6:15 Panel 6: WOUNDED CITIES
Chair: Serguei Oushakine (
Dieter De Bruyn and Michel Dobbeleer (Ghent U)
Cities of Suffering/Places of Pain: Translating Trauma after/through
Polina Barskova (
Dis-Figurations of the Siege: The Skeleton, The Fatty, and the Other
Emiliya Karaboeva (
The Fabric of Pain: Bulgarian Street Posted Obituaries
Sergii Mirnyi (
Overcoming
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 (
David Goldfarb (EES Online, Institute for Global Politics, Freie
Universität
Sacher-Masoch, Masochism, and the Sublime in the Polish Afterwar
Avant-garde
Elena Baraban (U of
Framing Suffering: The War in Soviet Film of the Stalin Era
Vieda Skultans (U of
The Politics of Inebration and Performative Narratives in Post-Soviet
Society
Discussant: Helena Goscilo (U of
11:30 - 1:30 Panel 8: CULTIVATED PAIN
Chair: Mischa Gabowitsch (
Brian Baer (
The Politics of Pain: Homosexuality and Cultural Citizenship in
Post-Soviet
Dragan Kujundzic (U of
vEmpire, Race, and Pain:
Jarrett Zigon (Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology)
The Suffering Self and Other: Ethical Practices and Russian Orthodox
Church Drug Rehabilitation
Discussant: Ellen Chances (
1:30 - 2:00 Concluding Remarks
Program Committee:
Serguei Oushakine (Princeton), Devin Fore (Princeton), Petre Petrov (
Alexander Etkind (Cambridge/Princeton), Nancy Ries (Colgate/Institute
for Advanced Study).
http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/