DEPARTMENT
OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
GRADUATE
STUDENT CONFERENCE
Pushkin/Anti-Pushkin
http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/calendar/detail.php?ID=1911
April
17-18, 2009
For nearly two centuries,
Pushkin’s legacy has been appropriated to serve myriad social, political and
artistic purposes by admirers and critics eager to recast the poet in their own
image. This interdisciplinary conference examines the evolution of his myth and
explores the humanization and demonization of Pushkin in the hope of
understanding the formative role he has played in fields as diverse as theater,
music, plastic arts, film, history, politics and, of course, literature.
All events in East
Pyne 245
Friday,
April 17:
6:30-8:00
pm Panel 1: Pushkin and Contemporary Russian
Literature
Chair: Lindsay Ceballos (
Maria
Khotimsky (
От Пушкина до... : Pushkin
in Contemporary Russian Poetry
Nicholas Kyle
Kupensky (
Pushkin, the Poet, and
Acts of Creation in Victor Erofeyev’s Art and
Thought
Christine
Dunbar (
Ничей Пушкин: Sergei
Gandlevskii’s Interpretations of the Onegin Stanza
Olga
Voronina (
A Feast in the Time of
Plague: Pushkin in Akhmatova’s Poem Without
a Hero
Discussant: Michael Wachtel (
Saturday,
April 18:
10:30-12:00
Panel 2: New Perspectives on Pushkin
Chair:
Connor Doak
(Northwestern
University)
Zakhar
Ishov (
«Твоя лазурь и наше
черноморье»: Pushkin and Ariosto – a history of a neglected
connection
Tim Portice
(
The
Pushkinian Sublime in Eugene
Onegin
Discussant: William Mills Todd III (
1:00-2:30
Panel 3: Musical Settings of Pushkin
Chair: Zaur Agaev (
Emily Frey
(
Onegin’s Journey: Chaikovsky and
Evgeny Onegin from Pushkin to
Dostoyevsky
Kerry Philben
(
Poetic Structure and Meaning in
Two Musical Settings of Pushkin’s Ekho
Carmen Returns to
Discussant: Boris Gasparov (
3:00-4:30
Panel 4: The Modernist Pushkin
Chair: Jesse Menefee (
Conor Klamann
(Northwestern University)
Pushkin and his Work in Soviet and
Post-Soviet
James Rann
(
A
Stowaway on the Steamship of Modernity: Aleksei Kruchenykh’s Futurist
Pushkin
TBA
Discussant:
Organizing
Committee:
Anna Berman,
Christine Dunbar, Timothy Portice,
SPONSORED
BY
THE COUNCIL OF THE
HUMANITIES,
THE DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
THE
THE PROGRAM IN
RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES