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-----Original Message----- From: ESRCs East West Programme [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Serguei A. Oushakine Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:21 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Graduate Student Conference: UNDOING EROS: Love and Sexuality in Russian Culture (October 22-23, Princeton) http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/projects/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=1987 Graduate Student Conference - 2010 Princeton University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures UNDOING EROS: Love and Sexuality in Russian Culture A Graduate Student Conference October 22-23 Chancellor Greene Rotunda Room 105 The graduate student conference, Undoing Eros: Love and Sexuality in Russian Culture will examine the different ways Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals have problematized, disassembled, and reinvented the terms of love and sexuality. Ranging from societal trends to the intimate experiences of the individual, the topics of discussion will include: the role of love and sex in state ideology, taboos, familial relationships, gender roles (and their subversion), and the body. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Conference Program Friday, October 22nd 6:00-7:3 0pm Panel 1: Official Love Chair: Daniil Leiderman (Princeton University) Cassandra Hartblay (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Liminality in Love: Institutionalized Practice in Anna Rudnitskaya's Civil Status. Gleb Tsipursky (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Soviet Love in the Thaw: Official Models of Youth Romance in State-Sponsored Popular Culture Institutions. Olga Klimova (University of Pittsburgh) Un-tabooing Sex in Soviet Cinema of the 1970s: Teen Sexuality in Pavel Liubimov's Shkol'nyi val's. Discussant: Eric Naiman (University of California-Berkeley) 8:30pm Keynote Address: "Perverting Slavic Studies: A Love Story" Eliot Borenstein (New York University) Saturday, October 23rd 10:30-12:00pm Panel 2: Tolstoyan Love Chair: Lindsay Ceballos (Princeton University) Jennifer Wilson (Princeton University) (Drag)ging Tolstoy Into Queer Theory: On the Cross-Dressing Motif in War and Peace. Anna Berman (Princeton University) Tolstoy and Familyhood Katerina Lakhmitko (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) You Always Hurt the One You Love": Family, Desire and Loss in Liudmila Ulitskaia's The Foundling. Discussant: Susanne Fusso (Wesleyan University) 1:00-2:30pm Panel 3: The Russian Body Chair: TBC Anastasia Kayiatos (University of California-Berkeley) Plastic People of the Universe: Soviet Pantomime as Queer-Deaf Phenomenology Jason Strudler (Princeton University) "Formal" Beauty: Kruchenykh and the "Faktura" of the Female Body Geoff Cebula (Princeton University) The Face of Nemesis: Anxiety over Heredity in A. Verbitskaia's Keys to Happiness Discussant: Evgeny Bershtein (Reed College) 3:00-4:30pm Panel 4: Love and Sex in Contemporary Russia Chair: TBC Jeremi Szaniawski (Yale University) Post Revolution - Anima Triste: Lonely Voices, Alienated Sexes in Andrei Platonov's Prose and Alexander Sokurov's Cinema Linda Galvane (Osaka University) Undoing the Self by Doing the Other - The Representation of Russian Eroticism and Sexuality through the Representation of the Japanese in the works of Boris Akunin and Olga Lazoreva." Diana Dukhanova (Brown University) The Supernatural as Narrative Strategy: Taboo Sexuality and the Transgressive Body in Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's Magical Stories. Discussant: Helena Goscilo (Ohio State University) Program Committee: Anna Berman, Lindsay Ceballos, Geoff Cebula, Jason Strudler, Susanna Weygandt, Jennifer Wilson.