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RUSSIA'S FIRST TOTAL WAR: The Wars Against Napoleon in Historical and Cultural Perspective

The Mellon Foundation Cross-Cultural Projects Initiative, the Journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, the University of Pennsylvania Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of History, and Department of Romance Languages

Friday, April 20, 2012. Stiteler Hall B 21

9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Welcome

10:00 – 11:30 Keynote Lecture by Dominic Lieven (Cambridge)

11:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break

2:00-5:30 PANEL ONE: THE LEGENDARY WAR

Chair: Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania)

2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Discussant: Donald Sutherland (University of Maryland)

2:20 -- 3:15 Nikolai Promyslov (Russian Academy of Science): The Image of Russia in French Public Opinion and Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812

3:15 – 3:30 Break

3:30 – 4:25 Alan Forrest (The University of York): Russia, the Moscow Campaign and the Making of the Napoleonic Legend

4:25-4:35 Break

4:35-5:30 Alexander M. Martin (University of Notre Dame): “'It Was the Lord’s Will that I Should Not Leave Moscow': J. A. Rosenstrauch’s Memoir of the 1812 War"

 

Saturday, April 21, 2012, Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, 329A

8:45 a.m.– 12:20 p.m. PANEL TWO: RUSSIAN AFTERSHOCKS.

Chair: Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)

8:45 -- 9:05 Discussant: Victoria Frede (Berkeley)

9:05- 10:00 Julie Grandhaye (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon): Russia’s First Total War. Through the Looking-Glass...and what the Decembrists Found There

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15 – 11:10: Victor Taki (University of Alberta): "The Horrors of War": Representations of Violence in the Russian accounts of the Napoleonic and Russo-Turkish Wars"

11:10-11:25 Break

11:25 – 12:20 Dominic Lieven (Cambridge): Russia at War Against Napoleon and the Kaiser: Global Contexts and Comparisons

12:25 - 1:45 Lunch Break

1:45 – 5:20 PANEL THREE: THE TOTAL WAR IN TOLSTOY’S “TOTAL” NOVEL.

Chair: Alexander M. Martin

1:45--2:05 Discussant: Ilya Vinitsky (University of Pennsylvania)

2:05 – 3:00 Olga Maiorova (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Russian National Mythology and Literary Representations of 1812 after War and Peace

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:10 Donna Orwin (University of Toronto): Denis Davydov’s Truth in Tolstoy’s War and Peace

4:10-4:25 Break

4:25 – 5:20 Concluding Remarks