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[Inline image 1]Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Princeton University An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference October 18-19 CONCEPTUALIZING THE HUMAN IN SLAVIC AND EURASIAN CULTURE Organized by Alisa Ballard, Emily Wang, and Denis Zhernokleyev, with the graduate students of the Slavic Department. Questions may be sent to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Conference Schedule http://conceptualizingthehuman.wordpress.com/ All Panels, Keynote, and Roundtable will be held in East Pyne 010 FRIDAY October 18th 9:20 am: Brief welcome address First panel: Soviet Humanism (9:30 am – 11:00 am) Laura Brown, Pennsylvania State: “Stravinsky and the Sounds of Human Emotion: A Musical Study of the Human Characteristics of the Puppet Petrushka.” Brian Droitcour, NYU: “Shakespeare for Stalin: Restaging Humanism with Romeo and Juliet” Pavel Khazanov, U Penn: “Pulling a Fast One on the World: Happiness, Immortality and the Problem of Ethics in Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow” Discussant: Robert Bird, U Chicago - 30-minute Break - Second panel: Political Subjectivity (11:30 am – 1:00 pm) Andru Chiorean, University of Nottingham: “Re-Writing the New Man: Censors and Censorship in Stalinist Romania, 1948-1955” Julian Gantt, CUNY Graduate Center: “Oil, Infrastructure, and Personhood in Postwar Azerbaijan” Philip Gleissner, Princeton: “Totalitarian Repression or Carnivalesque Game?: Jiří Kratochvil’s Experience of the Czechoslovak Repressions in the 1950s” Discussant: Serguei Oushakine, Princeton Third Panel: Personhood in Russian Thought (2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) Alexandre Gontchar, Harvard: “Language as a Tomb of Reification: The Problem of the Human in Andrei Platonov’s The Foundation Pit” Maya Larson, University of Oregon: “Why Does the Rusalka Have to Die?: Gippius’ Critique of Necrotheology in Sacred Blood” Keith Walmsley, University of St. Andrews: “The Human in the Writings of A. F. Vel’tman” Discussant: Randall Poole, College of St. Scholastica Keynote: Mikhail Iampolski, NYU: 5:00 pm SATURDAY October 19 Breakfast: 9:00 am Fourth panel: Humans in Space and Time (9:30 am – 11:00 am) Ryan Allen, Cal State LA: “’Time Takes on the Flesh’ in Béla Tarr’s Turin Horse” Lidia Levkovitch, Rutgers: “The Zhungle Book: Place, Body and Language in Iurii Buida’s Story Cycle Zhungli” Matthew Mangold, Rutgers: “People and Place in Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island” Discussant: Julie Buckler, Harvard - 30-minute Break - Fifth panel: Humans and Other Animals (11:30 am –1:00 pm) Geoff Cebula, Princeton: “’Mne zhalko chto ia ne zver”: Animals as Objects of Sorrow and Longing in Oberiu Poetry” Matthew Sutton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne: “The Wild Animal’s Metamorphosis” Abigail Weil, Harvard: “On the Origin of the Specious: Monkey Business with Hašek and Kafka” Discussant: Anindita Banerjee, Cornell Roundtable (2:00 pm – 4:00 pm) Moderator: Devin Fore, Princeton