From: Kate Holland <[log in to unmask]>
Slavic Theory Today: Between History and System
Yale University
March 1-2, 2002
The purpose of the two-day symposium at Yale is to reexamine the legacy of a
number of Slavic literary theorists and critics whose ideas can contribute
to
a contemporary debate about the relation between theory and history in
humanistic studies. The participants: Vladimir Alexandrov, Svetlana Boym,
Jonathan Culler, Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Epstein, Victor Erlich, Paolo
Fabbri,
Boris Gasparov, Michael Holquist, Mikhail Iampolski, Vadim Liapunov,
John Mackay, Gary Saul Morson, Irina Paperno, Gerald Prince, Brian Poole,
Harsha Ram, Peter Steiner, David Shepherd, Galin Tihanov, Michael Wachtel,
Alexander Zholkovsky. All events are free and open to the public.
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT, 06520.
T. (203)432-8267; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Conference Program
Friday, March 1
10am-- noon Panel One, "Translating Discourses: Literature, Historiography,
Science"Peter Steiner, "Linguistic Turn in Russian historiography: Gustav
Shpet's 'History as a Subject-matter of Logic"
Harsha Ram, "Drawing the Line: Discipline Boundaries and Geographical
Peripheries in Eurasian theory and literary practice."
Paolo Fabbri, "Translating Text Forces: Literature and Science."
Discussant: Vladimir Alexandrov
1:15pm- 3:15pm Panel Two, "The Legacy of Slavic Theory: Poetics and
Narratology"
Jonathan Culler, "The Form of Formalism."
Gerald Prince, "Formalism and Narratology"
+Michael Wachtel, "How to Read a Poem: Jakobson, Lotman, Gasparov."
Discussant: Victor Erlich
4pm- 6pm Panel Three, "Bakhtin: Pro and Contra"
Caryl Emerson, " Bakhtin after the Boom: some contested moments and where
they might lead."
Gary Saul Morson "Narrativeness"
David Shepherd, "Bakhtin in/and Crisis"
Brain Poole, "Bakhtin and the Goal of Cultural Studies"
Discussant: Michael Holquist
Saturday, March 2
10am- 12pm Panel Four "Slavic Theory in Europe: Influence, Relation,
Mediation"
Svetlana Boym, "From Art of Estrangement to Poetics of Unfreedom:
Schklovsky, Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt"
Galin Tikhanov, "Why Did Modern Literary Theory Originate in Central and
Eastern Europe?"
Boris Gasparov, "Semiotic Order: Yurii Lotman's Vision of Culture and French
semiotic Revolution."
Vadim Liapunov, (the title is forthcoming)
Discussant: John Mackay
1pm- 3pm Panel Five "Poetry, Theory, Form"
Alexander Zholkovsky, "Poetry of Grammar, Pragmatics of Poetry."
Mikhail Iampolski, "Poetics as Politics: Pumpiansky and Others".
Mikhail Epstein, "From Post- to Proto-: On the New Trends in the
humanities."
Discussant: Irina Paperno
3:30pm- 5:30pm Roundtable "The Future of the Humanities in the Context of
Globalization."
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