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Miami University - The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
http://casnov1.cas.muohio.edu/havighurstcenter
5th Annual International Young Researchers Conference, 27-29 October, 2005
Theme: "Thinking in/after Utopia. East-European and Russian Philosophy
before and after the Collapse of Communism"
Thursday, October 27
5:30-7:00pm
(Public Lecture) - "The End of Leninism and the Future of Liberal Values"
Vladimir TISMANEANU, University of Maryland
Introduction of Conference: Jeffrey HERBST, Provost of Miami University
Introduction of Speaker: Karen DAWISHA, Director of Havighurst Center,
Miami University
Harrison Hall 304
Friday, October 28-Miami Inn, A/B Room
9:00-11:00
Welcome and Introduction to Sessions, Costica BRADATAN
First Session: "Saints, Workers, and Philosophers"
Chair: Aurelian CRAIUTU, Indiana University
Clementa ANTONOVA, Oxford University:
"The Reception of Florensky's Works in Russian and Soviet Scholarship"
Serguei OUSHAKINE, Columbia University/Princeton University:
"From Russian Tragedy to Vital Forces: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity"
Discussant: Stephen NORRIS, Miami University
11:00-11:15
Coffee Break
11:15-1:00
Second Session: "The Secret Charm of Eastern Europe"
Chair: Michael ROULAND, Miami University
Letitia GURAN, College of William & Mary:
"Aesthetics: a Modus Vivendi in East Central Europe?"
Aurelian CRAIUTU, Indiana University:
"Democracy and Philosophy in Eastern Europe: A Tocquevillian Perspective"
Discussant: Brian DANOFF, Miami University
1:00-2:00
Lunch Break
2:00-4:00
Third Session: "Forms of Dissent - Ideology, Poetry, Religion"
Chair: Zara TORLONE, Miami University
Jeffrey STEVENSON MURER, Swarthmore College:
"A Rereading of the Critical Sociology of the Budapest and Frankfurt
Schools"
Natasa KOVACEVIC, University of Florida:
"Orientalizing Communism: The Shifting Boundaries of Europe in Brodsky and
Milosz"
Eva CERMANOVA, Indiana University:
"The Radical Catholicism of Vaclav Benda: An Enfant Terrible of Czech
Dissidence"
Discussant: Zachary WEIR
4:00-5:30
Break
5:30-7:00
(Public Lecture)- "The Platonic Drama of Russian Thought: Ideas against
Ideocracy"
Mikhail EPSTEIN, Emory University
Introduction of Speaker: Steven DELUE, Dean of College of Arts & Sciences,
Miami University
Harrison Hall 111
Saturday, October 29-MacMillan Hall, Great Room
9:00-10:30
Fourth Session: "Dissidence and the Art of Dying"
Chair: Benjamin SUTCLIFFE, Miami University
Veronika TUCKEROVA, Columbia University:
"Totalitarian Language: Fidelius vs. Havel vs. Rorty"
Costica BRADATAN, Miami University:
"Jan Patocka's Socratic Art of Dying"
Discussant: Nick NESBITT, Miami University
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break
10:45-12:15
Fifth Session: "The Politics of Hope"
Chair: William MCKENNA
Ivars IJABS, University of Latvia:
"Politics of Authenticity" and/or Civil Society"
Jonathan LARSON, University of Michigan:
"Critiques of Impure Reason? Contextualizing Postsocialist Slovak
Intellectual Conflict"
Discussant: Venelin GANEV, Miami University
12:15-1:30
Lunch Break
1:30-2:45
(Public Lecture)-- "20th Century Russian Utopian and Dystopian Fiction as
a Mode of Philosophical Discourse"
Catharine NEPOMNYASHCHY, Columbia University
Introduction of Speaker: Margaret ZIOLKOWSKI, Miami University
MacMillan Hall Great Room
Conference is free and open to the public.
Dr. Costica Bradatan
Havighurst Conference Coordinator
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Costica Bradatan, PhD
Department of Philosophy,
Miami University,
Hall Auditorium, 221
Oxford, OH 45056
USA
http://www.users.muohio.edu/bradatc/
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