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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 Petrushevksaya's Magical Stories.
Discussant: Helena Goscilo (Ohio State University)
Program Committee:
Anna Berman, Lindsay Ceballos, Geoff Cebula, Jason Strudler, Susanna
Weygandt, Jennifer Wilson.
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