Slavic Spring Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania
Global Russian Culture
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/events/slavic_symposium/Global_Russian_Culture/index.html
April 19 - 20, 2013
Program
Friday, April 19, 2013
Stiteler Hall, Rm. B21
9:00 Coffee
9:30-11:30—Session I: Hyphenated Russians and Americans
Chair: Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania
Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania, ""I have Been Her Familiar Guest & Visitor for More Than Forty Years": The Life and Opinions of Alexis Eustaphieve, a Don Cossack and the First Russian Consul in Boston."
Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University, "Tell Me Your Story: Russian-American Writing and the Commoditization of Immigration"
Adrian Wanner, Pennsylvania State University, "Global Russians: The Case of Michael Idov".
Discussant: Jim English, University of Pennsylvania
11:30—12:30—Lunch (conference participants only)
12:40 – 2:40—Session II: Writing and Seeing Diaspora
Chair: Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania
Eugene Ostashevsky, "Puns, Piracy, and Пиздецъ: The Transnational in Russian American Poetry", New York University
Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts, “Émigrés, Homecomers, Tourists: The Wandering Jews of Soviet and Diasporic Russian Cinema.”
Alex Moshkin, University of Pennsylvania, “Film as Palimpsest: An Aesthetic Dissection of Kalik’s And the Wind Returneth”
Discussant: Philip Gleissner, Princeton University
2:40-3:00—Coffee Break
3:00-5:00—Session III: Plenary Discussion: Global Russian Culture—Open Research Questions
Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University, Moderator
5:30pm-7:15pm Keynote Lecture, in Fisher-Bennett Hall, Rm. 401
Kirill Medvedev, St. Petersburg, with Keith Gessen, n+1 magazine, New York
"It's No Good: Contemporary Russian Literature, Politics, and Protest"
Saturday, April 20
Cherpak Lounge, Williams Hall, 5th Floor
9:30: Coffee
10:00-12:00—Session IV: The Soviet Periphery and the Post-Soviet Near Abroad
Chair: Monica Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Lisa Yountchi, University of Pennsylvania, “Beyond Mere Translation: Abulqasim Lahuti, Soviet Tajik Translators, and the Nature of Russian-Iranian Cultural Exchange”
Dirk Uffelmann, University of Passau (Germany), “Prosumers of the Russian Internet in Central Asia”
Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania, “Hegemony Without Dominance: Russian Culture in the Near Abroad”
Discussant: Rossen Djagalov, University of Pennsylvania
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