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1:00-2:45 Pm THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016 Disc.: Simon Franklin, U of Cambridge (UK) 1-03 Romantic Slavophilism, Theurgic Cognition, and Neo-Medievalist Challenge to Modernism - Delaware B Registration Desk Hours: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM – Lobby Level Chair: Vladimir Leonidovich Marchenkov, Ohio U Exhibit Hall Hours: 4:00 – 8:00 PM – Exhibit Hall A Papers: Jennie Wojtusik, U of Texas at Austin Cyber Café: 4:00 – 8:00 PM – Exhibit Hall A "Slavophilism and Naturphilosophie: A New Mythology for Constructing National Identity" Kåre Johan Mjør, Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies ASEEES Board Meeting – 8AM – 12:00 PM (Meeting) - Harding (Sweden) East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections – 8AM – 12:00 PM "Creation and Creativity in the Philosophy of Vladimir Solov'ev" (Meeting) – Jackson Andrea Oppo, Pontifical U of Sardinia (Italy) THATCamp – 9:00AM – 12:00 PM – Thurgood Marshall West "Time and Discontinuity: Pavel Florensky’s Concept of Aesthetic Realism" Disc.: Thomas Seifrid, U of Southern California Session 1 – Thursday – 1:00-2:45 pm 1-04 Boris Akunin’s Creative Work and its Implementation - Harding Chair: Yekaterina Cotey, U of Texas at Austin 1-01 All-consuming Anxiety: Social Rituals and Consumer Goods in Late Papers: Robert Mulcahy, College of William & Mary 19th Century Russia - Coolidge "Murder on the Open Seas: Constricting Space and Manipulating Chair: Matthew P. Romaniello, U of Hawai'i at Manoa Time in Akunin’s Leviafan" Papers: Amanda Brickell Bellows, UNC at Chapel Hill Bradley Agnew Gorski, Columbia U "Selling Servitude, Captivating Consumers: Images of Bondsmen "Socialist Realism Inside Out: Boris Akunin and Mass Literature in American and Russian Advertisements, 1880-1915" for the Elite" Tricia Starks, U of Arkansas Natalia Erlenkamp, U of Passau (Germany) "Smoking as Signifier in Imperial Russia" "The Cross-Media Marketing Strategies of the ‘Project Boris Audra Jo Yoder, Independent Scholar Akunin’" "Peasants into Tea Drinkers" Disc.: Elena V. Baraban, U of Manitoba (Canada) Disc.: Sally West, Truman State U 1-05 Gender and Sexuality in 19C Russian Literature & Art - (Roundtable) 1-02 Global Rus: International Connections in the High and Late Middle - Hoover Ages - Delaware A Chair: Jennifer Louise Wilson, U of Pennsylvania Chair: Alexandra Vukovich, U of Cambridge (UK) Part.: Connor Brian Doak, U of Bristol (UK) Papers: Monica Morrison White, U of Nottingham (UK) Allison Leigh, The Cooper Union "Trade and Migration between Late Byzantium and Early Emily Wang, Princeton U Muscovy" Jennifer Louise Wilson, U of Pennsylvania Yulia Mikhailova, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology "Rus and the Crusades: Unanswered Questions, Tentative Answers, 1-06 Ideas as Contagion: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetics of Catastrophe and Tantalizing Hints" Ethics of Excess - Jackson Inna Nikolaevna Kuzina, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Chair: Charles Schlacks, Charles Schlacks, Publisher Olga Viktorovna Zelentsova, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Papers: Slobodanka Millicent Vladiv-Glover, Monash U (Australia) "Pre-Mongol Suzdalia between the West, the Orient, and the Baltic: "Ideas as Contagion in Dostoevsky’s The Possessed and the An Archaeological Perspective" Unrepresentable ‘Real’" 1 Géza Horváth, U of Pannonia (Hungary) Disc.: Rachel Applebaum, Tufts U "Dostoevsky’s Idea of the Golden Age: Modern Subjectivity in Poetic and Philosophical Perspective (from Besy to Podrostok)" 1-10 Left Histories, Left Readings: Approaching Institutions from Below in Edward Ascroft, Monash U (Australia) (late) Socialism - Madison B "Ethics as Excess in Dostoevsky’s ‘The Eternal Husband’" Chair: Marina Antic, Indiana U Bloomington Disc.: Brian Charles Egdorf, UC Berkeley Papers: Goran Music, Karl-Franzens-U Graz (Austria) Milan Orlic, Monash U (Australia) "LCY's Central Committee 13th Session: Echoes on the Shop Floor" 1-07 Pavel Pavlovich Muratov: An Aperture into Modernity - Jefferson Rory Archer, Karl-Franzens-U of Graz (Austria) Chair: Hans J Rindisbacher, Pomona College "Gendered and Classed Attitudes Towards the Institutions of Self- Papers: Xenia Muratova, Centro Internazionale di Studi Pavel Muratov (Italy) Management in Late Yugoslav Socialism" "The Work on the Site Pavel Muratov" Ognjen Kojanic, U of Pittsburgh Jakub Koguciuk, Yale U "Railway Workers' Memories of Geographical and Social Mobility "P.P. Muratov and Venice in the Renaissance" in Socialist Yugoslavia" Lena Maria Lencek, Reed College Disc.: Chiara Bonfiglioli, U of Pula (Croatia) "Rapture, Ecstasy, and Bliss: Responses from the Heart in the Aesthetic System of P.P. Muratov’s Obrazy Italii/'Images of Italy'" 1-11 Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda: Visual Culture, Teaching and Disc.: Elizabeth Ransome, Harvard U Digital Humanities - (Roundtable) - Marriott Balcony A Rimgaila E. Salys, U of Colorado at Boulder Chair: Page Herrlinger, Bowdoin College Part.: David Matthew Borgmeyer, St Louis U 1-08 Emotions in Russian Literature I - Johnson Kevin Michael Kain, U of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chair: Valeria Sobol, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wolfram Von Scheliha, U of Leipzig (Germany) Papers: Alisa Ballard, Ohio State U "Performing Emotions, Spectating Emotions in the Theater of 1-12 Post-communist Corruption - Marriott Balcony B Nikolai Evreinov" Chair: Keith Darden, American U Jehanne M Gheith, Duke U Papers: Ellie Knott, London School of Economics (UK) "Reading Emotions through Russian Literature: End of Life Work Daniel Brett, Open U (UK) with Clients and Families" "Beyond Identity Politics and Geopolitics: Dirty Politics as an Luke William Franklin, U of Kansas Explanation for the Waning of Support for Europeanization in "Melancholia and Aphasia in Chekhov's "Little Trilogy": Moldova" Communicating Loss and Lack" Sabina Pavlovska-Hilaiel, U of Denver Disc.: Nicole C. Svobodny, Washington U in St Louis "Corruption and Civil Society in the Post-communist World" Alexandra Vasileva, U of Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1-09 Crossing and Creating Borders in the Postwar USSR - Madison A "Trapped in Informality: How Small Firms Contribute to the Chair: Zbigniew Adam Wojnowski, Nazarbayev U (Kazakhstan) Maintenance of Russia's Statist-Patrimonial Political Economy" Papers: Seth Bernstein, NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia) Disc.: Matthew Aaron Light, U of Toronto (Canada) "Return to the Motherland: Repatriation to the USSR after the Death of Stalin" 1-18 Translation as Global Conversation Panel 1: Global Perspectives in Mayhill C. Fowler, Stetson U Slavic Translation Studies - McKinley "Theater, War and New Borders: Entertaining the Troops on the Chair: Kristen Welsh, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Frontlines of Socialism" Papers: Ines Garcia de la Puente, Ohio State U Erik R. Scott, U of Kansas "Translating Oral Traditions in Rus'" "The Geography of Loyalty: Defection in the Soviet Borderlands" David L. Cooper, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2 "How is Translation Like Forgery? What We Might Really Learn Kanovich Absorb the Post-Stalinist Empire" from Studying Pseudotranslation" Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, U of Latvia (Latvia) Roman Ivashkiv, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Myth of a ‘Baltic Brotherhood’ Within the Soviet Writers' "What Is Illuminated in Translation? Jonathan Safran Foer's Community" Transmetic Novel and its Ukrainian, Russian and Cinematic Disc.: Ilya Kukulin, NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia) Translations" Disc.: James D. West, U of Washington 1-22 Alternative Approaches to the Study of Leskov: a Spectrum of Possibilities - Park Tower Room 8210 1-19 (Not Turgenev’s or Tolstoy’s) Living Corpse - Park Tower Room 8205 Chair: Irina Reyfman, Columbia U Chair: Vadim Shneyder, UCLA Papers: Olga Meerson, Georgetown U Papers: Brian Oches, Indiana U Bloomington "Leskov vs. His Narrators--Beyond Skaz" "Voinitsky and the Strange Case of the Paratextual Resurrection" Olga Y. Maiorova, U of Michigan Elizabeth Frances Geballe, Indiana U Bloomington "Finding Russianness in Imperial Space: The Paradoxes of "All Human Inscriptions are Epitaphs: Bunin’s Corpse Cases" Leskov’s Novella “At the Edge of the World”" Sean Blink, Yale U Maya Kucherskaya, NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia) "Beheading the Empire: Who Dies and How in Hadji Murat" "There is a Court, There is No Truth: New Sources of Leskov's Disc.: Svitlana Krys, MacEwan U (Canada) story "Episcopal Justice"" Matthew Walker, Brown U Disc.: Ilya Vinitsky, U of Pennsylvania 1-20 Radical Politics, Radical Selves I: Subduing the Radical Self in the 1-23 Global Forms, Russia(n) Fetishes: Western Theory and 19th Century: Negotiation, Abnegation, Ideology - Park Tower Room Contemporary Poetic Practice - (Roundtable) - Park Tower Room 8211 8206 Chair: David Hock, Princeton U Chair: Pavel Khazanov, U of Pennsylvania Part.: Marijeta Bozovic, Yale U Papers: Robert Harris, U of Oxford (UK) Anastasiya Osipova, New York U "What is to Be Done? Herzen's Struggle with Radical Politics and Matvei Yankelevich, Ugly Duckling Presse his Non-Radical Self" Jason Andrew Cieply, Stanford U Maya Vinokour, U of Pennsylvania David Hock, Princeton U "Abstinence Only: Tolstoyan (Self-)Discipline and the Russian Fin de Siècle" 1-24 Crafted Souls: Authors, Fictions, Societies - Park Tower Room 8212 Alexander Marlen Groce, Harvard U Chair: Halyna Hryn, Harvard U "Tell Herzen not to scold me so, lest I unsubscribe - Alexander Papers: Taras Koznarsky, U of Toronto (Canada) Herzen's Illiberal Readership and Radical Re-adjustment" "Gogol’s Soul" Disc.: Lynn E. Patyk, Dartmouth College Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford U "“The Undivided Soul:”
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