2015 Conference Program:

January 11, 2015, 9:00-11:00am

SUN-A-1 Roundtable: Lotman’s War and Lotman’s Peace: Non–Memoirs, Now in English

Location:

Salon E

Organizer:

Evgenii V Bershtein, Reed College

Discussants:

Caroline Lemak Brickman, University of California, Berkeley

Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University

Evgenii V Bershtein, Reed College

Lyubov Golburt, University of California, Berkeley

SUN-A-2 Panel: Women, Performance, and Sexuality in Russian Culture

Location:

Salon D

Organizer:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Chair:

Lisa Woodson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelist:

Colleen Lucey, The University of Arizona

Title:

The Marriage Market and Troubled Unions: Matchmaking in 19th-Century Russian Art and Literature

Panelist:

Natalia Dame, University of Southern California

Title:

Russia in Distress or the Tortured Virgins in the Russian Satirical Journals of 1905-1906

Panelist:

Teresa Polowy, The University of Arizona

Title:

Performance in the Fiction and Music of Writer-Singer Nataliia Medvedeva

Discussants:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

SUN-A-3 Panel: Chekhov and the Embodied Mind: Emotion, Memory, Nerves

Location:

Salon C

Organizer:

Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Chair:

Cate Reilly, Princeton University

Panelist:

Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title:

"Strung Out: Chekhov's Neurasthenics and Nineteenth Century Theories of Nervous Shock"

Panelist:

Melissa Miller, Colby College

Title:

"On Blue-legged Psyches: Chekhov's Response to Zola's Therese Raquin"

Discussants:

Jefferson Gatrall, Montclair State University

January 11, 2015, 12:00-2:00pm

SUN-B-1 Panel: Limbs and Liminality in Post-/Soviet Women's Writing

Location:

Port of New York

Organizer:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Chair:

Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University

Panelist:

Daniel Brooks, Mount Holyoke College

Title:

Living from Hand to Foot: Boldily Synecdoches in Chukovskaya's Sof'ia Petrovna

Panelist:

Christina Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Spaces of Author(ity) in Stepanova's Proza Ivana Sidorova

Panelist:

Caroline Lemak Brickman, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Negotiating the Corpus in Contemporary Verse

Panelist:

Natalie McCauley, University of Richmond

Title:

Bodies of Power: Agency, Influence, and Physicality in Ulitskaya's Vesyelie pokhoroni

Discussants:

Elise Thorsen

SUN-B-2 Panel: Languages of Phenomenology: Semiotics, Acting, Communication in the Work of Shpet and Bakhtin

Location:

Port of Hong Kong

Organizer:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

Panelist:

Cate Reilly, Princeton University

Title:

Towards a Semiotic Philosophy of Culture? Gustav Shpet’s Phenomenology of Language and Collective Hermeneutics

Panelist:

Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University

Title:

Characters without Insides and Actors without an Audience in Gustav Shpet’s Phenomenology of Theater

Panelist:

Denis Zhernokleyev, Vanderbilt University

Title:

Bakhtin’s King Lear as The Aging Hamlet Who Has Finally Discovered What It Means To Be

Discussants:

Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California

SUN-B-3 Panel: The North American Dostoevsky Society

Location:

Salon C

Organizer:

Carol Apollonio, Duke University

Chair:

Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University

Panelist:

Brian Armstrong, Augusta University

Title:

"Philosophical Duel/Delusion in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground"

Panelist:

Jillian Porter, New York University

Title:

Dostoevsky's Money

Panelist:

Katherine Bowers, The University of British Columbia

Title:

The Heroine, the Prince, and the Chase: Deconstructing Dostoevsky's Gothic Narrative Force

Discussants:

Carol Apollonio, Duke University

SUN-B-4 Roundtable: Author-Translators in Slavic Literary Traditions

Location:

Salon D

Organizer:

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair:

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Discussants:

D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Maria Khotimsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University

Vitaly Chernetsky, University of Kansas