Please join the Department of Slavic Languages and the Harriman Institute for the annual Princeton-Columbia Slavic Studies Graduate Conference.
Conference Program
10:30am – 12:00pm | Panel 1: Opening Up the Canon: Revising Russophone Classics
Chair: Konstantin Mitroshenkov | Discussant: Chloë Kitzinger
- Abigail Litvak, Between Author and Reader: Dialogism in Leo Tolstoy’s “Three Deaths”
- Aidana Bolat, The Bureaucratic Chronotope: Time, Space, and Consciousness in Nikolai Gogol’s Petersburg Tales
1:00 – 3:00pm | Panel 2: Narrating (Re)Production and the Production of Narrative Modernist Culture
Chair: Aleksandar Momčilović | Discussant: Aleksandar Bošković
- Eric Sanchez, Intervenient Auras—Modern Spiritualism and the Production of Fabula in Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Vane Sister”
- Ewan McPhee, Deskilling as Reskilling: Alexei Gastev’s Labor Pedagogy
- Sofia Guerra, Metabolic Enlightenment: Sustenance, Reproduction, and Reproducibility in Yuri Tynianov’s “Wax Figure”
3:00 – 4:30pm | Panel 3: Imitation, Parody, and the Evolution of Genre from Karamzin to Pushkin
Chair: Zachary Deming | Discussant: Irina Reyfman
- Liam Phillips, Why Did Karamzin Stop Writing Sentimentalist Prose Fiction?
- Taisia Crowley, Virtue Rewarded? Courtship and Parody in Pushkin’s Baryshnya-krest’ianka
5:00 – 6:30pm | Panel 4: The Politics of Instability in 20th Century Russian Prose
Chair: Tatiana Krasilnikova | Discussant: Mark Lipovetsky
- Cary Beehler, Lips, Teeth, and the Subversive Feminine in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We
- Cameron Manley, The Paradox of Authenticity and the (Hopeless) Search for Identity in the Novels of Vladimir Sharov
