On October 28-29, the Harriman Institute held the conference The Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry: Performances and Forms.

Program

Day One

Friday, October 28, 2022

9:45-10:00am | Welcoming Remarks

Mark Lipovetsky and Luba Golbert

10:00am-1:00pm | Performances I

Moderator: Luba Golbert (UC Berkeley)

• Ilya Vinitsky (Princeton University): “The Court Poet”
• Kirill Ospovat (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “The Orator Poet”
• Mikhail Makeev (Moscow): “Poets of the Nekrasov School and Their Opponents”

2:00-4:00pm | Forms I

Moderator: Catherine Ciepiela (Amherst College)

• Boris Maslov (University of Oslo): “Theories of Poetic Form”
• Nila Friedberg (Portland University): “Versification”

4:00-5:30pm | Reception

6:00-9:00pm | Screening of Boris and Discussion

Special event with Dmitry Krymov

Day Two

Saturday, October 29, 2022

9:30-11:00am | Performances II

Moderator: Stephanie Sandler (Harvard University)

• Sibelan Forrester (Swarthmore College): “The Woman Poet”
• Isobel Palmer (University of Birmingham): “Performed Poetry”

11:30am-1:30pm | Performances III

Moderator: Catherine Ciepiela

• Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University): “The Soviet Poet”
• Gleb Morev (Berlin): “Poet as Public Intellectual”

2:30-4:30pm | Forms II

Moderator: Stephanie Sandler

• Irina Reyfman (Columbia University): “Verse Forms”
• Michael Wachtel (Princeton University): “Long/Narrative Poems”

5:00-6:00pm | Concluding Session

Joint Discussion on Forms and Performances

Event Videos

Day 1

Special Event with Dmitry Krymov

Day 2