2009 WI-AATSEEL program

AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference

16-17 October 2009

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, October 16, 4:00pm

Keynote Lecture

Pyle Center, Rm. 232

“The Ghost of Shakespeare in Szymborska”

Dr. Anna Frajlich,

Senior Lecturer, Poet

Columbia University

Saturday, October 17

Conference Papers 

Pyle Center, Rm. 232

 Coffee/Tea (8:45-9:00am)

Panel: “Rereading Pushkin: the Poet and his Women”

(9-10:30am) 

Chair: Katie Weigel

Secretary: Antonella Caloro

Amanda Murphy, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

“For Lady Macbeth is the East and I am the Sun? Shakespearean Models for Pushkin’s Marina Mnishek” 

Yelena Lorman, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University

“Poet, Portraiture, and Power”

Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, German and Russian Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame

“Sex, Sin, Seduction, and the Sacred: Pushkin's Gavriiliada as a Meditation on the Risks and Responsibilities of Being a Poet”

10 min coffee break

Panel: “Creative Appropriation in Russian Literature” 

(10:40 am-12:10pm) 

Chair: Stephanie Richards

Secretary: Sergei Karpukhin

Alexander Dolinin, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

“Joys of Annotating.”

David Houston, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lermontov and the Problem of Self-Repetition:  “To the Memory of A. I. Odoevsky” and Sashka

Jessica Wienhold-Brokish, Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Revisiting Moscow and Chekhov: Postcommunist Reframing in Olga Mukhina’s YoU”

LUNCH 1hr 5 min (12:10-1:15pm)

Panel: “Intellectual Dialogue in the Works of Chekhov and Tolstoy”

(1:15-2:45pm)

Chair: Victoria Kononova

Secretary: Lisa Woodson

Maria Hristova, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University

“Degeneration and Madness in Chekhov’s ‘The Black Monk’”

Melissa Miller, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Story of an Unknown Man: Chekhov’s Unknown Response to Tolstoy”

Jesse Stavis, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“‘Refutations of Refutations of Refutations’: Tolstoy, the ‘Landmarks Men,’ and Resurrection”

15 min coffee break

Panel: “Whither Rus’? Recharting Russia’s Past and Future”

(3:00-4:00pm)

Chair: Jesse Stavis

Secretary: Nick Rampton

Darya Ivashniova, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Chto v nei, v etoi pesne? Song as Flight to God in Gogol’s Dead Souls” 

Victoria Kononova, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“A Dying Breed or a Spiritual Model for the New Russia? Vladimir Korolenko’s Writings as a Transitional Moment in the Intelligentsia’s Perception of Old Belief”

Panel: Transcending the Boundaries of Time: Photography and Language in 20^th Century Russian Literature

(4:00-5:00pm)

Chair: Jesse Stavis

Secretary: Nick Rampton

Sarah Kapp, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“The Veshchnost’ of a Poem: A Look at Heidegger’s Notions of (Non)Being and Time in Brodsky’s ‘The Butterfly’ and ‘The Fly’”

Katherine Hill Reischl, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago “Projecting Inward:  Leonid Andreev and the Autochrome Photograph”