Pushkin Beyond Europe: An International
Conference
held at Pennsylvania State University,
October 23-24, 1999
The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures was
pleased to host an international conference, "Pushkin Beyond Europe," on
October 23-24, 1999. The conference was devoted to global aspects
of Pushkin's legacy, such as his reception in non-European countries, his
African heritage, and his relation to the colonialized minorities of the
Russian Empire. All events took place at the Atherton Hotel.
For more information, please contact Adrian Wanner at ajw3@psu.edu.
PROGRAM
Saturday, October 23
8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00
Welcoming Remarks by Gerhard Strasser, Head, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, and Michael Naydan, Director, Program of Slavic and East European Languages
9:15-9:45
First Keynote Speech.
Speaker: Roman Timenchik (Jerusalem)
10:00-12:00 Panel 1: Pushkin and the
Caucasus Chair: William Schmalstieg (Penn State) Harsha Ram (UC Berkeley) Pushkin's Caucasian Adventure: The Paradigm and Its Future
Adrian Wanner (Penn State) The Prisoner of the Caucasus
and its Epilogue: Pushkin's Endorsement of Russian Imperialism?
Andreas Schönle (U of Michigan) Letters of a Russian
Jester: The Vexing “Journey to Arzrum” as a Rejoinder to Karamzin Katya Hokanson (U of Oregon) Onegin's
Journey: The Orient Revisited
12-1 pm
Lunch
1:15-1:45
Second Keynote
Speech. Speaker: Georges Nivat (Geneva)
2:00-3:30
Panel 2:
Pushkin's Global Reception
Chair: Christopher Lemelin (Bucknell U)
Angela Brintlinger (Ohio State U) Pushkin on Display: Moscow and Paris, 1937
Carol Ueland (Drew U) Pushkin and the Russian
Emigre Community in China
Aminadav Dykman (Penn State) Pushkin's Reception
in Israel
3:30-5:00
Panel
3: Pushkin's Blackness
Chair: James Roney (Juniata College)
Michael Naydan (Penn State) Marina Tsvetaeva on Pushkin’s Blackness
Caryl Emerson (Princeton U) Pushkin's Ethiopian Great-Grandfather:
The Opera
Olga Peters Hasty (Princeton U) Pushkin in the Harlem Renaissance
7:30 pm
Dinner
Sunday, October 24
9 am
Breakfast
9:30-10
Third
Keynote Speech. Speaker: Vadim Skuratovsky (Kiev)
10:15-11:45
Panel 4: Pushkin in the Context of Russian
and World Culture
Chair: Madhu Malik (Bucknell U)
Robert Bird (Dickinson College) Pushkin and the Hermeneutics
of Russian Culture
Linda Ivanits (Penn State) Pushkin’s “Folklore” and
Dostoevsky:
The Case of “The Landlady”
Svetlana Evdokimova (Brown U) The Anatomy of the Modern Man
in Pushkin's “Little Tragedies"
12-1
Lunch
All events took place at the Atherton Hotel, 125 S. Atherton
Street,
State College, PA 16801.
This conference was organized by the Department of Germanic and Slavic
Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature,
with the Support of the College of Liberal Arts, the Institute for the
Arts and Humanistic Studies, and the Office of International Programs.
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