by Greta Matzner-Gore
In just a week you all will be eating beignets in the French Quarter… and I’ll be eating my heart out here at home. In between jazz sessions and bowls of gumbo, make sure to check out the conference’s many exciting papers on Dostoevsky! You can find them below, listed by date, time, and room number.
Friday, February 8
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Session 1-7: Stream 7A: Monopoliphonic/polimonologic Tolstoevsky or Spirited in Flesh (I): Friendship, Suicide and Resurrection in Dostoevsky’s Works
Location: Orleans
Chair: Carol Apollonio, Duke University
“The Philosophical Problem of Friendship in Dostoevsky’s Works”
Justin Trifiro, University of Southern California
“Physical Resurrection in Notes from Underground”
Max Gordon, Northwestern University
“Sudden Suicidal Convulsions in Notes from the House of the Dead”
Amy Ronner, St. Thomas University School of Law
Discussant: Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Session 2-7: Stream 7A: Monopoliphonic/polimonologic Tolstoevsky or Spirited in Flesh (II): The Problem of Gender in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
Location: Orleans
Chair: D. Brian Kim, University of Pennsylvania
“How a Man Killed His Wife: Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata and Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Dead House”
Irina Erman, College of Charleston
“In Defense of Katerina Maslova: Bakhtin and Resurrection”
Erica Drennan, Columbia University
Discussant: Victoria Juharyan, Princeton University
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Session 4-7: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gogol
Location: Endymion
“The Disintegration of Personality: Literary Parallels Between Dostoevsky’s The Double and Gogol’s ‘The Portrait’”
Olga Khometa, University of Toronto
“So…What Is To Be Done About Poor Nastasya in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot?”
Denis Zhernokleyev, Vanderbilt University
Session 4-10: The Language of Space and the Space of Language in (Post-)Soviet Russian Culture
Location: St. Claude
“Space in Contemporary Cinematic Transpositions of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment”
Alexander Burry, Ohio State University
Saturday, February 9
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Session 5-2: Stream 2B: Mimesis in Russian Art and Aesthetic Theory (I)
Location: Ile de France II
Chair: Kit Pribble, University of California at Berkeley
“Dostoevskiian Allegory and the Realist Project”
Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence College
“V romane nado geroiia”: Realist character-systems in Dostoevsky’s Zapiski iz podpol’ia
Chloë Kitzinger, Rutgers University
“Not theatrical, not aesthetic beauty will save the world: Realistic Symbolism and Naturalism on the Stage”
Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College
Discussant: Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University
Session 5-7: Stream 7B: The Russian Medical Humanities (I)
Location: Orleans
Chair: Melissa Miller, University of Notre Dame
“Stavrogin as Syphilitic in Dostoevsky’s Demons”
Brian R. Johnson, Macalester College
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Session 7-10: Graduate Invitational Panel: Feeling Across Borders in 19th-century Russia
Location: St. Claude
Chair: Jinyi Chu, Stanford University
“Identifying Emotional Communities in the Age of Pushkin”
Emily Wang, University of Notre Dame
“Emotions and Cognition in Dostoevsky’s ‘Dream of a Ridiculous Man’”
Victoria Juharyan, Princeton University
Discussant: Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University
5:15 PM – 7:00 PM
Session 8-5: Roundtable: Crime and Punishment: Issues of Teaching and Translation
Location: Frontenac
Chair: Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University
Discussants:
Carol Apollonio, Duke University
Kate Holland, University of Toronto
Katherine Bowers, University of British Columbia
Val Vinokur, The New School
Sunday, February 10
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Session 9-5: Roundtable: Teaching Dostoevsky in the 21st Century
Location: Endymion
Chair: Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University
Discussants:
Amy Ronner, St. Thomas University School of Law
Caroline Lemak Brickman, UC Berkeley
Chloë Kitzinger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Daniel Brooks, Franklin & Marshall College
Katherine Bowers, University of British Columbia
Sean Blink, Yale University
Session 9-6: The Reading and Reception of the Russian Classics in the Late-Soviet Period
Location: Orleans
Chair: Jonathan Wurl, Stanford University
“‘Yes, not to Leningrad, but to Petersburg’: Reading Tsypkin Reading Dostoevsky”
Brett Roark Winestock, Stanford University
Discussant: Alexander Prokhorov, College of William and Mary
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