After Censorship, Before Freedom:
Mapping Contemporary Russian Literature

Workshop Program:

Friday, March 28, 2014

10:00 -10:50      The Postmodernist Novel
Mark Lipovetsky (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Philip Gleissner (Princeton University)

11:00-11:50       The Recycling of the Soviet
Evgeny Dobrenko (University of Sheffield)
Daniil Leiderman (Princeton University)

12:00-12:50       The Ideological Novel
Serguei Oushakine   (Princeton University)
Rad Borislavov (Columbia University)

1:00- 1:50        The Historical Novel
Kevin Platt    (University of Pennsylvania)
Bradley Gorski (Columbia University)

3:00-3:50          Dystopia and Apocalypse
Eliot Borenstein  (New York University)
Maya Vinokur (University of Pennsylvania)

4:00-4:50          The Prose of Magical Historicism
Alexander Etkind (European University Institute)
Pavel Khazanov (University of Pennsylvania)

5:00-5:50          (Auto)Biographical Narratives
Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Natalia Klimova (Princeton University)

Saturday, March 29, 2014.

10:00 -10:50      New Lyrics
Stephanie Sandler (Harvard University)
Dmitry Kuzmin (Princeton University)

11:00 -11:50      Experimental Poetry
Catherine Ciepiela (Amherst College)
David Hock (Princeton University)

12:00-12:50       Narrative Poetry
Ilya Kukulin (Higher School of Economics)
Geoff Cebula (Princeton University)

2:00-2:50         New Drama
Boris Wolfson (Amherst College)
Susanna Weygandt (Princeton University)

3:00-3:50          Petropoetics: The Phenomenology of Oil
Ilya Kalinin (Smolny College, St Petersburg State University)
Katie Holt (Columbia University)

4:00-4:50          Final Discussion