Slavic Graduate Student Symposium: Views from the Exosphere
Date and Time
Location
Views from the Exosphere: Contemporary Slavic Literature Up Close and From Afar
April 9, 2022
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Harvard Hall 202
To register for this event, please complete this form: https://forms.gle/1vyiDX9zUBU4MKTr6
8 a.m – 9 a.m.: Coffee and breakfast
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Rereading from the Exosphere
Graham Weaver, NYU: A More Interesting Grief: Andrei Platonov as Socialist Realist
Nadezhda Vikulina, Harvard University: Dziga Vertov’s CineEye: Embodying the New Vision”
Alex Droznin, Harvard University: “Moving Around in Darkness: Traumatic Headaches in Ukrainian Postmodernism”
10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Coffee break
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Reperforming from Afar
David Molina, University of Chicago: Mayakovsy and João Bosco «Ну, что ж» in Brazilian Popular Music
Nadezhda Gribkova, University of Illinois at Chicago: Out of Nowhere: Emptiness and Aesthetic Feeling in the Early Works of Collective Actions
Alex Braslavsky, Harvard University: Going Blind in Old Age: The Flexible Eye in Bohumila Grögerová’s Rukopis”
12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.: Catered lunch
2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Remembering across Space and Time
Brett Donohoe, Harvard University: “o lord did you know": Alen Kristić’s Theopoetics of Remembrance and Resignation
Joanna Burdzel, Harvard University: Stimmung and the Émigré: The Early Novels of Manuela Gretkowska
Jack McClelland, McGill University: The Last Letter: The Epistolary and the Past in Contemporary Russian Prose
3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Closing remarks and wrap-up conversation
6 p.m.: Dinner for participants
This conference is made possible by the generous support of the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities.
