# Slavic Graduate Student Symposium: Views from the Exosphere #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 9, 2022** 08:00AM - 05:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Harvard Hall 202** 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: 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. --- Attachments- [ image 4.9.22\_symposium.png ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/slavic/files/4.9.22_symposium.png) --- Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://slavic.fas.harvard.edu/node/1431421/event-feed.ics) Copy link link