Views from the Exosphere: Contemporary Slavic Literature Up Close and From Afar

April 9, 2022

8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Harvard Hall 202

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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.