2007: Slavic Historical Mythologies

SLAVIC HISTORICAL MYTHOLOGIES
 
April 27, 2007 
 
PROGRAM
 
All conference panels too be held in the Max Kade Center, 
3401 Walnut St., Rm. 329A 
(34th and Walnut St., above the Starbucks)
 
9:45-10:00 Opening remarks
 
10:00-12:00 Panel I: Medieval
 
Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University, “The ‘Unclean People’ of the Revelations of Pseudo-Methodios of Patara in the Povest’ vremennykh let”
 
Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania, “Myths about Myths: the Makeover of the Slavic Sibylline Prophecies”
 
Michael Pesenson, Swarthmore College, “Changing Perceptions of the Antichrist in Russian Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to the Silver Age”
 
Discussant: Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
 
1:00-3:00 Panel II: Nineteenth Century
 
Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania. “Russian Glubbdubdrib: Dimitry’s Shade and the Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism”
 
Katerina Clark, Yale University, “The Cult of Byron in 1930s Russia”
 
Galin Tihanov, Lancaster University, “Organicity: towards the history of a discourse”
 
Discussant: Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania
 
3:15-5:15 Panel III: Twentieth Century
 
Mark Steinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
“Wandering in Shattered Time: The Mythic Melancholy of Lost Pasts,Ruined Presents, and Catastrophic Futures”
 
David Brandenberger, Richmond University, "The Great Retreat: Stalin’s Cooption of Russian Historical Myths in the Eyes of the Left Intelligentsia.”
 
Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, "Princeton’s Boris Godunov (April 2007): Russian myths meet American realities—and resources”
 
Discussant: Peter Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
 
5:30-7:30 Dinner Reception, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 135