Constructivist Criticism Graduate Student Workshop

The Constructivist Criticism Workshop is a colloquium for graduate students in social sciences and humanities, studying Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus to present works in progress. The workshop is organized by a group of graduate students working in the broader Eurasia region, spread across the Comparative Literature, History and Anthropology departments at the University of Pennsylvania. We will discuss the following papers, which will be circulated in advance of the meeting. 
 
**please email sthelen@sas.upenn.edu to receive the pre-circulated papers**
 
Making a Home for the Soviet People: World War II and the Evolution of Soviet Identity 
Anna Whittington, History, University of Michigan
Discussant: Kelsey Norris, PhD Candidate in History, UPenn
 
Famine and Feast: Images of Food Insecurity from Leo Tolstoy to Lidia Ginzburg 
Svetlana Tcareva, Slavic Languages and Litearatures, Yale University
Discussant: Anne Lounsbery, Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Department Chair, NYU
 
Eighteenth-Century “Chichikovs” and Purchasing “Runaway Souls" 
Andrey Gornostaev, History, Georgetown University
Discussant: Jennifer Wilson, Post-doctoral Fellow in Russian and Eastern European Studies, UPenn
 
Pan-Slavism and Communism: The Rise and Fall of Czech Nationalism, 1848 to 1948
Mathias Fuelling, History, Temple University
Discussant: Peter Steiner, Professor Emeritus of Russian and Eastern European Studies, UPenn
 
The workshop is made possible by the support of the Lauder Institute, SASGov, the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and the Department of Russian and East European Studies.