Russian and East European Studies
Sponsors: Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Russian and East European Studies Department University of Pennsylvania, English Department, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Friday, April 3, 2026 - 10:00am to Saturday, April 4, 2026 - 4:00pm
Wolf Humanities Center, WILL 623
Conference Schedule:
April 3rd
10:00 AM - 11:40 AM: Session #1 Ottoman/Turkic Legacies
(Session discussant: Dr. Rossen Djagalov, NYU)
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM: Session # 2 East Asian/Pacific Frontier
(Session discussant: Dr. D. Brian Kim, U Penn)
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM: Tea with PhDs (ALL are welcome!)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Wine & Cheese Reception, followed by Keynote Dialogue with Dr. Rossen Djagalov (NYU), Dr. Bruno Gomide (U. of S. Paulo), and Olga Nechaeva (U Penn) (ALL are welcome!)
7:00 PM onwards: Poetry Night (Open Mic @ Poetry House, 1126 S. 48th Street)
April 4th
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM: Session # 4 Soviet/Russian Avant-garde
(Session discussant: Olga Nechaeva, PhD Candidate, U Penn)
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM: Session # 5 Contemporary Discourse and Translation in Quasi-Russophone Spaces
(Session discussant: Dr. Kevin M.F. Platt, U Penn)
*All of the above events are open to U penn community; NO prior registration is required
Proudly Sponsored by:
SASGov, Russian and Eastern European Studies Department, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program, Department of English, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, East Asian Language and Civilizations
