Transnational Russian Studies - Programme
Thursday 14 Sep 2017
1.30pm-2.00pm Registration (with coffee/tea)
2.00pm-2.15pm Opening remarks: Andy Byford, Durham University
2.15pm-3.30pm Panel 1: Beyond Nation and Empire
- Discussant: Vera Tolz, University of Manchester
- The Empire Strikes East: Russia’s Literary Colonisation of Central Asia, Olga Maiorova, University of Michigan
- Transcultural Archetypes in the Literature of the Pale of Settlement, Amelia Glaser, University of California-San Diego
3.30pm-4.00pm Tea/coffee break
4.00pm-5.15pm Panel 2: Between the Near and the Far Abroad
- Discussant: Tatiana Filimonova, The College of Wooster
- Russian Cultural Wholes and Fragments in the Baltic "Near Abroad", Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania
- The Russophone World in the UK, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, University of Edinburgh
7.00pm Dinner (The Cellar Door)
Friday 15 Sep 2017
10.00am-11.15am Panel 3: Translation across Borders
- Discussant: Oliver Ready, University of Oxford
- Sewing up the World Social System: Translation from/into Russian in the Socialist Camp, Sergey Tyulenev, Durham University & Vitaly Nuriev, Institut iazykoznaniia RAN
- Bringing Books across Borders: Behind the Scenes at Penguin Classics, Cathy McAteer, University of Bristol
11.15am-11.45am Tea/coffee break
11.45am-1.00pm Panel 4: Russian Trans-literature
- Discussant: Siggy Frank, University of Nottingham
- Translingual Russian Émigré Literature: The Peculiar Case of Vladimir Nabokov, Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University
- Found and Lost: Ulitskaya's Daniel Stein, Interpreter as Global Philosophical Novel, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University
1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm-3.15pm Panel 5: Transnational Cinemas
- Discussant: Alastair Renfrew, Durham University
- Russian Cinema Going West (and East): Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad, Stephen M. Norris, Miami University
- Transnationalism as Experience: The Case of Post-Soviet Cinema Dušan Radunović, Durham University
3.15pm-3.45pm Tea/coffee break
3.45pm-5.00pm Panel 6: Russian Trans-cultures
- Discussant: Jennifer Wilson, University of Pennsylvania
- Russian Imperfections: On (Un-)translating and De-westernizing Aesthetic Theory, Ellen Rutten, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Queer Eye for the Russian Guy? Writing about Sexuality in Russia, Connor Doak, University of Bristol
5.30pm-6.30pm
In Conversation: Kirillov across Cultures or The Great Zimbabwean Novel, Tendai Huchu and Jeanne-Marie Jackson
7.00pm Dinner (Hatfield College)
Saturday 16 Sep 2017
9.30am-11.15am Panel 7: Russia Going Global
- Discussant: Valentina Feklyunina, University of Newcastle
- Beyond a World with One Master: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Putin’s 'Sovereign Internet', Michael Gorham, University of Florida
- Retweeting History: RT, the 1917 Revolution Anniversary and the Global Media Landscape, Stephen Hutchings & Vera Tolz, University of Manchester
- Popular-Cultural Information War: Russian-Language Twitter Responses to the 2017 Kiev Eurovision Final, Vitaly Kazakov, University of Manchester
11.15am-11.45am Tea/coffee break
11.45am-1.00pm Round Table: Transnationalising Russian Studies
Chair: Andy Byford, Durham University
Stephen Hutchings, Connor Doak, Vera Tolz, Alastair Renfrew