CONFERENCE: Canadian Association of Slavists
Zenon M. Feszczak
Something of potential interest to the scholars out there.
Please note that this a preliminary program.
That is, subject to sudden and violent change.
But isn't that what we love about the Slavic world?
Зенон М. Фещак
Zenon M. Feszczak
Enslaved Slavist
>Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:42:57 -0500 (EST)
>From: Nina Kolesnikoff <kol...@mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA>
>
>Dear CAS Member,
>Enclosed is a preliminary CAS programme. If you are on it, please check
>the title of your paper and let me know if everything is correct.
>
>I need your help in assigning chairs for most of the sessions. Please
>let me know, if you are willing to chair any specific panel. Thank you.
>
> CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS/
> ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES SLAVISTES
>
> PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
> 28 - 30 MAY, 1996
> BROCK UNIVERSITY
>
>27 MAY, 1996
>
>7:00 - 9:00 PM CAS Executive Meeting
>
>28 MAY, 1996
>
>9:00 - 10:45 AM
>
>JOINT CAS/CAECS SESSION: UNION OF BREST
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Myroslaw Tataryn
> "The Union of Brest: Conflicting Ecclesiologies"
> Russel Moroziuk
> "Union of Brest: Berayal or Self-Determination"
> Alexander Baran
> "The Florentine Influence on the Union of Brest"
> Peter Galadza
> "The Liturgical Question on the Eve of the Union of
> Brest and the Development of 'Uniate' Worship during
> the 17th Century"
> Roman Yereniuk
> "The Union ater the Union: Lviv, Peremysl, Lutsk"
>
>NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND MUSIC
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Robert Karpiak, U of Waterloo
> "Don Juan 'In the Russian Manner': Chekhov's Platonov
> and Ivanov"
> Mary Woodside, U of Guelph
> "'Adapted to our Customs': Musical Procedures in
> Nineteenth-Century Russian Vaudevilles"
> Gust Olson, U of Alberta
> "From Page to Stage: The Transformation of Turgenev's
> Fathers and Sons into George F. Walker's Nothing Sacred
>
>SOVIET HISTORY AND CULTURE I
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Robert Heynen, U of Alberta
> "Stalinist Historical Culture"
> Lilia Avrutin, U of Alberta
> "Film as Ritual: Toward the Semiotic Anthropology
> of Soviet Culture"
> Katya Nizharadze, Georgetown U
> "The House of Government - The House of the Bolshevik
> Heroes, New Elites, 1925-1935"
>
>11:00 - 12:45
>
>ROLE OF THE "NORTH" IN THE CULTURAL AWAKENING OF 17TH-18TH
>CENTURY RUSSIA
>Chair: Richard Pope, York U
>Papers: Marina Swoboda, McGill
> "The Place of Novgorod in Ivan Timofeyev's 'Vremennik'"
> Maria Salomon-Arel, U of Windsor
> "Muscovites Xenophobia Reconsidered: Anglo-Russian
> Interaction in the Decades after the Times of Troubles"
> Steven Uusitalo, McGill
> "Lomonosov and the North"
>
>EDUCATION IN SIBERIA
>Chair: Norman Pereira, Dalhousie U
>Papers: Nicole Young, U of Toronto
> "The Education of Siberian Non-Orthodox Populations
> in Tobol'sk Guberniia, 1850-1914"
> Alexia Bloch, U of Pittsburgh
> "Envisioning 'Modern' Identities: Indigenous Siberian
> Boarding Schools, 1926-1995"
> Mary Ann Van Meenen, Acadia U
> "Perspectives on Soviet and Canadian Education Policies
> for Arctic Native People"
>
>THE DRAMA OF MODERN DRAMA IN CENTRAL EUROPE
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Tamara Trojanowska, U of Chicago
> "Getting Even with History: Polish Drama in Search
> of a New Perspective"
> Veronika Ambros, U of Toronto
> "Modern Czech Drama in Search of Expression"
> Elena Siemens, U of Alberta
> "Russian Post-Glasnost Theatre"
>
>UKRAINIAN ARCHIVES IN CANADA
>Chair: Frances Swyripa, U of Alberta
>Panelists:Myron Momryk, National Archives of Canada
> Iroida Wynnyckyj, Ukrainian Canadian Research Centre
> Zenon Hluszok, Ukrainian Cultural & Educational Centre
> Alexander Makar, Ukrainian Canadian Archives
> Irene Jendzjowsky, Provincial Archives of Edmonton
>
>1:30 - 3:15 PM
>
>THE BREAK OF YUGOSLAVIA AND SUBSEQUENT CIVIL WAR
>Chair: N. Pasic, Serbian Heritage Academy
>Papers: N. Pasic, Serbian Heritage Academy
> "The Break-Up of Yugoslavia and International Law"
> S. Bosnich, U of New Brunswick
> "Covert and Overt Foreign Intervention"
> M. Milenkovitch, Lehman College
> "What is to be Done to Ensure a Lasting Peace?"
> D. Mirkovic, Brandon
> "Croatian Operation 'Storm', Ethnic Cleansing, and the
>End of Republika Srpska Krajina"
>
>GENDER AND BODY IN RUSSIAN CULTURE
>Chair: Anthony Vanchu, U of Texas
>Papers: Sarah Kaderabek, McGill
> "Body as Metaphor in Igor Iarkevich's Short Stories"
> Serafima Roll, McGill
> "Gender Politics in Russian Women Prose"
> Peter Wasylyk, McGill
> "Subversion of Patriarchal Ideology in Egor Radov's
> Zmeesos"
>
>UKRAINIAN LITERATURE
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Dushan Bednarsky, U of Alberta
> "Theory of Language and the Neo-Platonic Soul in
> the Sermons of Dmytro Tuptalo"
> Victor Buyniak, U of Saskatchewan
> "Catherine II as Seen in Shevchenko's Works"
> Walter Smyrniw, McMaster
> "Vasyl Tulevitriv's Dumy i pisni"
>
>3:30 - 5:15 PM
>
>RUSSIAN HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Olga Glagoleva, CREES
> "From the Present Crisis of the Russian Intelligentsia
> back to the Roots: A.T. Bolotov's Personality in the
> Historical Context"
> Karen Taylor, Georgetown
> "The Revue des deux mondes and the Literary Figures
> Nicolaevan Russia"
> Jeff Veidlinger, Georgetown
> "Resurrection without Death: Apocalyptic Visions in
> Nineteenth Century Russia"
>
>REREADING BRUNO SZULC
>Chair: Louis Iribarne, U of Toronto
>Papers: Norm Ravvin, U of Toronto
> "Bruno Szulc and the North American Jewish Imagination"
> Rimma Volynska, Brock
> "The Writers of 'Spring': Stylistic Interpretation
> of Bruno Szulc's 'Wiosna'"
> Diana Kuprel
> "Bruno Szulc and Tadeusz Kantor: Repetition and Recollection"
> Louis Iribarne, U of Toronto
> "On Translating Bruno Szulc"
>
>UKRAINIANS ON TWO FRONTIERS: CANADA AND BRAZIL, 1890-1930
>Chair: Connie Wawruck-Hemmett, Dalhousie U
>Panelists: Stella Hryniuk, U of Mannitoba
> Jack Lehr, U of Winnipeg
> Jeff Picknicki
>
>29 MAY, 1996
>
>9:00 - 10:45 AM
>
>TAMING THE WILD FRONTIER IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: David Davis, U of Waterloo
> "Western Canada as a Model for Development for
> the Development of Siberia, 1890-1917"
> Leonard Friesen, Wilfrid Laurier U
> "Sheep Husbandry and Land Use in the New Russian
> Frontier, 1780-1870"
> Jeff Sahadeo, U of Illinois
> "Settler Colonialism on the Russian Frontier:
> Local Power in Tashkent, 1910-20"
>
>NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Allan Reid, U of New Brunswick
> "Art and the Artist in Three Stories by Gogol"
> Ilia Pomeranzev, U of Toronto
> "Between God and the devil: Gogol's Evenings on
> the Farm near Dikanka"
> Christopher Turner, UBC
> "Dead Souls among the Devils"
>
>REFORMS IN RUSSIA
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Joan DeBardeleben, Carleton U
> "Reform in the Russian Workplace: A View from Below"
> Val Samonis, CREES
> "Transition to Markets: Frontiers of Research"
>
>UKRAINIAN ETHNOLOGY: WORK IN PROGRESS I
>Chair: Radomir Bilash, Alberta Historic Sites
>Papers: Bohdan Medwidsky, U of Alberta
> "Proverbs in the Plaviuk Archives"
> Steve Prystupa, Canadian Museum of Civilization
> "St. Onufrius Church: A Medium for Representing
> Ukrainian-Canadian Culture"
> Andriy Nahachewsky, U of Alberta
> "A Comparison of a Ukrainian Dance in Canada
> and in Western Ukraine"
>
>11:00 - 12:45 AM
>
>PLENARY SESSION: TEACHING SLAVIC STUDIES TODAY
>Chair: Nick Zekulin, U of Calgary
>Panelists: Joan DeBardelen, Carleton
> Maxim Tarnawsky, U of Toronto
> Larry Black, Carleton
> Fred Eidlin, U of Guelph
>
>1:30 - 3:15 PM
>
>CONTEMPORARY POLAND
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Stefania Miller, McMaster
> "Religion and Politics in Postcommunist Transition
> in Poland"
> Adam Bromke, Polish Academy of Sciences
> Title to be announced
> Edward Mozejko, U of Alberta
> Title to be announced
>
>STAGNATION OR DISINTEGRATION: RUSSIAN PROSE TOWARDS THE END
>OF THE BREZHNEV ERA
>Chair: Marina Swoboda, McGill
>Papers: Laura Beraha, McGill
> "Within and Without the Homeland: The Divided Loyalties
> of Fazil Iskander's Sandro iz Chegema"
> Valentina Baslyk, Mary Washington College
> "Three-Way Vision: Schizophrenic Perspectives in
> Venedikt Erofeev's Moskva-Petushki"
> Anthony Vanchu, U of Texas
> "Vladimir Sorokin: Text as Cultural Vomitorium"
>
>CONFERENCE ON UKRAINIAN STUDIES
>
>GRADUATE STUDENTS' MEETING
>
>3:30 - 5:15 PM
>
>CAS GENERAL MEETING
>
>5:00 - 7:00 PM
>
>PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION
>
>30 MAY, 1996
>
>9:00 - 10:45 AM
>
>SLAVIC LINGUISTICS
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Gunter Schaarschmidt, U of Victoria
> "Compensatory Lengthening in Sorbian and Ukrainian
> Revisited"
> John Dingley, York U
> "Alexander Issatchenko and 'have' in OCS"
>
>NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Peter Petro, UBC
> "Dostoevsky's Satire: The Devils"
> Peter Sekirin, U of Toronto
> "Slavophiles and Westernizers in 'A Writer's Diary'
> by F. Dostoevsky"
>
>PROBLEMS OF UKRAINIAN MODERNIST LITERATURE
>Chair: Oleh Ilnytzkyj, U of Alberta
>Papers: Oksana Krys, U of Alberta
> "The Modernist Prose of Maksym Rylskyi"
> Irene Sywenky, U of Alberta
> Title to be announced
> Oleh Ilnytzkyj, U of Alberta
> "Death of the All-Russian Idea and Ukrainian
> Modernism"
>
>11:00 - 12:45 AM
>
>SOVIET HISTORY AND CULTURE II
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Jennifer Clibbon, CBC
> "Citizens' Letters to Kalinin, 1917-1930"
> Connie Wawruk-Hemmett, Dalhousie U
> "Black and White and 'Red' All Over: Graphic
> Representations of the New Soviet Woman, 1929-1934"
> Roman Bahry, York
> "Religious Themes and Symbolism in the Films
> of Paradzhanov and Tarkovsky"
>
>TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Maren Kasulke, U of Waterloo
> "The Concept of Time in the 'Modern' Poetics
> of Rilke and Marina Cvetaeva"
> Galya Rylkova, U of Toronto
> "Okrylionnyi Sogliadatai: Kuzmin and Nabokov"
> Donald Loewen, U of Wisconsin
> "Freeing the Voice: Biographical Projection and
> Mandelstam's Declaration of Independence"
> Inga Dolinina, McMaster, Tatiana Patera, McGill
> "Bodily Parts: Anatomy, Physiology and
> Metaphorization in Akhmatova and Brodsky"
>
>UKRAINIAN ETHNOLOGY: WORKS IN PROGRESS II
>Chair: Bohdan Medwidsky, U of Alberta
>Papers: Brian Cherwick, U of Alberta
> "Ukrainian Musicians in Canada: Construction of Identity"
> Natalka Shostak, U of Alberta
> "Ukrainian and Canadian Business Culture in Contact:
> A Comparative Study in Anthropological Perspectives"
> Radomir Bilash, Alberta Historic Sites
> "'Plast' before 'Plast': Organizing Ukrainian-Canadian
> Youth before 1948"
>
>1:30 - 3:15 PM
>
>NEW PERSPECTIVES IN CANADIAN LIBRARIANSHIP
>Panelists: Nevenka Koscevic, U of Manitoba
> Mary Stevens, U of Toronto
> Jack MacIntosh, UBC
>TOLSTOY
>Chair: Donna Orwin, U of Toronto
>Papers: To be announced
>
>NEW EVIDENCE ON THE COLD WAR
>Chair: TBA
>Papers: Leo Gluchowski, U of Toronto
> "New Evidence on the Cold War in Eastern Europe:
> The Antisemitic Purges in the Polish Military and
> Party Following the Arab-Israeli War of 1967"
> Fred Eidlin, U of Guelph
> "Strange Invasion: Czechoslovakia 1968 in the Light
> of New Documentary Materials"
>
>CAS EXECUTIVE MEETING
>
>
>******************************************************************
>Nina Kolesnikoff
>