Since 1991 the classical Russian literature of the 19th century has gone through both eclipse and revival. Modernist and post-modernist accounts of Russian culture that came to the fore in the late 1980s began to give way to a reinterpretation of the 19thC, adding to the Russian classics a wider perspective of music, visual arts, and theater and new methodologies. This process is only beginning and requires a united effort of scholars to succeed.
Inspired by this renewed interest in the 19th century and the general shift toward destabilizing disciplinary and historiographic borders, this conference brings together prominent senior scholars and emerging junior scholars from Russia, Europe, and the U.S., from diverse fields (language and literature, musicology, art and architecture history, performance studies and drama history).
10:15–12:00 Panel 1: The Russian Canon Abroad
Chair: Ruth Yeazell (English, Yale)
Melissa Frazier (Russian and Comparative Literature, Sarah Lawrence)
Nancy Ruttenburg (English and Comparative Literature, Stanford)
Anne Lounsbery (Russian and Slavic Studies, NYU)
1:00–2:45 Panel 2: Art Markets
Chair: Douglas Rogers (Anthropology, Yale)
Andrey Shabanov (History of Art, European University St.Petersburg)
Simon Morrison (Music, Princeton)
Julie Buckler (Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature,
Harvard)
3:00–4:10 Panel 3: The Historical Turn
Chair: Paul Bushkovitch (History, Yale)
Daniil Petrov (Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory)
Svetlana Usacheva (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
4:45–6:15 Panel 4: Intermediality
Chair: Tim Barringer (History of Art, Yale)
Marina Frolova-Walker (Music, Cambridge)
Alexey Vdovin (Linguistics and Literary Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Molly Brunson (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale)