Conference: “The Russian Century: The Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts, 1801-1917”

Event time: 
Saturday, October 1, 2016 - 9:00am
Location: 
Luce Hall (LUCE), Auditorium See map
34 Hillhouse Ave.
New Haven, CT 06511
(Location is wheelchair accessible)
Event description: 

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 have begun to give way to a reinterpretation of the nineteenth century, one that adds to the Russian classics a wider perspective encompassing 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, under the guidance of Molly Brunson, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will bring together prominent senior scholars and emerging junior scholars from Russia, Europe, and the U.S., and from a wide range of fields (language and literature, musicology, art and architecture history, performance studies and drama history). Twenty speakers will participate, with the intention of maximizing dialogue between Russian specialists and their American and European counterparts, and creating potential for conversation and collaboration among an international collective of historians of the arts in its broadest sense.