Maxim Trudoliubov, will present "Putin, Medvedev, and Facebook: Social Networks
and Civil Society in Today's Russia," Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 4 p.m. in Reed
Hall 108. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Dickey Center for International
Understanding and the Russian Department.
Presenters for 2011 are:
Emily R. Goodell
Stages of Misunderstanding: Translating the Idioms and Idiosyncrasies of Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide
advisor - John Kopper
Justin M. Varilek
In the Pursuit of Statehood: Transnistria as a Case Study
advisors - Bridget Coggins and John Kopper
Poetry and Poetics: A Centennial Tribute to Kiril Taranovsky
March 18-20 Haldeman 041
3/189:00 a.m.Opening of Conference
Session 1: Verse and Meaning
Elena Khvorost'ianova: “Метр и смысл: постановка проблемы и история ее изучения”
Mikhail Gronas: “Why Did Free Verse Catch on in the West, but not in Russia? On the Social Uses of Memorized Poetry”
10:45 a.m.Session 2: 20th-Century Themes
Marina Akimova: “Strophe and theme in M. Kuzmin's Osenniye ozyora”
Nila Friedberg: “From Bely to Brodsky: The changing semantics of form”
Henryk Baran: “Пометы Хлебникова и проблема источников его творчества”
3:00 p.m.Session 3: Pushkin
Alyssa Dinega Gillespie: “Secrets, the Sacred, and Sacrilege: Pushkin’s Pursuit of Poetic Knowledge”
Mihhail Lotman: “Rhythmical structure of the Onegin stanza” (Ритмическая структура онегинской строфы)
Alexander Zholkovsky: “Поэзия грамматики: ‘Город пышный, город бедный...’ Пушкина
3/199:00 a.m.Session 4: Studies in the Features of Russian Verse
Ksenia Tveryanovich: “Вольный стих басен И. И. Хемницера”
Ian Lilly: “‘Генеалогия’ строфы Х5 АбАб”
Tatyana Skulacheva: "Verse and Prose from the linguistic point of view" (Стих и проза: лингвистические различия)
11:00 a.m. Session 5: Comparative Metrics
Evgeny Kazartsev: “A Comparative Study of Early Dutch, German and Russian Iambic Verse”
Emily Klenin: “Knittelverse and iambs in Afanasy Fet’s translation of Faust's opening monologue”
3:00 p.m. Session 6: The Legacy of Kiril Taranovsky
Peter Bunjak: “Кирилл Федорович Тарановский как исследователь сербского стиха"
Barry Scherr: “Taranovsky’s Laws: Further Observations from a Comparative Perspective”
James Bailey: “K. F. Taranovsky’s Study of Russian Folk Verse and the Continuation of His Methods in My Works”
Aleksandr Prokhorov: “Тарановский и эволюция двусложных силлабо-тонических размеров”
3/209:00 a.m.Session 7: Pasternak
Nancy Pollak: “Lermontov’s Contributions to the Meter of Pasternak’s ‘Elene’”
Elena Glazov-Corrigan: “Aerial Ways: Poetics of Poetry and Poetics of Revolution”
10:40 a.m.Session 8: Mandel'shtam
Lada Panova: “Platonic Love as Intertextual Construction: Osip Mandel'shtam’s Poems to Natal'ia Shtempel”
Andrew Reynolds: “‘Yet once more...’: The Word and Fate in Mandel'shtam's “Na rozval'niakh, ulozhennykh solomoi”
