“Staging Theatre History: The Origin Myth and the Struggle for Autonomy in Russian Imperial Theatre” – Andrey Fedotov, Lomonosov State U (Russia), “Constructing Russian Nation in the Age of the Great Reforms: Alexander Ostrovsky and the Canon of Russian Drama” – Kirill Zubkov, Higher School of Economics (Russia), “Classics for All? This is the first in the series of three panels on film adaptations produced in the Soviet and post-Soviet period, 1930-2017. Please see Mike Hickey's article in the May 2008 issue of NewsNet: "The Five Obstructions" or "Why somebody's panel has to meet on Sunday morning".
The next update will likely take place under the next Subcommittee Chair. The list below is divided into two parts: Part I features panels and roundtables that focus primarily on Dostoevsky; Part II lists panels and roundtables where Dostoevsky’s works or legacy feature prominently in at least one presentation. At the September virtual meeting, Subcommittee members agreed on a plan to divide the remaining work on this project so that the complete set of statistics can be presented to the CLIR membership in various formats (i.e., graphs, tables, and spreadsheets) by mid-January 2019.
Panelists included: Larisa Walsh (University of Chicago), Geoff Husic (University of Kansas), Lana Soglasnova (University of Toronto), Thomas Dousa (University of Chicago), Slavic, East European, and Eurasian ILL Workshop (14 attendees). We invite papers and proposals that deal with this broader theme, with a range of possible interpretations. The current Convention program (see the link below) displays the new virtual convention schedule. This panel aims to further investigate those influences in an attempt to do justice to both Dostoevsky’s thought and writing.
The Program Chair and the Program Committee spend hours of time trying to avoid thematic conflicts. Exibitor, Sponsorship and Advertising Opportunities. Society for the Promotion of LGBTQ Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. November 23, 2019 - November 26, 2019 The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) holds its Annual Convention on 23–26 November 2019 in San Francisco (USA). A draft version of the new FAQ will be on the agenda for the 2018 meeting, with the expectation that the final version will be completed and added to the website by the end 2019. The Committee on Libraries and Information Resources presented this year’s Distinguished Service Award to the late June Pachuta Farris. See the travel grant page for more information. You can find your own panel/roundtable/meeting schedule(s) by entering your name in the search box at the top of the program homepage, or by going to: "Browse by Person" in the left navigation. For more information on how to search the program, see "Search Tips" in the left navigation. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX … “Performing Faithfully: Shakespearean Fools in Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead” – Arpi Movesian, UC Santa Barbara, “Two Cruel Talents: The Interplay of Constriction and Kata-Strophe in the Scenic Art of Dickinson and Dostoevsky” – Monika Greenleaf, Stanford U, “Theodicy and Faith in an Ethical Universe: Dostoevsky and Nabokov on the Suffering Child” – Sara Pankenier Weld, UC Santa Barbara, Discussant: Martha M. F. Kelley, U of Missouri, Chair: Sara Pankenier Weld, UC Santa Barbara, Book Discussion: “Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment,” Edited by Michael Katz and Alex Burry, 12:00 to 1:45pm, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, Floor: 4, Pacific C. A volume of essays is currently in preparation for the MLA Series called Approaches to Teaching (edited by Michael Katz and Alex Burry).
Since 2002 the committee (primarily Janice Pilch) has fielded 841 copyright queries from individuals in the U.S., U.K., Russian Federation, and other countries through Slavlibs, SEELANGS, H-Net Russia listservs, the American Library Association (ALA) Copyright Advisory Network, and referrals from the Library of Congress. Jon GiullianHead, International CollectionsLibrarian for Slavic and Eurasian StudiesWatson Library, The University of Kansas, ASEEES CLIR Report from the 50th Annual Convention, German-Language Newspaper Access in North America, Iberian Studies (Spain, Portugal and Andorra), Indexes and Guides to Western European Periodicals, ESS Midwinter Meeting 2020 – Philadelphia, Slavic & East European Studies (SEES) Website, ESS De Gruyter European Librarianship Study Grant, The ASEEES Committee on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR), The CLIR Subcommittee on Collection Development, In Search of the Perfect Collection: Armenian Studies Collections at the UC-Berkeley Library, The CLIR Subcommittee on Copyright Issues, The CLIR Subcommittee on Education & Access, The CLIR Subcommittee on Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP), ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies), CIFNAL (Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections), GNARP (German-North American Resources Partnership), SALALM (Seminar for the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials), WESLINE (West European Studies Library and Information Network). When discussing Dostoevsky’s famous claim (“I am only a realist in the higher sense, that is, I depict all the depths of the human soul”), Robert Louis Jackson points out that “it is no surprise, against a background of an age dominated by German romantic aesthetics, to find Dostoevsky positing art as a form of philosophical inquiry <…> and the object of philosophical inquiry is simultaneously the object of poetic creation” (Dostoevsky’s Quest For Form. The panel shows how post-Soviet filmmakers approached time-honored Russian literature by Pushkin and Dostoevsky, and the Soviet classic, “Quiet Flows the Don” by Mikhail Sholokhov, and re-interpreted these works for the new, post-Soviet period. And belief is not limited to human relations but reached into our fraught relationships with the natural environment and with the unearthly. Co-ChairsMary Neuburger, University of Texas, AustinMasa Kolanovic, University of Zagreb. The panel also stresses reciprocal and unexpected influences between social and literary institutions. Our first panel examines Soviet-Western encounters through studying film adaptations made between 1930 and 1972: Soviet film adaptations of Western literature, such as the Soviet Winnie the Pooh, and vice versa, Western attempts to adapt Russian literature to screen, as in the Hollywood adaptation of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” The panel is interested in the conversion “from foreign to native” system of beliefs that happens in the course of cross-cultural film adaptations. On behalf of the Subcommittee, Liladhar Pendse (UC Berkeley) submitted an article to the June 2018 issue of the Association’s newsletter, NewsNet: “In Search of the Perfect Collection: Armenian Studies Collections at the UC-Berkeley Library” (p. 8-11). Per the Subcommittee’s charge, efforts to compile current publishing statistics for all 29 SEEE countries were initiated in 2017.
There are many nearby hotels in different price ranges. First, we aim to address the ways in which philosophy and poetics are inextricably interwoven throughout Dostoevsky’s oeuvre: from the influence of Friedrich Schelling’s Philosophy of Identity on the early novella White Nights, to The Brothers Karamazov’s specific conception of love as informed by the author’s readings of the Gospels and patristics. This will be a mainly descriptive post about a panel I attended at ASEEES 2019 (the US Russian Studies biggest conference), in San Francisco. 2019 ASEEES President Mark Steinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Belief may be a universal human impulse.
CLIR and its subcommittees work on a wide range of topics and initiatives that include, but are not limited to: collection development, vendor issues, the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) online database, copyright and licensing, access to resources, cataloging, digital initiatives, and microfilming projects. This panel, bringing together Russian, European and American scholars, seeks to reestablish the sociological perspective in the studies of 19th-century Russian literature and culture.
You can also view the entire convention schedule under "Browse by Time," which is divided by day and time slots.