Transnational Russian Studies - Programme

Thursday 14 Sep 2017

1.30pm-2.00pm Registration (with coffee/tea)

2.00pm-2.15pm Opening remarks: Andy Byford, Durham University

2.15pm-3.30pm Panel 1: Beyond Nation and Empire

• Discussant: Vera Tolz, University of Manchester
• The Empire Strikes East: Russia’s Literary Colonisation of Central Asia, Olga Maiorova, University of Michigan
• Transcultural Archetypes in the Literature of the Pale of Settlement, Amelia Glaser, University of California-San Diego

3.30pm-4.00pm Tea/coffee break

4.00pm-5.15pm Panel 2: Between the Near and the Far Abroad

• Discussant: Tatiana Filimonova, The College of Wooster
• Russian Cultural Wholes and Fragments in the Baltic "Near Abroad", Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania
• The Russophone World in the UK, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, University of Edinburgh

7.00pm Dinner (The Cellar Door)

Friday 15 Sep 2017

10.00am-11.15am Panel 3: Translation across Borders

• Discussant: Oliver Ready, University of Oxford
• Sewing up the World Social System: Translation from/into Russian in the Socialist Camp, Sergey Tyulenev, Durham University & Vitaly Nuriev, Institut iazykoznaniia RAN
• Bringing Books across Borders: Behind the Scenes at Penguin Classics, Cathy McAteer, University of Bristol

11.15am-11.45am Tea/coffee break

11.45am-1.00pm Panel 4: Russian Trans-literature

• Discussant: Siggy Frank, University of Nottingham
• Translingual Russian Émigré Literature: The Peculiar Case of Vladimir Nabokov, Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University
• Found and Lost: Ulitskaya's Daniel Stein, Interpreter as Global Philosophical Novel, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University

1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch

2.00pm-3.15pm Panel 5: Transnational Cinemas

• Discussant: Alastair Renfrew, Durham University
• Russian Cinema Going West (and East): Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad, Stephen M. Norris, Miami University
• Transnationalism as Experience: The Case of Post-Soviet Cinema Dušan Radunović, Durham University

3.15pm-3.45pm Tea/coffee break

3.45pm-5.00pm Panel 6: Russian Trans-cultures

• Discussant: Jennifer Wilson, University of Pennsylvania
• Russian Imperfections: On (Un-)translating and De-westernizing Aesthetic Theory, Ellen Rutten, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• Queer Eye for the Russian Guy? Writing about Sexuality in Russia, Connor Doak, University of Bristol

5.30pm-6.30pm

In Conversation: Kirillov across Cultures or The Great Zimbabwean Novel, Tendai Huchu and Jeanne-Marie Jackson

7.00pm Dinner (Hatfield College)

Saturday 16 Sep 2017

9.30am-11.15am Panel 7: Russia Going Global

• Discussant: Valentina Feklyunina, University of Newcastle
• Beyond a World with One Master: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Putin’s 'Sovereign Internet', Michael Gorham, University of Florida
• Retweeting History: RT, the 1917 Revolution Anniversary and the Global Media Landscape, Stephen Hutchings & Vera Tolz, University of Manchester
• Popular-Cultural Information War: Russian-Language Twitter Responses to the 2017 Kiev Eurovision Final, Vitaly Kazakov, University of Manchester

11.15am-11.45am Tea/coffee break

11.45am-1.00pm Round Table: Transnationalising Russian Studies

Chair: Andy Byford, Durham University

Stephen Hutchings, Connor Doak, Vera Tolz, Alastair Renfrew