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For those attending this year’s Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) conference, which will take place between November 20 and November 23 in Washington, D.C., please note the following panels and papers, which are related to Dostoevsky Studies. The full program can be found here.
We hope to see you at ASEEES!
Dostoevsky Panels:
Friday, November 21
1:30-3:15 pm
Dostoevsky in the Digital Age
(North American Dostoevsky Society Panel)
On the Limits of Polyphony: Dostoevsky on English and Russian Wikipedia – Lindsay Marie Ceballos
Ciphering Dostoevsky: Using Computers to Compare Novelistic Narrators – Katherine Bowers & Kate Holland
Cassandras of the Underground: Dostoevsky against ‘AI’ – Chloë Kitzinger
Chair: Robin Feuer Miller
Discussant: Lynn E. Patyk
Sunday, November 23
12:00-1:45 pm
Dostoevsky on the Margins
Dostoevsky’s Companion: Shoqan Valikhanov and Their Forgotten Bond – Alina Ivanova
Poets of the Underground: Dostoevsky and Egor Letov – Vladimir Ivantsov
Suspended Between Music and Words: Memory in Dostoevsky’s Unfinished Novel Netochka Nezvanova – Victoria Juharyan
Chair: Olesya Ivantsova
Discussant: Olga Lyanda-Geller & Christopher Woodruff Lemelin
Individual Dostoevsky Papers:
Thursday, November 20
1-2:45 pm
War of the Underground: Dostoevsky’s Paradoxical Approach to War and the Sin of Cain – Peter G Winsky, on the panel: Orthodox Christianity and War: Religious Narratives of Violence, Memory, and (Self)Justification in Russia
3-4:45 pm
Dostoevsky papers on the panel: 19th-Century Russophone Women Writers I: In Dialogue with Famous Men
Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Psychology of Child Loss – Anna A. Berman
Not for General Consumption: Anna Dostoevskaya Creates a Better, Kinder Fyodor Dostoevsky – Irina Reyfman
Friday, November 21
8-9:45 am
The Child in Krysztof Kieszlowski’s ‘Dekalog 1’ and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s: Brothers Karamazov: A Terrible Fate for the Gifted and Kind-Hearted? – Nikolay Smirnov, on the panel: Representations of Childhood in Russian and Polish Films
Saturday, November 22
10-11:45 am
Freedom, Memory, and History: The Literary Reimagining of Fichte and Hegel – Marina Bykova, on the panel: Intersections of Philosophy and Literature: Approaches to the Concept of Memory
Memory, Resurrection, and Filial Piety in Dostoevsky and Fyodorov – Brian Arthur Armstrong, on the panel: Intersections of Philosophy and Literature: Approaches to the Concept of Memory
Sofias in the Russian Family Novel: Reframing the Genre as Liberal Wisdom Literature – Christy Monet, on the panel: Socratic Women III: Socrates and Hypatia
‘Call up your memories…wake them from the dead, and wake yourself, too’: Memory and Mortality in Dostoevsky’s Uncle’s Dream – Leah Plekhanova, on the panel: The Vanishing Self: The Politics of Forgetting in Russophone and Balkan Literatures and Film
Dostoevskii Versus Pisarev: ‘Struggle for Existence’ Inside a Crocodile – Emily Ziffer, on the panel: Exhibiting Evolution
12-1:45 am
Dostoevsky papers on the panel: The Sense of Suffering in Literature, Poetry, and Performance
The Pain of Sharing Pain – Murad Jalilov
Faith’s Influence on the Expression of Lament in Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ – Mariia Shishmareva
Sunday, November 23
10-11:45 am
A Tale of Two Cities: Leonid Tsypkin’s Street Photography – Eric Kim, on the panel: Visual Media at Face Value: Non-Professional 20th-century Portraits and Photographs
Why Do People Queer the Russian Literary Canon with Fanfiction? – Ekaterina Tutatina, on the panel: Subtext or Text?: Queer Temporalities and Popular Culture
12-1:45 pm
The Enduring Enigma of Lev Tikhomirov – Glenn Cronin, on the panel: Alternative for Russia: Monarchist, Populist and Antisemitic Voices across the 1917 Divide
