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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 12 and November 15 in Chicago, 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:
Thursday, November 12
4:00-5:45 pm
Dostoevsky, Race, and Empire
(North American Dostoevsky Society Panel)
“On ‘Originality’: The Race of Sex Work in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot – Fiona Bell
“Dmitry, Russian Othello: Race, Nation, and the People in The Brothers Karamazov” – Lindsay Marie Ceballos
“Parsing Pochvennichestvo: Towards a Thematic Map of Dostoevsky’s Imperial Imaginary” – Katherine Bowers & Kate Holland
Chair: Robin Feuer Miller
Discussant: Olga Y. Maiorova
Friday, November 13
8:00-9:45 am
Spiritual and Political Polarization in Fëdor Dostoevsky’s Aesthetics & Poetics
“Dostoevsky and Conservatism” – Victoria Y. Thorstensson
“Ivan Karamazov as a Matrix for East-West Interpretive Contentions – Nina Straus
“Orthodoxy and Insurrection: Christ, Freedom, and the Problem of Political Action in Dostoevsky – Michael Marsh Soloway
“Contours of Dostoevsky’s Spiritual Types in House of the Dead” – Elizabeth Ann Blake
Chair: Amy Ronner
Discussants: Erica Stone Drennan & Arpi Movsesian
Sunday, November 15
10:00-11:45 am
Hidden Layers of Dostoevsky
“Under the Open Sky: The Natural World in Crime and Punishment” – Amy Singleton Adams
“When Paper Men Speak: Linguistic Poverty and the Ethical Imagination in Demons – Jiwon Jung
“Dostoevsky’s Borrowings from the Comic Writers Terence, Plautus, and Molière” – Marc Jordan
“Sex and the Adolescent” – Brian Arthur Armstrong
Chair: Elizabeth Ann Blake
Discussant: Amy Ronner
DOSTOEVSKY PAPERS:
Friday, November 13
1:30-3:15 pm
“Attunement Without Agreement: Dostoevsky’s Irreducible Other” – Arpi Movsesian, on the panel: Problems of Empathy
“Hurt People: Reexamining Violence in The Idiot” – Mykyta Tyshchenko, on the panel: Medical Humanities and Aesthetics II: Bodies and Minds That Map: Trauma, Disability, and Art in Slavic Cultures
Saturday, November 14
4:00-5:45 pm
“Totalization and Fragmentation: The Cinema of Ivan Pyryev from Socialist Realism to Dostoevsky” – Kasym Orozbaev, on the panel: Between Aesthetics and Ideology I: Constructing the Soviet Subject
DOSTOEVSKY-RELATED ROUNDTABLES & BOOK DISCUSSIONS:
Saturday, November 14
10:00-11:45 am
Book Discussion – Noble Sentiments and the Rise of Russian Novels: A European Literary History, by Hilde Hoogenboom
Speakers: Hilde M. Hoogenboom, Anna A. Berman, Irina Reyfman, Jehanne M. Gheith, and William Mills Todd
Chair: Charlotte Rosenthal
Sunday, November 15
10:00-11:45 am
Left Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality I: Sex, Violence, and Masculinity after Freud
From the program: “with Freud’s Beasty Boys in mind, Semyon Leonenko will read Dostoevsky’s ‘The Peasant Marei’ as the primal scene of the Russian nationalist imaginary.”
Happy conferencing!