{"id":35706,"date":"2026-11-06T00:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/dostoevsky-panels-and-papers-at-aseees-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T00:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:56:24","slug":"dostoevsky-panels-and-papers-at-aseees-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/dostoevsky-panels-and-papers-at-aseees-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Dostoevsky Panels and Papers at ASEEES 2026!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement<\/em> here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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For those attending this year\u2019s 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We hope to see you at ASEEES!<\/p>\n

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DOSTOEVSKY PANELS:<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 12<\/strong><\/p>\n

4:00-5:45 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dostoevsky, Race, and Empire<\/em><\/p>\n

(North American Dostoevsky Society Panel)<\/p>\n

\u201cOn \u2018Originality\u2019: The Race of Sex Work in Dostoevsky\u2019s The Idiot<\/em> \u2013 Fiona Bell<\/p>\n

\u201cDmitry, Russian Othello: Race, Nation, and the People in The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Lindsay Marie Ceballos<\/p>\n

\u201cParsing Pochvennichestvo: Towards a Thematic Map of Dostoevsky\u2019s Imperial Imaginary\u201d \u2013 Katherine Bowers & Kate Holland<\/p>\n

Chair: Robin Feuer Miller<\/p>\n

Discussant: Olga Y. Maiorova<\/p>\n

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Friday, November 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:00-9:45 am<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spiritual and Political Polarization in F\u00ebdor Dostoevsky\u2019s Aesthetics & Poetics<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDostoevsky and Conservatism\u201d \u2013 Victoria Y. Thorstensson<\/p>\n

\u201cIvan Karamazov as a Matrix for East-West Interpretive Contentions \u2013 Nina Straus<\/p>\n

\u201cOrthodoxy and Insurrection: Christ, Freedom, and the Problem of Political Action in Dostoevsky \u2013 Michael Marsh Soloway<\/p>\n

\u201cContours of Dostoevsky\u2019s Spiritual Types in House of the Dead<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Elizabeth Ann Blake<\/p>\n

Chair: Amy Ronner<\/p>\n

Discussants: Erica Stone Drennan & Arpi Movsesian<\/p>\n

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Sunday, November 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00-11:45 am<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hidden Layers of Dostoevsky<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the Open Sky: The Natural World in Crime and Punishment<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Amy Singleton Adams<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Paper Men Speak: Linguistic Poverty and the Ethical Imagination in Demons<\/em> \u2013 Jiwon Jung<\/p>\n

\u201cDostoevsky\u2019s Borrowings from the Comic Writers Terence, Plautus, and Moli\u00e8re\u201d \u2013 Marc Jordan<\/p>\n

\u201cSex and the Adolescent\u201d \u2013 Brian Arthur Armstrong<\/p>\n

Chair: Elizabeth Ann Blake<\/p>\n

Discussant: Amy Ronner<\/p>\n

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DOSTOEVSKY PAPERS:<\/p>\n

Friday, November 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:30-3:15 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAttunement Without Agreement: Dostoevsky\u2019s Irreducible Other\u201d \u2013 Arpi Movsesian, on the panel: Problems of Empathy<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHurt People: Reexamining Violence in The Idiot<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Mykyta Tyshchenko, on the panel: Medical Humanities and Aesthetics II: Bodies and Minds That Map: Trauma, Disability, and Art in Slavic Cultures<\/em><\/p>\n

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Saturday, November 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

4:00-5:45 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTotalization and Fragmentation: The Cinema of Ivan Pyryev from Socialist Realism to Dostoevsky\u201d \u2013 Kasym Orozbaev, on the panel: Between Aesthetics and Ideology I: Constructing the Soviet Subject<\/em><\/p>\n

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DOSTOEVSKY-RELATED ROUNDTABLES & BOOK DISCUSSIONS:<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00-11:45 am<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book Discussion \u2013 Noble Sentiments and the Rise of Russian Novels: A European Literary History, by Hilde Hoogenboom<\/em><\/p>\n

Speakers: Hilde M. Hoogenboom, Anna A. Berman, Irina Reyfman, Jehanne M. Gheith, and William Mills Todd<\/p>\n

Chair: Charlotte Rosenthal<\/p>\n

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Sunday, November 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00-11:45 am<\/strong><\/p>\n

Left Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality I: Sex, Violence, and Masculinity after Freud<\/em><\/p>\n

From the program: \u201cwith Freud\u2019s Beasty Boys in mind, Semyon Leonenko will read Dostoevsky\u2019s \u2018The Peasant Marei\u2019 as the primal scene of the Russian nationalist imaginary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Happy conferencing! <\/em><\/p>\n

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