You are warmly invited to a two-day symposium on “The Weird Russian 19th Century,” hosted by the Russian and East European Program at Rutgers University. Note the three panels on “Weird Dostoevsky”! Register for each day of the symposium at the links below.<\/p>\n
The Weird Russian 19th Century<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday, April 28, 2023<\/p>\n Registration link: https:\/\/rutgers.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJcqcOiqqjkrE9Y45mSEX9MtDD59Ydzh9T7T<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10:00 Welcome (Co-organizers: Arpi Movsesian and Chlo\u00eb Kitzinger, Rutgers University)<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10:15-12:15 Panel 1: Anxiety, Periphery, Soul\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Luyang Zhou (Zhejiang University): The Eastern Borderlands in Tolstoy’s Anna<\/p>\n Karenina<\/p>\n Ayesha Suhail (Aligarh Muslim University): Murder, Madness and the Absurdity of<\/p>\n Kreutzer Sonata<\/p>\n Intizor Gulyamova (Stony Brook University): The Heirs of Doom: Gogol’s and<\/p>\n Turgenev’s tormented heroes break through fin de race<\/p>\n Elizabeth J. Wenger (Iowa State University): Anxiety, Animal Instincts, and the Dark<\/p>\n Forest: An EcoGothic Reading of Leonid Andreyev’s “The Abyss”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12:15-1:15 Lunch Break<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1:15-2:45 Panel 2: Weird Dostoevsky I (Undergraduates from Rutgers University)<\/b><\/p>\n Anna Lasek: Schisms and Perception: The Way into the “Porog”<\/p>\n Ilona Lyakhovsky: TBD<\/p>\n May Zheng: Reality in Flux and Conflict: Meta-Theater in Notes from the House of the<\/p>\n Dead and Hamlet<\/p>\n Evan Zilber: Rodion Romanovich and Dorian Gray: A Question of Extraordinaries<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2:45-3:00 Break<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3:00-4:00 Keynote: Jacob Emery (Indiana University)<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday, April 29, 2023<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Registration link:\u00a0https:\/\/rutgers.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJ0rdOiprT8sE9F9JnTCyKcC6V0RqOTpoyjO<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10:00-11:45 Panel 3: Ghosts, Women, Tsars<\/b><\/p>\n Chloe Papadopoulos (Dalhousie University): A Tsar Unfit to Rule: “Prirodnaia<\/p>\n nesposobnost'” in Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s Tsar Fedor Ioannovich<\/p>\n Sophie Bradley (Lehigh University): Reading Women Through Sentimentalism<\/p>\n Brett Donohoe (Harvard University): Sensual Specters: The Erotics of<\/p>\n Haunting in Romantic Verse<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11:45-12:45 Lunch Break<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12:45-2:30 Panel 4: Weird Dostoevsky II\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Greta Matzner-Gore (University of Southern California): Weird Dostoevsky (the 1860s)<\/p>\n Arpi Movsesian (Rutgers University): Dostoevsky’s Female Fools and “Urodlivyi” Laughter<\/p>\n Brian Egdorf (Kehillah Jewish High School): Can’t Say Gay, Can’t Say Murder: The<\/p>\n Strange Discussions Between Porfiry Petrovich and Raskolnikov<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2:45-3:00 Break<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3:00-4:45 Panel 5: Weird Dostoevsky III<\/b><\/p>\n Alina Wyman (New College of Florida): Off-Center but On Point: Eccentricity in<\/p>\n Dostoevsky<\/p>\n Ani Abrahamyan (Indiana University): Of Faith and Rationality: Beheadings in<\/p>\n Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Writing<\/p>\n Peter Gregory Winsky (University of Southern California): The Strange World of<\/p>\n Dostoevsky’s Orthodox Ontology: Demons and Cosmic Consciousness in the<\/p>\n Late Novels<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With questions, please contact movsesian@greell.rutgers.edu<\/a>\u00a0and chloe.kitzinger@rutgers.edu<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[44,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-for-papers","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}