
Dostoevsky Dismembered: Decentering a Great Writer听
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April 15, 2005
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PROGRAM
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3401 Walnut Street, Max Kade Center
Room 329A听
(34th and Walnut 鈥� above Starbucks)
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10:00 - 10:15 Opening remarks: Associate Dean Joe Farrell
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10:15 - 12:00 Panel I: Dissections and Interruptions听
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Chair: Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania听
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Liza Knapp, Columbia University, 鈥淭he Adolescent: Dismembering the Novel of Adultery鈥�
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William Todd, Harvard University, 鈥淢ediocrity and Narrration in Dostoevsky's Idiot鈥�
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Claudia Verhoven, University of California, Los Angeles, 鈥淚nterrupting the Zeitgeist: The Cases of Raskolnikov and Karakozov鈥�
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Discussant: Amelia Glaser, Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania听
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1:00 - 2:45 Panel II: Truths and Doubts
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Chair: Vlad Todorov, University of Pennsylvania听
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Steven Cassedy, University of California, San Diego, 鈥淒ostoevsky Didn鈥檛 Really Believe in Anything鈥�
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Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania, 鈥淲here Bobok Is Buried: Theosophical Roots of Dostoevsky鈥� s 鈥淔antastic Realism鈥�
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Ilya Kliger, Yale University, 鈥淭ruth Discourse in Crime and Punishment鈥�
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Discussant: Anne Eakin Moss, Johns Hopkins University
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3:00 - 4:45 Panel III: Interventions and Transpositions
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Chair: Julia Vaingurt, University of Pennsylvania
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Sharon Allen, Penn Humanities Forum, 鈥淩e-membering Romance in Dostoevsky's and Machado de Assis's 'Underground Narratives'听
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Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, 鈥淚n Search of the Dialogic Novel: Dostoevsky versus Tolstoy鈥�
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Monica Popescu, University of Pennsylvania, 鈥淲hat's Dostoevsky Got to Do With It? Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg and the Logic of Late Post-Colonialism鈥�
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Discussant: Timothy Harte, Bryn Mawr College听
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4:45 - 6:00 Reception