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2005: Dostoevsky Dismembered: Decentering a Great Writer

Dostoevsky Dismembered: Decentering a Great Writer听

April 15, 2005

PROGRAM

3401 Walnut Street, Max Kade Center
Room 329A听
(34th and Walnut 鈥� above Starbucks)

10:00 - 10:15 Opening remarks: Associate Dean Joe Farrell

10:15 - 12:00 Panel I: Dissections and Interruptions听

Chair: Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania听

Liza Knapp, Columbia University, 鈥淭he Adolescent: Dismembering the Novel of Adultery鈥�

William Todd, Harvard University, 鈥淢ediocrity and Narrration in Dostoevsky's Idiot鈥�

Claudia Verhoven, University of California, Los Angeles, 鈥淚nterrupting the Zeitgeist: The Cases of Raskolnikov and Karakozov鈥�

Discussant: Amelia Glaser, Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania听

1:00 - 2:45 Panel II: Truths and Doubts

Chair: Vlad Todorov, University of Pennsylvania听

Steven Cassedy, University of California, San Diego, 鈥淒ostoevsky Didn鈥檛 Really Believe in Anything鈥�

Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania, 鈥淲here Bobok Is Buried: Theosophical Roots of Dostoevsky鈥� s 鈥淔antastic Realism鈥�

Ilya Kliger, Yale University, 鈥淭ruth Discourse in Crime and Punishment鈥�

Discussant: Anne Eakin Moss, Johns Hopkins University

3:00 - 4:45 Panel III: Interventions and Transpositions

Chair: Julia Vaingurt, University of Pennsylvania

Sharon Allen, Penn Humanities Forum, 鈥淩e-membering Romance in Dostoevsky's and Machado de Assis's 'Underground Narratives'听

Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, 鈥淚n Search of the Dialogic Novel: Dostoevsky versus Tolstoy鈥�

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�

Discussant: Timothy Harte, Bryn Mawr College听

4:45 - 6:00 Reception