
SLAVIC HISTORICAL MYTHOLOGIES
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April 27, 2007Ìý
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PROGRAM
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All conference panels too be held in the Max Kade Center,Ìý
3401 Walnut St., Rm. 329AÌý
(34th and Walnut St., above the Starbucks)
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9:45-10:00 Opening remarks
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10:00-12:00 Panel I: Medieval
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Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University, “The ‘Unclean People’ of the Revelations of Pseudo-Methodios of Patara in the Povest’ vremennykh letâ€
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Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania, “Myths about Myths: the Makeover of the Slavic Sibylline Propheciesâ€
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Michael Pesenson, Swarthmore College, “Changing Perceptions of the Antichrist in ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to the Silver Ageâ€
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Discussant: Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
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1:00-3:00 Panel II: Nineteenth Century
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Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania. “ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ Glubbdubdrib: Dimitry’s Shade and the Historical Imagination in the Age of Realismâ€
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Katerina Clark, Yale University, “The Cult of Byron in 1930s Russiaâ€
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Galin Tihanov, Lancaster University, “Organicity: towards the history of a discourseâ€
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Discussant: Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania
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3:15-5:15 Panel III: Twentieth Century
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Mark Steinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
“Wandering in Shattered Time: The Mythic Melancholy of Lost Pasts,Ruined Presents, and Catastrophic Futuresâ€
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David Brandenberger, Richmond University, "The Great Retreat: Stalin’s Cooption of ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ Historical Myths in the Eyes of the Left Intelligentsia.â€
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Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, "Princeton’s Boris Godunov (April 2007): ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ myths meet American realities—and resourcesâ€
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Discussant: Peter Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
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5:30-7:30 Dinner Reception, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 135
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