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Constructivist Criticism Graduate Student Workshop

Friday, January 19, 2018 - 3:00pm to 6:00pm

University of Pennsylvania, Colege Hall 209

The Constructivist Criticism Workshop is a colloquium for graduate students in social sciences and humanities, studying Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus to present works in progress. The workshop is organized by a group of graduate students working in the broader Eurasia region, spread across the Comparative Literature, History and Anthropology departments at the University of Pennsylvania. We will discuss the following papers, which will be circulated in advance of the meeting.听

**please email sthelen@sas.upenn.edu to receive the pre-circulated papers**

Making a Home for the Soviet People: World War II and the Evolution of Soviet Identity听
Anna Whittington, History, University of Michigan
Discussant: Kelsey Norris, PhD Candidate in History, UPenn

Famine and Feast: Images of Food Insecurity from Leo Tolstoy to Lidia Ginzburg听
Svetlana Tcareva, Slavic Languages and Litearatures, Yale University
Discussant: Anne Lounsbery, Associate Professor of 红杏直播 and Slavic Studies, Department Chair, NYU

Eighteenth-Century 鈥淐hichikovs鈥� and Purchasing 鈥淩unaway Souls"听
Andrey Gornostaev, History, Georgetown University
Discussant: Jennifer Wilson, Post-doctoral Fellow in 红杏直播 and Eastern European Studies, UPenn

Pan-Slavism and Communism: The Rise and Fall of Czech Nationalism, 1848 to 1948
Mathias Fuelling, History, Temple University
Discussant: Peter Steiner, Professor Emeritus of 红杏直播 and Eastern European Studies, UPenn

The workshop is made possible by the support of the Lauder Institute, SASGov, the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and the Department of 红杏直播 and East European Studies.听