department of slavic languages & literatures
Conference Program
SOTS-SPEAK: REGIMES OF LANGUAGE UNDER SOCIALISM
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FRIDAY, MAY 20
12.30 WELCOME ADDRESS
12.45 – 2.45 PANEL 1: LINGUISTIC ANATOMIES
KONSTANTIN BOGDANOV [Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg] — "Soviet Language Culture in the Light of Ethnolinguistics"
ANASTASIA SMIRNOVA [Ohio State U] — "Aligning Language to Ideology: A Socio-Semantic Analysis of Communist And Democratic Discourse In Bulgaria"
CALIN MORAR VULCU [Babe?-Bolyai University, Cluj] — "From Subject of Action to Object of Description: Classes in Romanian State-Socialist Discourse"
CHAIR: OLGA HASTY [Princeton U]
DISCUSSANT: MIRJAM FRIED [Czech Academy Of Sciences]
3.00 – 5.15 PANEL 2: MAKING THINGS WITH WORDS
CHOI CHATTERJEE [California State U, Los Angeles] — "Lady in Red: Bolshevik Feminism in the American Imagination, 1917-1939"
SAMANTHA SHERRY [U of Edinburgh] — "'Bird Watchers Of The World, Unite!' The Language of Ideology in Soviet Translation"
JESSIE LABOV [Ohio State U] — "The Puzzle of the Yugoslav Nationalist/Dissident From Helsinki to Dayton"
ALYSSA DEBLASIO [Dickinson College] — "Philosophical Rhetoric and Istoriia Russkoi Filosofii"
CHAIR: DAVID BELLOS [Princeton U]
DISCUSSANT: IRENA GRUDZINSKA GROSS [Princeton U]
5.30 – 6.45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
JOCHEN HELLBECK (RUTGERS U)
"THE LANGUAGE OF SOVIET EXPERIENCE AND ITS MEANINGS"
SATURDAY, MAY 21
9.00 – 11.00 PANEL 3: SPEAKING STALINESE
CAROL ANY [Trinity College] — "Public And Private Speech Genres In The Soviet Writers' Union Under Stalin"
ILYA VENYAVKIN [Russian State U For The Humanities] — "Mystical Insight Under Socialism: The Language of Political Confessions In The Late 1930s"
ANASTASIYA RYABCHUK [National U Of Kyiv Mohyla Academy] — "Parasites, Asocials, and Work-Shy: Discursive Construction of Homelessness and Vagrancy in the USSR"
CHAIR: PETRE PETROV [PRINCETON U]
DISCUSSANT: JOCHEN HELLBECK [RUTGERS U]
11.15 – 1.15 PANEL 4: FIGURES OF RHETORIC
ELENA GAPOVA [Western Michigan U / European Humanities U] — "The Party Solemnly Proclaims: The Present Generation of Soviet People Shall Live In Communism": The Rhetoric of Utopia in the Khrushchev Era"
KAREN PETRONE [U of Kentucky] — "Afghanistan and the New Discourse of War in the Late Soviet Era"
YULIA MINKOVA [Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U] — "Our Man in Chile, or Victor Jara's Posthumous Life in Soviet Media and Popular Culture"
CHAIR: ELLEN CHANCES [Princeton U]
DISCUSSANT: ELIOT BORENSTEIN [New York U]
2.30 – 4.45 PANEL 5: ON THE LITERARY FRONT
MARIA KISEL [Lawrence U] — "Satirical and Philosophical Dimensions of Sots-Speak in Andrei Platonov's Fiction"
NATALIA SKRADOL [Hebrew U / Ben Gurion University of the Negev] — "The Evolution of the Soviet Bestiary: Satirical Fables From Bednyi To Mikhalkov"
EVA CERMANOVA [U of Aberdeen] — "The Diktat of Language: Bureaucratic Paranoia in Havel'smemorandum"
BAKTYGUL ALIEV [Mcgill U] — "Visuality in V. Narbikova's Okolo Ekolo"
CHAIR: EMILY VAN BUSKIRK [Rutgers U]
DISCUSSANT: HELENA GOSCILO [Ohio State U]
5.00 - 6.15 MEDIA PRESENTATION:
VITALY KOMAR
"WORD AND IMAGE: THE DUALITY OF SOTS-ART"
SUNDAY, MAY 22
9.00 – 11.15 PANEL 6: PRACTICES OF LANGUAGE
JONATHAN LARSON [U of Iowa] — "Heteroglossic Hazards: Wooden Language and Fiery Kritika in Socialist Czechoslovakia"
JAMES ROBERTSON [New York U] — "Speaking Titoism: Non-Alignment and the Language Regime of Yugoslav Socialism"
SUSANNE COHEN [Temple U] — "In and Out of Frame: The Soviet Training as Sots-Speak"
JULIA LERNER AND CLAUDIA ZBENOVICH [Ben Gurion U of The Negev / Hadassah College of Jerusalem] — "Talk and Dress: Adapting the Therapeutic Paradigm to Post-Soviet Speak"
CHAIR: MARGARET BEISSINGER [Princeton U]
DISCUSSANT: ANNA KATSNELSON [Princeton U]
11.30 – 1.30 PANEL 7: DISCURSIVE LEFTOVERS
MARIA SIDORKINA RIVES [Yale U] — "Authoritative Discourse in Post-Authoritarian Russia"
LARA RYAZANOVA-CLARKE [U of Edinburgh] — "Stalinism as an Auteur Project: Meta Sots-Speak in Contemporary Russian Public Discourse"
GASAN GUSEJNOV [Academy of National Economy / Moscow State U] — "On the Vitality of Artificial, or Stalin's Rhetoric Revisited"
CHAIR: ROSSEN DJAGALOV [Yale U]
DISCUSSANT: CARYL EMERSON [Princeton U]
