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Russian and Slavic Studies at Yale: Retrospects and Prospects


Russian & Slavic
Studies At Yale

Nov. 5-7, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russian and Slavic Studies at Yale: Retrospects and Prospects
Alumni Conference
November 5 - 7, 2004

 

Conference Program

Friday, November 5

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

REGISTRATION
Rose Alumni House
232 York Street (between Chapel and Elm)

5:30 – 7:30 PM

REGISTRATION
Pierson College Dining Hall
261 Park Street
(enter from York Street between
Rose Alumni House and Davenport College)

PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS

Two special guided tours will be offered.
Note: Tour Times have changed.

1:15 - 2:15 pm
     only

The Yale Center for Language Study
370 Temple Street

1:15 - 2:15 pm
     only

The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
15 Hillhouse Avenue

2:30 - 3:30 pm
     only

Russian and Slavic collections in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Sterling Memorial Library
12 Wall Street (Beinecke Library)

   
CONFERENCE
 

OPENING SESSION
Linsly-Chittenden Room 102
63 High Street

4:00 – 4:30

Welcoming Remarks
Jon Butler
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Vladimir Alexandrov
Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Paul Bushkovitch
Department of History and DGS, Russian & East European Studies

4:30 – 5:30

Keynote Address:
“What we Slavists should do in this crazy post-Communist world”
Tomas Venclova ’85 PhD (SLL)
Yale University

   
CELEBRATION

5:45 - 7:15

Reception
Pierson College Dining Hall

7:15

Dinner
Pierson College Dining Hall

 

Toast to Victor Erlich
in celebration of his 90th birthday
on November 22, 2004,
by Harvey Goldblatt ’77 PhD (SLL)
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Master of Pierson College, Yale University

 

After-dinner remarks
by Alexander Schenker ’53 PhD
(Linguistics)
Professor Emeritus, Slavic Linguistics, Yale University

   
Saturday, November 6

All panel sessions in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102
63 High Street

9:00 - 10:30

Russian and East European History

 

Moderator

Paul Bushkovitch
Yale University

 

Panelists

M. B. Biskupski ’81 PhD
History
Central Connecticut State University

   

Nikolaos Chrissidis ’00 PhD
History
Southern Connecticut State University

   

Michael David-Fox ’93 PhD
History
University of Maryland

   

Laura Engelstein
Yale University

     

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

     

11:00 - 12:15

Contemporary Society in Russia and East Europe

 

Moderator

Keith Darden
Yale University (Political Science)

 

Panelists

Michael Bernhard ’81 MA
SEES
Pennsylvania State University

   

Thomas Remington ’74 MA SEES ’78 PhD
Political Science
Emory University

   

Elizabeth Sullivan ’74 BA, ’76 MA
SEES
Foreign Affairs Columnist
Cleveland Plain Dealer

     

12:30 - 2:00

Buffet Lunch
Hall of Graduate Studies Dining Room

   

2:15 – 3:45

Literary Studies

 

Moderator

Vladimir Alexandrov
Yale University

 

Panelists

Susanne Fusso ’84 PhD
(SLL)
Wesleyan University (Connecticut)

   

Olga Hasty ’80 PhD
(SLL)
Princeton University

   

Alexandar Mihailovic ’93 PhD
(SLL)
Hofstra University

   

Greta Slobin ’78 PhD
(SLL)
Wesleyan University (Connecticut)

     

7:00

Cocktails and Dinner
Linonia & Brothers Room, Sterling Memorial Library

 

After dinner remarks
by Robert Jackson
B.E. Bensinger Professor Emeritus,
Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University

   
Sunday, November 7

9:00 - 10:15

Slavic Linguistics and Philology
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211
320 York Street

 

Moderator

Edward Stankiewicz
Yale University

 

Panelists

Denis Crnkovic ’85 PhD (SLL)
Gustavus Adolphus College (Minnesota)

   

Robert Greenberg ’91 PhD (SLL)
Yale University,
University of New Haven

   

Harvey Goldblatt ’77 PhD (SLL)
Yale University

     

10:30

Farewell Brunch
Hall of Graduate Studies Common Room