Shifting Horizons: New Perspectives in Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Shifting Horizons: New Perspectives in Slavic and Eurasian Studies
April 4-5, 2025 | Julis Romo Rabinowitz, A17

DAY 1 (April 4)

12:00 PM   Opening Remarks

12:15 – 1:30 PM   SESSION 1: Mirrors of the Mind and Nation: Identity Across Text and Image in the Eurasian World

Jane Buckhurst (Princeton), A “Languid Soul Ignited”: Tatyana’s Sojourn in Eugene Onegin

Kate Sheldon (Princeton), The Joke’s on Us: Comedy and Tragedy in “Diary of a Madman”

Mariia Pankova (Bard), Formation of National Identity in Modern Kyrgyzstan as seen Through the Visual Art of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Period

2:45 – 4:15 PM   SESSION 2: Inner Crisis and Literary Form: Spiritual and Ethical Transformation in Russian Narratives

Katherine Lee (Princeton), A Woman’s End: Guilt, Revelation, and Audience in “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District”

Yang Ge (Princeton), Tolstoy’s Finger: Spiritual Crises and Epiphanies in "Father Sergius"

Penelope Effron (Princeton), Abandoning Eugene Onegin: An Analysis of the Novel’s Final Moments

Ellie Belkin (Princeton), Absolute Language and Death in “Alyosha the Pot"

4:45 – 5:45 PM   KEYNOTE: Dr. Lidia Tripiccione (Princeton), "Mushroom Lovers and Copyright Laws: On Scholarly Fields and Book Circulation in the Cold War"

DAY 2 (April 5)

10:00 – 11:15 AM   SESSION 3: Imperial Legacies, Past and Present

Julia Kotes (Bryn Mawr), In Name Only: A Qualitative Socio-Onomastic Assessment of Patronymics in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

Dasha Igonin (Haverford), War, Migration, and Ethnic Identity: Perceptions of Russian Migrants in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan After 2022

Lucas Blakeslee (Princeton), Fighting as Living in Hadji Murat: Toward Tolstoy's Hierarchy of Being

11:30 – 12:45 PM   SESSION 4: Constructing the Soviet Screen: Cinematic Aesthetics and Ideologies

Deniz Heiz (Princeton), The Thaw of Masculinity in Shepitko's Wings

Yi Luo (Princeton), Through Ivan’s Eyes: Grief in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

12:45 – 2:00 PM   LUNCH + SLAVIC OPEN HOUSE

2:00 – 3:15 PM   SESSION 5: Complicity and Catharsis: Narratives of Guilt, Identity, and Power in Russian and Soviet Contexts

Nikki Han (Princeton), The Murderer as Child: Guilt in Nikolai Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Suvali Chadha (Princeton), From Complicity to Liberation: Tolstoy’s Use of a Transformative “I”

Jack Leydiker (Yale), Gratitude at Gunpoint: Soviet Representations of Kazakh Veterans of the Second World War

3:45 – 5:00 PM   SESSION 6: Language and Its Limits: On the Disintegration and Redemption of Meaning in Dostoevsky, Shklovsky, and Tolstoy

Ava Chen (Princeton), “The Valley of Jehoshaphat”: Decomposing Dostoevsky’s “Bobok”

Natasha Wipfler-Kim (Princeton), Miscommunication and Silent Unity in Tolstoy’s “Master and Man”

Lynn Kong (Princeton), Crumpled Time, Seraphic (Re-)Visitations: The Radiance of Paratext in Shklovsky’s Zoo, or Letters not about Love

5:15 PM   Concluding Remarks

6:30 PM   Music Recital featuring Emma Simmons (Princeton), Mathey College

7:30 PM   Reception (Slavic Department, East Pyne)

Sponsored by:
the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

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