INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The conference is open to the public. To facilitate discussion, authors will introduce their papers with brief presentations. We therefore encourage all participants to read the full texts of the papers, available below. Texts will become available as they are submitted to the REEEC.

Conference Program

Thursday, June 19

210 &Colonial Room, Illini Union
1401 W. Green St., Urbana

5.00–6:30 p.m.

Welcoming Remarks

Richard Tempest (REEEC; Slavic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)

Keynote Address

Ronald G. Suny (History, Michigan)

“Thinking About Feelings: Affective Dispositions and Emotions in the Study of the Past"

210 Illini Union

6:30 pm

Reception

Colonial Room, Illini Union

Friday, June 20

Foreign Languages Building, Lucy Ellis Lounge (first floor)

707 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana

9:00–9:15 am

Opening Remarks

Mark Steinberg (History, Illinois) and Valeria Sobol (Slavic, Illinois)

9:15 am–12:45 pm
Session 1

Chair: Valeria Sobol (Slavic, Illinois)
Andrei Zorin (Literature, Oxford) “Leaving your Family in 1797: Two Identities of Mikhail Murav’ev”
Ilya Vinitsky (Literature, Pennsylvania) “Amor Hereos, or the Occult Sources of Russian Romantic Psychologism”
Victoria Frede (History, UC Berkeley) “Radicals and feelings in the 1860s: Dmitrii Pisarev"

Lyudmila Parts (Literature, McGill )“A Principal Christian Emotion: Pity in Crime and Punishment”

12:45–2:00 pm

Lunch Break

2:00 pm–5:30 pm
Session 2

Chair: John Randolph (History, Illinois)
Anna Fishzon (History, Williams) "Fan Letters, Melodrama, and the Meaning of Love "
Alexandra Oberlaender (History, Humboldt, Berlin )“Shame and Modern Subjectivities”
Glennys Young (History, Washington) “Bolsheviks as Emotion Managers From October to the Eve of World War II”
Anna Krylova (History, Duke) "Emotional Geographies of Shared Combat: Comradely Bonds and Nostalgic Attachment between Male and Female Combatants, Eastern Front, 1942-1945"

Saturday, June 21

Foreign Languages Building, Lucy Ellis Lounge (first floor)
707 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana

9:15 am -12:45 pm
Session 3

Chair: Laurie Johnson (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)
Roann Barris (Art History, Radford) “Architectures of Memory and Counter-Memory: Berlin and Bucharest”
Polly Jones (Literature, University College London) “Between Consciousness and Spontaneity: Representing Responses to Terror in Soviet Literature of the Post-Stalin Period”
Serguei Oushakine (Anthropology and Literature, Princeton )“Notes of Despair: Wars, Songs, and Soldiers”
Andrea Petö (Gender Studies, Central European Univ., Budapest) “Historicizing Hate: Divided Memory about the Holocaust by Female Victims and Perpetrators”

12:45-2:00 pm

Lunch Break

2:00–5:30 pm
Session 4

Chair: Mark Steinberg (History, Illinois)
Natalie Kononenko (Cultural Studies, Alberta) “Mourning the Death of the Soviet Union: The Case of Ukraine” (PowerPoint Presentation)

Carol Silverman (Anthropology, Oregon) “Music, Emotion, and the ‘Other’: Balkan Roma and the Negotiation of Exoticism”
Jack Friedman (Anthropology, Semel Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA) “Histrionic Citizens and Emotional Entitlements: The Emotional Lives of Romania's Downwardly Mobile”
Judith Pintar (Sociology, Illinois) “Sheltering Stone and Bits of Bone: Collective Emotion and the Built Environment in Dubrovnik”
5:30–6:00 pm

Closing discussion

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