2001 California Graduate Slavic Colloqium
University of Southern Califonia (Los Angeles, USA), April 7-8, 2001.

April 7

9 a.m.
Breakfast (Kerkhoff Hall)

9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel 1
Russia Between East and West
(Kerkhoff Hall)

Chair: Michael Heim (UCLA)

1. Susanna Lim. The Representation of the Mongol Tartars in Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublyov (UCLA)

2. Ingrid Kleespies. East West Home is Best: The Grand Tour in Fonvizin's "Pis'ma iz Frantsii" and Karamzin's "Pis'ma russkogo puteshestvennika" (UCB)

3. Daria Chakhlova. The Theoretical Postulates of Pasternak The Translator (USC)

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch (Kerkhoff Hall)

1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Panel 2
Russian Modernism: Aesthetics, Psychology, Philosophy
(Kerkhoff Hall)

Chair: David Frick (UCB)

1. John Narins, Pasternak's "Rukonog" Cycle (UCLA)

2. Sara Warren Mikhail Larionov's Homegrown Exoticism: A Dialogue with Primitivist Modernity." (USC)

3. Tomi Huttunen "Imaginist Montage of Anatoly Mariengof" (University of Helsinki, Finland).

4. Kristin Vitalich, "Khlebnikov and Schizophrenia." (UCLA)

5. Michelle Kelly, "Mechanical Beings: The Interplay of Engineering and Animism in Platonov's Human and Non-Human Machines" (UCLA)

5 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
"From Leningrad to Saint-Petersburg: Soviet and Russian Youth in Photographs"
The opening of the exhibition (USC Religious Center)

6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Experimental Russian Films and Video, 1993-2000
(Taper Hall, Room 210) [sponsored by USC and Finnair]
Curator: Marya Godovannya (Anthology Film Archive/Brooklyn College, New York).

Phantom Hopes. The First Episode by Andrei Silvestrov and Pavel Lobazov (1999)
Air Creatures by Leonid Tishkov (2000)
Funeral of The Christmas Tree by Leonid and Sergei Tishkov (2000)
Socrates once said… by Andrei Murashov (1999)
Quran by Vadim Kouzenkov (1999)
Postindustrial Dreams by Dmitrii Trofimov (1995)
Video Trash by Dimityi Trofimov (1999)
16 mm by Sonia Nelubina (2000)
Taaroa by Vadim Kouzenkov (1995)
A Hatch by Blue Soup (1999)
Thunderstorm by Blue Soup, (1999)
Center by Blue Soup (1999)
A Horse, A Violin... And A Little Nervously by Erina Evteeva (1993)

April 8

9 a.m.
Breakfast (Kerkhoff Hall)

9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel: Poetry and Truth (Kerkhoff Hall)
Chair: Marcus Levitt (USC)

1. Jon Kyst, "Joseph Brodsky in 1963-1964" (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

2. Sonja Kerby, "Narrative voice, life story, and gender in Nadezhda Durova's 'Igra sud'by' " (UCB)

3. Nora Ryan. Lev Zak's Kommentarii tishiny (UCLA)