Конференция, посвященная
50-летию Бахметьевского архива (Колумбийский университет)

Conference Program

Thursday, October 11
Rare Book and Manuscript Library

6:30-9:30
Reception and keynote address
James Billington, Library of Congress
Tour of the Bakhmeteff exhibit - "Charles Richard Crane"

Friday, October 12
New York Public Library (Trustees Room)

9:00-9:15 Welcome from Dr. Leclerc

9:15-11:15 I. Archival Rossica/Sovietica Abroad - Provenance, Collection Development Policies, and Information Needs

Panel chair: Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (Harvard University)
Participants: Oleg Budnitsky (Russia), Andrei Popov (Russia), Joseph D. Dwyer (Hoover Institution), Thomas Bird (Queens College, CUNY)
Discussant: Richard Davies (Great Britain)

Topics will include: Challenges and changes in collection development in post Cold War environment; Intellectual property rights; publication needs and problems; Access to international resources; Bakhmeteff: Intellectual Legacy in American and Russian Collections.

11:15-11:30 Break (coffee, tea)

11:30-1:30 p.m. II. Nation and Empire - Reconceptualization in Emigre Thought

Panel Chair: Marc Raeff (Columbia University)
Participants: Aleksander Semionov (Russia), Sergei Glebov (Rutgers University), Igor Torbakov (Russia), Greta Slobin (UC Santa Cruz)
Discussant:Mark von Hagen (Columbia Univeristy)

Topics will include: The liberal concept of nationalism, and the "discovery" of nationalism after 1917; The nation and nationality within and without empire; The formation of diaspora identity; History as battleground of national identity construction; Culture and nationalism.

1:30-3:00 Lunch (on your own, at the City University Graduate Center Cafeteria)

3:00-5:00 III. The Concept of Divided Archives: Problems and Approaches

Panel chair: Johnathan Brent (Yale University)
Participants: Maciej Siekierski (Hoover Institution), Sergei Mironenko (Russia), Robert Scott (Columbia University), Evgeniia Ivanova (Russia)
Discussant: Meg Bellinger (Preservation Resources)

Topics will include: Use and dissemination of Russian and East European emigre holdings in the U.S; New technologies and archival routine; Repatriation issues - solving the unsolved problems; Virtual collections: online access and digitization.

Saturday, October 13
Kellogg Conference Center
15th Floor, SIPA, Columbia University

9:00-11:00 IV.In the Public Service: Slavic collections and the Emigre and Academic Communities

Panel chair: Marianna Tax Choldin (University of Illinois)
Participants: Robert Davis (NYPL), Jared Ingersoll (Columbia University), Eugene Gollerbakh (Russia), Galina Mikheeva (Russia)
Discussant: Robert Whittaker (Lehman College, CUNY)

Topics will discuss: History and development of New York Area Slavic Library collections; Emigre scholarship and scholarship on emigration; Development of the Slavic specialist studies and resources; Russian Studies on emigration from scholarship and resource point of view.

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15:1:15 V. Russian and East European Emigre holdings in the U.S. and Its Relationship to Western Scholarship

Panel chair: Harlow Robinson (Northeastern University)
Participants: Norman Saul (University of Kansas), Pavel Bazanov (Russia), Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College)
Discussant: Anatol Shmelev (Hoover Institution)

Topics will include: The Russian diaspora contribution to general scholarship in U.S.; Nabokov and his American years; A Russian Odyssey in America (Dobuzhinskii); Russian theme in the American cinema and the contribution of Russian emigres to Hollywood culture, Mikhail Chekhov's holdings in the Bakhmeteff Archive

1:30-2:30 Lunch (on your own)

2:30-3:30 VI. Summary session: The State of the Field and Possibility of an Institutional Cooperation

Multisided discussion on the topics of the conference, and outline of future actions

Moderators: Richard Wortman, Edward Kasinec

3:30-4:00 Summary and Conclusion Marc Raeff

4:00-5:30 Reception