Interdisciplinary Conference: "Masculinity in Russia" (Preliminary Conference Schedule, 10-14 June, University of Illinois )

"Masculinity in Russia": Interdisciplinary Conference
10-14 June, University of Illinois

http://www.ewu.edu/csbs/depts/HIST/Phillips/Conference.html

Summer Research Laboratory on Russian and Eastern Europe
All Sessions Held in the West Lounge of Illini Towers
409 E. Chalmers, Champaign

Preliminary Conference Schedule

Monday, 10 June 
            1:00--1:45
Welcome, Introductions, and Comments on the Study of Russian Masculinity 

Welcome by Laura Phillips (Eastern Washington University) and Diane Koenker (University of Illinois) 
  
Introductory Comments by Dan Healey (University of Wales Swansea) 
            
            1:45-2:00--Break 
            2:00-3:30--Paper Discussions 

Rebecca Friedman (Florida International University), "What Makes a Russian Man Manly? Masculinity and Russian-ness in the Nineteenth Century" 

Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky), "Red and White Manhood: Masculinity and Identity in Memoirs of the Russian Civil War" 

Tuesday, 11 June 


            8:30-10:00--Paper Discussions 

Brian J. Baer (Kent State University), "Watching the Detective: Performing Masculinity in the Novels of B. Akunin" 

Jeremy Dwyer (Monash University), "Masculinity, Power, and National Identity in Contemporary Russian detektiv Fiction" 

            10:00-10:30--Break 
            10:30-12:00--Paper Discussions 

Kenneth Slepyan (Transylvania University), "Masculinity Behind Enemy Lines: Masculinity and Identity in the Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944" 

Laura Phillips (Eastern Washington University), "Feminine Virtue, Feminine Threat: Russian Masculinity Through War and Revolution" 
            Evening Reception at the home of Diane Koenker 


Wednesday--12 June 


            8:30-10:00--Paper Discussions 

Choi Chatterjee (California State University, Los Angeles), "Masculine Construction of the American Observers of the Russian Revolution" 

Vera Gouchtchina (Voronezh State University), "Rethinking the Russian Male Folk Type on the Works by Alexei Kol'cov" 
            10:00-10:30--Break 
            10:30-12:00--Paper Discussions 
Elena Gapova (European Humanities University, Minsk), "Post-Soviet Masculinity as Class" 
Laura Olson (University of Colorado, Boulder), "Defining Masculinity: The Buddy Film in Russian Cinema of the 1990s" 

Thursday, 13 June 
            8:30-10:00--Paper Discussions 
Sara Ashwin (London School of Economics) and 
Tatyana Lytkina (Syktyvkar Pedagogical Institute), "Men in Crisis: The Role of Domestic Marginalisation"

Sada Aksartova (Princeton University), "Family Strategy Against Gender Strategy: Residence and Housework in the 1990's Russia" 

            
            10:00-10:30--Break 
            10:30-12:00--Paper Discussions 

Serguei Oushakine (Columbia University), "The New Russian Man: (A)voiding the Self" 

Maria Putrova (Polatsk State University), "Male Silence in Belarusian Culture" 

Friday, 14 June 

            9:00-10:30--The Future Study of Russian Masculinity 

Concluding remarks by Diane P. Koenker (University of Illinois, editor of Slavic Review), followed by a general discussion 


  
  


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