INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

314 Illini Union
1401 W. Green St., Urbana

Conference Program

Richard Tempest's post-conference report

Thursday, June 14

4.00–6.00 p.m.

Welcoming Remarks

Donna Buchanan (Director, REEEC; Associate Professor, Music, University of Illinois)

Panel I: The Crosstextual Odyssey of Gleb Nerzhin

Alexis Klimoff (Vassar College): “The Gleb Nerzhin of Love the Revolution” [synopsis]
Michael Nicholson (University College, Oxford): “The Unrounded Circle: Solzhenitsyn’s Return to Prose in the Mid-1950’s” [synopsis]
Richard Tempest (University of Illinois): “Monsters and Mummies, Bulls and Bulldogs: Representations of the Body in The First Circle” [paper]
Chair-Discussant: Pavel Spiwakowsky (Pushkin Institute)

6.30–7.30 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks

Linda Katehi (Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois)

Introductory Remarks

Richard Tempest (University of Illinois)

Keynote Address [webcast]

Mrs. Natalya Solzhenitsyn

"Another Time, Another Burden: Solzhenitsyn after His Return to Russia"

Q&A session to follow her address

Friday, June 15

9.00–11.00 a.m.
Panel II: Solzhenitsyn’s Moral Concerns

Daniel Mahoney (Assumption College): “The Self-Deification of Man: Solzhenitsyn on 'Anthropocentricity' and the Origins of the Modern Crisis" [synopsis]
Edward Ericson (Calvin College): “Solzhenitsyn and Schmemann” [synopsis | paper]
James Pontuso (Hampden-Sydney College): “The Art of Making Us See What Is Right before Us: Solzhenitsyn on the Being of Virtue” [paper]
Chair-Discussant: Patricia Burak (Syracuse University)

11.30 a.m.– 1.00 p.m.

Lunch Break

1.00–3.00 p.m.
Panel III: The Red Wheel as Literature, History, Myth

Svetlana Sheshunova (Dubna International University): “Images of Folk Mythology in The Red Wheel” [paper]

Aleksandr Urmanov (Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University): “The Representation of the Global Lexical Processes of Revolution in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Epic The Red Wheel” [synopsis in English | synopsis in Russian]

Pavel Spiwakowsky (Pushkin Institute): “Lenin and the Devil: The Story of a Meeting That Never Took Place” [synopsis in English | synopsis in Russian]

Chair-Discussant: Alexis Klimoff (Vassar College)

3.00–4:00 p.m.

Documentary video showing

4.00–6.00 p.m.

Round table I: The Literary Contexts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Michael Finke (University of Illinois), Mikhail Golubkov (Moscow State University), Liudmila Saraskina (State Institute of Art Study, Moscow), Pavel Spiwakowsky (Pushkin Institute), Richard Tempest (University of Illinois)
Chair: Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Saturday, June 16

9.00–11.00 a.m.
Panel IV: Solzhenitsyn’s Histories and Histories of Solzhenitsyn

Nadezhda Levitskaia (Russian Social Fund): "Reminiscences of an Invisible Woman" [synopsis]

Liudmila Saraskina (State Institute of Art Study, Moscow): “Writing Solzhenitsyn’s Biography: Experiences and Impressions” [synopsis]

Chair: Mark Steinberg (University of Illinois)

Discussant: Michael Nicholson (University College, Oxford)

11.15 a. m.– 1.15 p.m.
Panel V: Solzhenitsyn’s Fictive Structures and Strategies

Mikhail Goloubkov (Moscow State University): “The Image of the Author as Solzhenitsyn’s Conscious Creation” [synopsis | paper in English | paper in Russian]

Georges Nivat (Université de Genève): "'Hora certa, mors incerta,' Reflections on the Structure of The Red Wheel" [synopsis]

Evgeniia Ivanova (Institute for World Literature, Moscow): "The Choice of Hero and Subject in Solzhenitsyn" [synopsis]
Chair: Harriet Murav (University of Illinois)

Discussant: Richard Tempest (University of Illinois)

1.15–3.00 p.m.
Lunch Break

3.00–4.00 p.m.

Documentary video showing

4.00–6.00 p.m.
Round table II: The Public Contexts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chair: Stephan Solzhenitsyn

Patricia Burak (Syracuse University), Victor Levenstein (Columbus, Ohio), Daniel Mahoney (Assumption College), Harriet Murav (University of Illinois)

6.00 p.m.
Closing Reception

210 Illini Union

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