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Princeton Workshop: "The End of the Story?" Problems and Perspectives of East European Literary Studies (February 8-9, 2013)
| Location: | New Jersey, United States |
| Workshop Date: | 2013-02-08 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2013-01-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
199957 |
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“THE END OF THE STORY?” Problems & Perspectives of East European Literary Studies
Preliminary Program
A two-day workshop at Princeton University
http://easteuropeanliterarystudies.wordpress.com
This workshop is convened to reflect on the future of the East European Literary Studies. The field developed vigorously in the last twenty five years, but it also encountered new challenges. As a field, East European studies emerged in the wake of Communism – as an attempt to promote and demonstrate cultural, historical, and political distinctiveness of the region from the Soviet neighbor. Today the rationale for support of East European studies based on the geopolitical place of the region in a bi-polar world, no longer holds. Because of their economic growth, trade dynamism, and military affiliation with the United States through NATO, many East European countries superseded their regional identification and are now part of the economic and cultural “North.” The workshop is meant to address both the legacy and the perspectives of this situation.
In this workshop we propose to analyze the current status and prospects of the field of East European literary studies in the context of historical, geopolitical and disciplinary changes. We will examine critically the raison d’ętre of the field, review new scholarship, chart the key directions. We will also discuss prospects for graduate training and early postdoctoral research in the current situation of budget constraints coupled with increasingly open possibilities of international communication and creation of international scholarly networks. The meeting would serve as a starting point for creating a network of scholars involved in East European studies.
DAY 1, Friday, February 8, 2013
RESEARCH AND THE FIELD:
Current Scholarship in East European Literary Studies:
Themes, Frameworks, Methodologies, and Intellectual Trends
219 Aaron Burr Hall
9:15-9:30am:
Irena Grudzinska Gross, Serguei Oushakine, and Andrzej Tymowski: Introductions and goals for the workshop
9:30-11:00am
PANEL I: AWAY FROM THE NATIONAL STORY?
Chair: Caryl Emerson (Princeton University)
Michał Paweł Markowski (University of Illinois, Chicago)
From Nation to Fascination
Jonathan Bolton (Harvard University)
Reports on the Death of the National Model
Jessie Labov (Ohio State University, Columbus)
World Theory
11:15am-13:15pm
PANEL II: SCORCHED MAPS
Chair: Margaret Beissinger (Princeton University)
Wendy Bracewell (University College London)
Out of Eastern Europe: New Perspectives in Travel Writing Studies
Edyta Bojanowska (Rutgers University)
The Story Yet to Be Told: Research on Empire in Russian Literary Studies
Izabela Kalinowska Blackwood (Stony Brook)
Polish-Russian Relations within American Academia: from Affiliation to Filiation
Benjamin Paloff (University of Michigan)
East is Always Further East
14:00-3:30pm
PANEL 3: REFRAMING THE STORY
Chair: Serguei Alex. Oushakine (Princeton University)
Beth Holmgren (Duke University)
Reframing the Story
Marci Shore (Yale University)
Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe
Thomas Ort (Queens College)
Intellectual Historical Approaches, Carl Schorske in Prague
3:45-5:45 pm
PANEL 4: MOVING TARGETS
Chair: Petre Petrov (Princeton University)
Sean Cotter (University of Texas, Dallas)
Translation Studies
Alice Lovejoy (University of Minnesota)
Historical and Comparative Directions in East Central European Film & Media Studies
Tomislav Z. Longinović (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
From East European Studies to Vampirology: Notes from the Veteran Field Warrior
6:00 – 6:45 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University): ‘Non-Strategic’ Eastern Europe and the Fate of the Humanities
DAY 2, Saturday, February 9, 2013
THE PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FIELD
Aaron Burr Hall, 216
9:15-9:30am:
Andrzej Tymowski: Goals for today
9:30-11:30am
PANEL V: NEW DIRECTIONS
Chair: Irena Grudzińska Gross
Joanna Niżyńska (Harvard University)
Notes on Polish Studies in the Age of Cultural Globalization
Sibelian Forrester (Swathmore College)
Eastern European Area Studies – From Outside the Area
Roman Koropeckyi (University of California, Los Angeles)
Intellectual Agenda and Practical Prospects
Closed Sessions:
11:45am-13:00pm
SESSION 1: SUMMARY OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Serguei Oushakine
Participants: Beth Holmgren, Wendy Bracewell, Michał Paweł Markowski, Jessie Labov.
2:00 – 3:30pm
SESSION 2: ISSUES IN THE FIELD
Andrzej Tymowski, moderator
3:45-5:00pm:
SESSION 3: SUMMING UP
The Workshop is organized by:
Irena Grudzinska Gross, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University and the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences;
Serguei Oushakine, Director, Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies as well as Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University;
Andrzej Tymowski, American Council of Learned Societies and Warsaw University
Sponsoring Institutions:
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
American Council of Learned Societies
Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, Princeton University
European Cultural Studies Program, Princeton University
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
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