Program 2011

Full Program

Including both participant only and public (as marked) events
Friday, April 22

At Kelly Writer’s House (3805 Locust Walk, Penn Campus):

9:15-9:45am: Coffee and Pastries

9:45-10:00am: Opening Remarks/Operating Instructions

10:00-11:00am: Small Group Translation Workshop I

11:00-11:15am: Break

11:15am-12:15pm: Small Group Translation Workshop II

12:15-12:30pm: Break

12:30-1:30: Small Group Translation Workshop III

At Max Kade Center (3401 Walnut St., rm. 329A—34th and Walnut St., above the Starbucks):

2:00pm: Lunch for Symposium Participants

3:00-4:30pm: Large Group Translation Workshop

5:00-6:30pm: Keynote Lecture by Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse) in Fisher-Bennett Hall (34th and Walnut St., rm 401) (PUBLIC EVENT):

The Task of Translation and the Notion of the Contemporary in Russian Poetry

6:30pm: Dinner-Reception for Participants in Fisher-Bennett Faculty Lounge

 

Saturday, April 23, 2011

(ALL SATURDAY EVENTS OPEN TO PUBLIC)

At Max Kade Center (3401 Walnut St., rm. 329A—34th and Walnut St., above the Starbucks):

9:00-9:30am: Coffee and Pastries

9:30am-12:00pm: Session I: Charles Bernstein (UPenn) Moderates

  • Eugene Ostashevsky (NYU): “The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bevvtifvl Arkadii Dragomoshchenko”
  • Stephanie Sandler (Harvard): “Repetition, Resistance, Narrative”
  • Polina Barskova (Hampshire College): “Writing Poetry after the Siege of Leningrad: Montage, Ekphrasis, Allegory”

12:00-1:30pm: Lunch for Participants

1:30-4:30pm: Session II: Ian Probstein (Touro College) Moderates

  • Kevin M. F. Platt (UPenn): Eccentric Orbit: Latvia in Russian Poetic Space
  • Matvei Yankelevich (UDP): Locations of Dissent: Three Poets in the Russian Capitol (on Fanailova, Kuzmin, and Medvedev)
  • Michael Wachtel (Princeton): The National and the Supranational in Contemporary Russian-Language Poetry

5:00-7:00pm: Grand Public Poetry Reading in College Hall, rm. 200 on the UPenn campus

7:15: Closing dinner reception for Participants and Guests in Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall

 

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