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
