2008 Fisher Forum
Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
An International Conference of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
June 19-21, 2008
Free and Open to the Public
210 Illini Union on June 19th
Foreign Language Building, Lucy Ellis Lounge, on June 20-21
The 2008 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum on Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, beginning at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 19 and concluding on the evening of Saturday, June 21. The topic of this years forum, which will begin with a keynote address from Ronald Suny, followed by four panels of international and US scholars, is Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia. It will bring together the University of Illinois faculty with colleagues from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Hungary, and Germany whose interests include Slavic literary and cultural studies, psychology, art history, languages, history, gender studies,
anthropology, and sociology,.
The conference is a multidisciplinary exploration of the construction, expression, and representations of emotion in central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia from the end of the eighteenth century to the present, especially in public life, as well as a critical consideration of how we approach the study of affect, feeling, and emotion. Only relatively recently have scholars begun to study systematically and deeply emotional perception and expression as not merely “private” inward feeling but as ways of interpreting and judging the external world and acting in it. These papers, by an international group of scholars in varied disciplines who are engaged in pioneering work in this field, examine questions of emotional
subjectivity and emotional subjecthood, from both a theoretical- comparative and contextualized perspective. Among the emotions to be examined and discussed are love, hate, pity, shame, loss, nostalgia, fear, disillusionment, despair, and anger, especially as they are entwined with social, cultural, and political life. Regions of the world explored concern a variety of locations and groups in central and eastern Europe, Ukraine and Russia, and Central Asia.
See http://www.reec. uiuc.edu/ events/fisher. html for more information, as well
as participant’s papers available for reading prior to the conference to ensure deeper and more extensive intellectual exchange. Each presenter will discuss their paper for 15 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of open discussion.
***PROGRAM** *
Thursday, June 19:
210 &Colonial Room, Illini Union
1401 W. Green St., Urbana
5.00–6:30 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks: Richard Tempest (REEEC; Slavic Languages and Literatures, Illinois) 210 Illini Union
Keynote Address: Ronald G. Suny (History, Michigan) “Thinking About
Feelings: Affective Dispositions and Emotions in the Study of the Past"
210 Illini Union
6:30 pm
Reception: open to the public
Colonial Room, Illini Union
Friday, June 20
Foreign Languages Building, Lucy Ellis Lounge (first floor)
707 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana
9:00–9:15 am
Opening Remarks: Mark Steinberg (History, Illinois) and Valeria Sobol
(Slavic, Illinois)
9:15 am–12:45 pm
Session 1
Chair: Valeria Sobol (Slavic, Illinois)
Andrei Zorin (Literature, Oxford), “Leaving your Family in 1797: Two
Identities of Mikhail Murav’ev”
Ilya Vinitsky (Literature, Pennsylvania) , “Amor Hereos, or The Occult Roots
of Russian Romantic Psychologism”
Victoria Frede (History, UC Berkeley), “Radicals and feelings in the 1860s:
Dmitrii Pisarev”
Lyudmila Parts (Literature, McGill), “Principle Christian Emotion: Pity in
Crime and Punishment”
Break
2:00 pm–5:30 pm
Session 2
Chair: John Randolph (History, Illinois)
Anna Fishzon (History, Williams)," Fan Letters, Melodrama, and the Meaning
of Love "
Alexandra Oberlaender (History, Humboldt, Berlin), “Shame and Modern
Subjectivities”
Glennys Young (History, Washington), “Bolsheviks as Emotion Managers From
October to the Eve of World War II”
Anna Krylova (History, Duke)," Emotional Geographies of Shared Combat:
Combat Bonding and Interpretations of Comradely "We" at the Soviet Front,
1941-1945"
Saturday, June 21
Foreign Languages Building, Lucy Ellis Lounge (first floor)
707 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana
9:15 am–12:45 pm
Session 3
Chair: Laurie Johnson (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois) Roann
Barris (Art History, Radford), “Architectures of Memory and Counter-Memory:
Berlin and Bucharest”
Polly Jones (Literature, University College London), “Between Consciousness
and Spontaneity: Representing Responses to Terror in Soviet Literature of
the Post-Stalin Period”
Serguei Oushakine (Anthropology and Literature, Princeton), “Notes of War
and Despair: Wars, Songs, and Soldiers”
Andrea Petö (Gender Studies, Central European Univ., Budapest),
“Historicizing Hate: Divided Memory about the Holocaust by Female Victims
and Perpetrators”
Break
2:00–5:30 pm
Session 4
Chair: Mark Steinberg (History, Illinois) Natalie Kononenko (Cultural
Studies, Alberta), “Mourning the Death of the Soviet Union: The Case of
Ukraine”
Carol Silverman (Anthropology, Oregon), “Music, Emotion, and the ‘Other’:
Balkan Roma and the Negotiation of Exoticism”
Jack Friedman (Anthropology, Semel Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA),
“Histrionic Citizens and Emotional Entitlements: The Emotional Lives of
Romania’s Downwardly Mobile”
Judith Pintar (Sociology, Illinois), “Sheltering Stone and Bits of Bone:
Emotion, Collective Remembering, and the Built Environment in Dubrovnik”
5:30-6:00 pm
Closing discussion
Jodi Kirby
Program Coordinator
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center University of Illinois
104 International Studies Building, MC-487 910 South Fifth Street Champaign,
IL 61820 217.333.6022; fax 217.333.1582 jakirby@illinois. edu http:// www. reec.illinois. edu
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