at the Australian National University
Canberra
Thursday 4 February, Friday 5 February 2010
Draft Program (REVISED 2 Feb. 2010)
All proceedings will take place in the lecture theatre of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Ellery Crescent, Building 127.
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Thursday 4 February
9.30 Opening: Professor Alexander Dmitrievich Grishin
Dr John McNair (ANZSA President)
9.45-10.45: Language
Anna Gladkova: Cultural models of ‘time’ in Russian
Anna Wierzbicka: Russian emotions, happiness à la russe
10.45 Tea/coffee break
11.15-12.45: Language and Culture
Toshinobu Usuyama: Social and Linguistic Research into the Preservation of the Ethnic Language and Culture of Russians in Australia
Peter Hill: Bosna revisited. The state of the Bosnian language in Australia
Mary Besemeres: The Family in Exile, Between Languages: Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation, Lisa Appignanesi’s Losing the Dead, Anca Vlasopolos’s No Return Address
12.45 Lunch
2.00-3.30 History and Politics
Stephen Fortescue: Russia’s political and economic prospects in 2010
Anna Taitslina: Conservative liberalism or liberal conservatism: the debate on
Chicherin and liberalism from Struve to present-day Russia
Elena Govor: 'The Russian Mutiny at Nuku Hiva, the Marquesas, 1804'.
3.30-3.45 Tea/coffee break
3.45-4.45 History and Politics (cont.)
Ludmila Stern: “Prisonnier d’amitié”. Jean-Richard Bloch and his Soviet correspondents (1925-1947)
Kevin Windle: Ferrying the Faithful: The m.v. Smolny, its captain and its passengers in 1929-38.
7.00 DINNER
Friday 5 February
9.00-11.00 Literature
David Wells: Shelley in the Russian Symbolist Imagination
John McNair: Plays for the Times: Boborykin on the Russian stage in the 1890s-1900s
Marko Pavlyshyn: Poet and Martyr: The Reputation of Vasyl Stus
Judith Armstrong: Tolstoy and the Proposal
11.00 Tea/coffee break
11.15-12.45 Literature (cont.)
Vadim Rossman: Under the Canopy of Russian Muses:
Yuri Kato: О первом переводе «Капитанской дочки» Пушкина на японский язык
Rosh Ireland: Two satirical footnotes to history: Two comedies from the 1920s repertoire of the Moscow Satire Theatre.
12.45 Lunch
2.00-3.30
Mark Swift: Психопатология отношений в "Попрыгунье" А.П. Чехова.
Robert Lagerberg: ‘Home, Sweet Home’: The Significance of the Apartment in the Film Little Vera (Маленькая Вера)
Linda Bowman: Corporate taxes in Silver Age Russia and Progressive Era America.
3.45 ANZSA Business Meeting
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Miscellaneous:
There is no registration fee. It may, however, be necessary to levy a small charge to cover the cost of tea, coffee etc.
To assist with arrangements, recipients are asked to notify Kevin Windle as soon as possible (Kevin.Windle@anu.edu.au):
(a) if they plan to attend the conference;
(b) if they plan to attend the conference dinner on Thursday 4 February, 7.00 p.m.;
(c) if so, if they have any special dietary requirements.
A booking has been made at the Spicy Ginger Café, corner of Childers St & Hutton St, next to UniLodge. The ‘banquet’ selected will cost $28.80 per head. The restaurant is fully licensed. BYO is also permitted. Vegetarian and Vegan diets can be catered for, but those requiring such dishes will need to place separate orders.
Transport from airport.
A taxi will take 15 to 20 minutes from the airport to the ANU campus. The fare may be $25 or $30.
The AirLiner bus
The AirLiner bus service operates between Canberra City and Canberra Airport, Monday to Friday, every 30 minutes and on Saturday and Sunday approximately every hour. From the Bus Interchange in Canberra City to the colleges on the far side of the ANU campus is about 20 minutes’ walk. A one-way ticket is $9; $15 return
For more timetable and pricing information visit www.airliner.com.au or contact Deanes Buslines on
T: 02 6299 3722
E: travellerinfo@deanesbuslines.com.au
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Visitors to Canberra may like to know of the current exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia: ‘Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cézanne and beyond. Post-Impressionism from the Musée d’Orsay.
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Dr Kevin Windle, Kevin.Windle@anu.edu.au
(61) (02) 6125 2885