ANZSA Conference

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