108 N. Jefferson Street (next to the Hotel Roanoke)

Friday, May 18

All Sessions are in the Buck Mountain Room, Hotel Roanoke

9:00 -10:15

Session 1: Conceptions of Subjectivity and Communication

Gala Argent, Ph.D. candidate in Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester , Leicester , UK

"A Herd of Two: The Influence of Intersubjectivity between Horses and People on Ideology and Identity in Iron Age Southern Siberia"

Ann Kleimola, Professor of History, University of Nebraska

"A Legacy of Kindness: V. L. Durov's Revolutionary Approach to Animal Training"

Facilitator: Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech

10:30-12:00

Session 2: Real and Symbolic Animals in the Soviet Project

Katherine Frierson, Professor of History, University of New Hampshire

"Soviet Chimeras: Animals in Official Rhetoric and Personal Narratives in the History of Children of the Enemies of the People"

Andy Bruno, Ph.D. Candidate in Russian History, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign

"Soviet Uses and Representations of Reindeer: The Cooptation of a Saami Animal on the Kola Peninsula"

Arja Rosenholm, Professor of Russian, Tampere University , Finland

"On Men and Horses: Animal Imagery and the Construction of Russian Masculinities"

Facilitator: Jane Costlow, Bates College

Lunch Break

1:30-2:45

Session 3: Folklore and Everyday Life

Olga Glagoleva Resident Fellow, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto

"Woman's Honor, or the Story with a Pig: Everyday Life in the 18th-century Russian Provinces"

Mikhail Alekseevsky, Lead Researcher,
The State Republican Centre of Russian folklore, Moscow

"Treating "The Other Animals": Russian ethnoveterinary in context of folk medicine"

Facilitator: Roy Robson, Professor of History, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

3:15-5:00

Session 4: The Wolf, the Bear and the Beast: Contradictions of Imperial Russia

Ian Helfant, Associate Professor of Russian, Colgate University

"That Savage Gaze: The Contested Portrayal of Wolves in Nineteenth-Century Russia"

Jane Costlow, Professor of Russian, Bates College

"For the bear to come to your threshold: human-bear encounters in late Imperial Russian writing"

Amy Nelson, Associate Professor of History, Virginia Tech

"The Body of the Beast: Animal Protection and Anti-Cruelty Legislation in Imperial Russia"

Facilitator: William B. Husband, Professor of History, Oregon State University

Saturday

May 19

9:00-10:00

Session 5: Aesthetic Animals

Katherine Lahti, Professor of Russian, Trinity College

"On the Animal in Mayakovsky's Poetry"

Facilitator: Jane Costlow, Bates College

10:15-12:00

Session 6: Boundary Work: Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet "Humanimals"

Daria Kabanova, Ph.D Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Illinois

"The Animal Watches You: Identity "after" History in Tatiana Tolstaya's The Slynx"

"The Human Dog Oleg Kulik: Satire in Post Soviet Animalistic Performances"

"'Life of Ferret' and the 'Manimal' in post-Soviet Russian Literature"

Facilitator: Ian Helfant, Colgate University

12:15-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:30

Session 7: Round Table and Final Discussion: How "Other" are the "Other Animals"?

Jane Costlow, Professor of Russian, Bates College

Amy Nelson, Associate Professor of History, Virginia Tech

Nigel Rothfels, Director, Edison Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Facilitator: William B. Husband, Oregon State University

7:00-9:00

Conference Dinner (participants only)

Nawab Indian Cuisine

118-a Campbell Avenue