Levis Faculty Center, 4th Floor
919 West Illinois Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Monday, May 21st
8:30 Breakfast
9:00-11:20 Panel 1, Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, (Chair)
Julia Dasbach, University of Pennsylvania: “Tracing the Traceless: Trauma, Translation & the Archive”
Lizy Mostowski, University of Illinois: “The Problem of Being a Polish-Jew: The Post-Holocaust Poland of Julian Tuwim & Avrom Sutzkever”
Diana Sakilowski, University of Illinois: “Reimagining Lost Times and Positing Communities: The Work of Memory in Piotr Szewc’s Zagłada”
Harriet Murav, University of Illinois (Respondent)
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Amelia Glaser, University of California, San Diego (Keynote Talk): “Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine, 1929”
2:00-2:30 Coffee Break
2:30-4:50 Panel 2, Eugene M. Avrutin, University of Illinois (Chair)
Aleksandra Jakubczak, Columbia University: “Protecting the Jewish Daughters: Moral Panic and the Jewish Anti-White Slavery Campaign, 1880s-1914”
Anastasia Strakhova, Emory University: “Imagining Emigration: Crossing the Borders of Russian Jewry during the Era of Mass Migration, 1881-1917”
LeiAnna Hamel, University of Illinois: “Prostitution and Pollution in Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance and Alexander Kuprin’s The Pit”
Dana Rabin and George Gasyna University of Illinois (Respondents)
Tuesday, May 22nd
8:30 Breakfast
9:00-11:20 Panel 3, Amelia Glaser, University of California, San Diego (Chair)
Josh Meyers, Stanford University: “My Heart Sensed Trouble, and it Came”: A Genealogy of the Bund’s Defeat in the Russian Revolution”
Marina Shcherbakova, Heidelberg University: “Dynamics of Collection and Museal Representation of Jewish Culture in Ukraine (1917-1941)”
Frankee Lyons, University of Illinois, Chicago: “Imagining Post-Stalinist Socialism in Poland: Destalinization and Jewish Youth at the Fifth World Festival of Youth and Students, Warsaw 1955”
Eugene M. Avrutin, University of Illinois (Respondent)
11:30-1:00 Lunch
Presentation by Joseph Lenkart (Slavic Reference Service, University of Illinois)
1:00-3:20 Panel 4, Harriet Murav, University of Illinois (Chair)
Jason Wagner, University of Michigan: “The Semantics of Form in Moyshe Kulbak’s Modernist Polymetric Poemas, Di Shtot and Raysn”
Tyler Dolan, University of Illinois: “A Space Between: Sovereignty, violence, and the breaking body in post-World War 1 literature of the borderlands.”
Alexandre Gontchar, Harvard University: “In the Ravine of Russian Capitalism: Chekhov and the Dissimilated Language of “Jewish” Difference”
Amelia Glaser, University of California, San Diego (Respondent)
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 Concluding Thoughts