EASTERN MANIFESTATIONS OF WESTERN IDEAS

OR VICE VERSA?
The Case of Russia and the Balkans
University of Helsinki, Metstalo, Unioninkatu 40B
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, August 20
8.30-9.00

Registration, Metstalo, Entrance Hall

9.00-9.15
room 6
9.15-10.15
room 6

Welcome words, Dr. Henri Vogt and Dr. Juhani Nuorluoto

Keynote:
Prof. Ronelle Alexander (UC Berkeley) Cultural Identity in
Southeastern Europe: Balancing the Global and the Local
Chair: Juhani Nuorluoto

10.15-11.45
room 6

Travellers between East and West

Nathanalle Minard (University of Helsinki) Cross-Cultural
Readings of the Finnish Landscape: Russians and Westerners in
Finland During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Teuvo Laitila (University of Joensuu) Plsis Bosnia: A Finnish
Ethnographers View of the Balkan World in the Early 1900s
Tuomas Hovi (University of Turku) Dracula Tourism

11.45-12.45

Lunch break

12.45-13.45
room 4

Keynote:
Prof. Andrew B. Wachtel (Northwestern University) The Idea of
the National Writer and Its Evolution
Chair: Prof. Dan Ungurianu

13.45-14.45
room 4

Literary Dialogues
Maija Knnen (University of Helsinki) Breaking the Diary
Norm: Gogols Diary of a Madman and European Diary Fiction
Sami Sjberg (University of Helsinki) Dialogue and Exclusion in
Franco-Romanian Avant-Gardes. The Case of Isidore Isou

14.45-15.00

Coffee break

15.00-16.00
room 4

European Influences on Russian Modernism

Judith Wermuth-Atkinson (Columbia University) Andrei Belys
Novel Petersburg and the European Modern
Kirsti Ekonen (University of Tampere) On the Genealogy of
Russian Modernism: the Role of Zinaida Vengerova
Chair: Maija Knnen

16.00-17.00
room 13

Gender and Sexuality

Sirkku Terv (University of Tampere) Bulgarian Feminism in the
1990s: In Between the First World and Third World Feminisms?
Ulla Hakanen (University of Helsinki) In Defence of Difference:
Homosexualities East and West

18.00-20.00

Reception for Participants

Thursday, August 21
10.00-11.00
room 4

Keynote:
Prof. Ranko Bugarski (University of Belgrade) Multiple
Language Identities in Southeast Europe (with a Focus on SerboCroatian)
Chair: Prof. Damir Kalogjera

11.00-12.00
room 4

National Revivals
Juhani Nuorluoto (University of Helsinki) The Emergence of
Slavonic National Standard Languages in19th Century Southeast
Europe
Maria Takala-Roszczenko (University of Joensuu) The
Westernization of the Eastern Orthodox Church Music Tradition
in the 16th-17th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

12.00-13.15

Lunch break

13.15-14.15
room 4

Keynote:
Prof. Damir Kalogjera (University of Zagreb) Ausbau Activities
in Corroboration of Croatian Linguistic Identity
Chair: Prof. Ranko Bugarski

14.15-15.45
room 4

The Balkans between East and West

James Phillips (University of Nottingham) The Eastern
Question Looking West
Mika Suonp (University of Hull) The Impact of Perceptions and
Prejudices on Decision-Making: The Case of British Commercial
Images of the Balkans before 1914
Pilvi Torsti (University of Helsinki) Approaches to Post-Conflict
Past Management in the Former Yugoslavia at the Doorstep of the
EU

15.45-16.00

Coffee break

16.00-17.30
room 13

Philosophical Concepts on the Move

Alexandra Smith (University of Edinburgh) The Poetics of
Estrangement: The Artistic Manifestations of Bergsons Ideas in
Russian Modernist Poetry
Tintti Klapuri (University of Turku) Ideological Times and Places:
The History of the Bakhtinian Chronotope
Ljuba Tarvi (University of Helsinki) Russia: A Polygon for
Testing Western Ideas?
Chair: Ulla Hakanen

18.00-22.00

Get-together

Friday, August 22
10.00-11.00
room 4

Keynote:
Prof. Dan Ungurianu (Vassar College) Flights to and from
Byzantium: The Dynamics of Byzantine and European in
Russian Historical Imagination
Chair: Prof. Andrew Wachtel

11.00-12.00
room 4

Spaces in between
Judith Wermuth-Atkinson (Columbia University) Ivo Andris
Novel The Damned Yard in the Context of European Aesthetics
Sanna Turoma (University of Helsinki) Joseph Brodsky, Venice,
and Homi Bhabhas Third Space

12.00-13.30

Lunch break

13.30-14.30
room 4

Through the Iron Curtain

Simo Mikkonen (Stanford University/University of Jyvskyl) The
Enemy Within? Dissemination of Western Values through US
Cold War Broadcasts
Krista Berglund (University of Helsinki) Criticism of Western
Ideas on Russian Soil. The Case of Igor Shafarevich
Chair: Merja Salo

14.30-14.45

Coffee break

14.45-15.45
room 4

Popular Culture I
Ira sterberg (University of Helsinki) The Functions of Music in
Aleksei Balabanovs Film Brat
Dragana Cvetanovi (University of Helsinki) On Glocalisation in
Serbian Hip Hop Texts
Chair: Krista Berglund

15.45-16.00

Break

16.00-17.00
room 14

Popular Culture II
Henriette Cederlf (Sdertrn University College) Soviet and
Russian Science Fiction as a Link Between East and West
Vadim Chupasov (University of Tampere) Popular Culture:
Borrowing Formulas and Ideas? (The Case of Alternate History)
Chair: Prof. Henri Vogt

17.00

Closing Remarks, Juhani Nuorluoto