EASTERN MANIFESTATIONS OF WESTERN IDEAS
– OR VICE VERSA?
The Case of Russia and the Balkans
University of Helsinki, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40B
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, August 20
8.30-9.00
Registration, Metsätalo, 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
Nathanaëlle 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) Pälsi’s Bosnia: A Finnish
Ethnographer’s 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 Könönen (University of Helsinki) Breaking the Diary
Norm: Gogol’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ and European Diary Fiction
Sami Sjöberg (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 Bely’s
Novel ‘Petersburg’ and the European Modern
Kirsti Ekonen (University of Tampere) On the Genealogy of
Russian Modernism: the Role of Zinaida Vengerova
Chair: Maija Könönen
2
16.00-17.00
room 13
Gender and Sexuality
Sirkku Terävä (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 Suonpää (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
3
16.00-17.30
room 13
Philosophical Concepts on the Move
Alexandra Smith (University of Edinburgh) The Poetics of
Estrangement: The Artistic Manifestations of Bergson’s 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 Andrić’s
Novel ‘The Damned Yard’ in the Context of European Aesthetics
Sanna Turoma (University of Helsinki) Joseph Brodsky, Venice,
and Homi Bhabha’s ‘Third Space’
12.00-13.30
Lunch break
13.30-14.30
room 4
Through the Iron Curtain
Simo Mikkonen (Stanford University/University of Jyväskylä)
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 Österberg (University of Helsinki) The Functions of Music in
Aleksei Balabanov’s Film ‘Brat’
Dragana Cvetanović (University of Helsinki) On Glocalisation in
Serbian Hip Hop Texts
Chair: Krista Berglund
15.45-16.00
Break
4
16.00-17.00
room 14
Popular Culture II
Henriette Cederlöf (Södertörn 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