Periodicals in the Slavic World. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Venue: Seidlvilla, Nikolaiplatz 1b, 80802 München + Zoom

Concept and Organization: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach (Ilja Kukuj, Riccardo Nicolosi, Brigitte Obermayr, Tilmann Reuther)

For the Zoom-link, please register by emailing sekretariat.nicolosi@slavistik.uni-muenchen.de

PROGRAM

Thursday, Oct 21:
Philology Journals Today: In and on Slavic Cultures

9:30: Welcome & opening remarks
9:45: Aage Hansen-Löve (Vienna) / Tilmann Reuther (Klagenfurt): How the Story Began and the Reasons for its Amazing Long Run. On the Wiener Slawistischer Almanach

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00 Round table 1: Philology Journals in Slavic Cultures Today

Chair: Riccardo Nicolosi (Munich)

Participants:

• Jasmina Vojvodić (Zagreb), Editor-In-Chief of Umjetnost riječi (The Art of Words)
• Oleh Kotsyuba (Boston), Director of Product, Web and International Representative of Krytyka, Thinking Ukraine and publisher of Harvard Ukrainian Studies
• Anna Nasiłowska (Warsaw), Deputy Editor-In-Chief of Teksty drugie (Second Texts)
• Irina Prochorova (Moscow), Editor-In-Chief of Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Observer)
• Richard Müller (Prag), Editorial Board of Česká Literatura

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 Round table 2: Academic Journals of Slavic Studies today

Chair: Brigitte Obermayr (Potsdam)

Participants:

• Serguei Oushakine (Princeton), Associate Editor of The Russian Review
• Ellen Rutten (Amsterdam), Editor-In-Chief of Russian Literature
• Schamma Schahadat (Tübingen), Co-Editor of Die Welt der Slaven
• Barbara Sonnenhauser (Zurich), Editor-In-Chief of Russian Linguistics

Friday, Oct 22:
On the History of Periodicals in Russian Culture

Chair: Ilja Kukuj (Munich)

9:00: Andrej Kostin (St Petersburg): Смерть продает: частная русская периодика XVIII века и публичная сфера
9:45: Alexandr Sobolev (Moscow): Эволюция стихотворного раздела в журналах русского модернизма

10:30-10:45: Coffee break

Chair: Tilmann Reuther (Klagenfurt)

10:45: Brigitte Obermayr (Potsdam): Montage: Changing Device and Aesthetics (1920s compared to Late Soviet Practices)
11:30: Evgeny Dobrenko (Venice): Журнал как институция в сталинской литературной культуре

12:15-14:00: Lunch break

Chair: Aage A. Hansen-Löve (Vienna)

14:00: Josephine von Zitzewitz (Tromsø): New Russian Literature and Online Journals
14:45: Ann Komaromi (Toronto): Dissident Truth-Telling and Samizdat Periodicals

15:30-15:45: Coffee break

15:45: Yasha Klots (New York): Contraband Russian Literature in Tamizdat Periodicals of the 1960s: Generation Gap and the Cold War Engagement
16:30: Ilya Vinitsky (Princeton): Вестница Европы: журнал В.А. Жуковского в контексте русской культуры XIX в.