RSSThe following is a preliminary program for the 13th Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop and is subject to change.
Thirteenth Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop
University of Chicago, April 23rd, 2010
9:30 am – 3:00 pm
Preliminary Program
9:30-10:00
Valentina Pichugin
“Medieval Russian Literature in Post-Soviet Russia”
10:00-10:30
Bill Darden
“Ungrammatical sentences in original East-Slavic religious writing produced by imitation of bad translations from Greek”
10:30-11:00
William Veder
“There is a Rift in Likhachev’s Textology”
11:00-11:30
David J. Birnbaum, Quinn Dombrowski, Predrag Matejic
“Adventures in Digital Filigranology”
11:30-12:00
Andy Dombrowski
“Orthography and the Jer shift in the Novgorod birch-bark Letters”
12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK
1:00-1:30
David Miller
“The growth of everyday literacy reflected in land documents of the Trinity-Sergius monastery 1400-1600”
1:30-2:00
Christian Raffensperger
“Russian-Polish Dynastic Marriages: A Consanguineous Mess”
1:30-2:00
Brian J. Boek
“Congenital Cruelty or Hereditary Curse: The Divorce of Vassilii III and the Origins of Ivan the Terrible”
2:00-2:30
Elena N. Boek
“Trials of the Three-Handed Mother of God: Framing and Reframing the Miraculous from Serbia to Russia”
2:30-3:00
Ann Kleimola
“Convent, Cossacks, and Local Community: A Tangled Social Relationship”
Contact: Valentina Pichugin, vpichugi@uchicago.edu