International conference

Lost and Found in Translation:
Concepts of History, Culture and Self in Interdisciplinary Scholarship of
Modern Russia

Cummings Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies
Wednesday-Friday, 23-25 December 2009
at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem
Tel. 02-5605216
further information: julial@vanleer.org.il

Wednesday, 23 December
10:00-11:00
Greetings
Prof. Gabriel Motzkin, Head, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Dr. Alon
Rachamimov, Director, The Cummings Center for Russian and East European
Studies, Tel Aviv University

Opening remarks
Julia Lerner and Igal Halfin, Academic Directors

11:00-11:50
Translation and Non-Translatability (1): Disciplinary Approaches
Chair: Julia Lerner

Nikolay Koposov: History and History of ideas Anna Wierzbicka: Linguistic
Anthropology

11:50-12:15 Break / Перерыв

12:15-13:30

Translation and Non-Translatability (2): Disciplinary Approaches
Chair: Alon Rachamimov

Natalia Avtonomova: Philosophy of Language Nikolay Ssorin-Chaikov:
Sociology and Anthropology Mikhail Epstein: Culture Theory

13:30-14:30 Lunch / Обед

14:30-16:30

Sense of Concepts (1): New Arrivals in Russian Discourse
Chair: Julia Lerner

Dina Khapaeva: Pragmatic Turn
Elena Zdravomyslova: Gender
Alexander Etkind: Inner Colonization

16:30-17:00 Break / Перерыв

17:00-19:30

Untranslatable Words on Social Relations
Chair: Igal Halfin

Leona Toker: Dohodyaga in the Gulag and the Musselman (in Nazi Camps)
Sveta Roberman: Halyava: Freebie?
Elena Zdravomyslova: Tusovka: Hangout?
Anna Fishzon: Melomany, Poklonniki, любители: Fandom?
Alexei Yurchak: American Stiob (late-socialist aesthetics of parody)

Thursday, 24 December

9:00-14:30
Tour of Jerusalem

15:00-17:00

Private Talk
Chair: Alon Rachamimov
Anna Wierzbicka: Happiness and other Active Emotions Claudia Zbenovich:
Child and Yeled (Israeli word for child) Igal Halfin: Communist Self?
Julia Lerner: Emotions and Rabota nad soboi (Self-work)

17:00-17:15 Break
17:15-19:15
Sense of Concepts (2): Old Words and New Meanings in Russian Discourse
Chair: Julia Lerner

Nikolay Ssorin-Chaikov: Foucauldian Power and Governmentality Natalia
Avtonomova: Psychoanalysis Nikolay Koposov: History of Memory Paradigm
Sergeiy Sandler: Bakhtinian Speech and the Other

Friday, 25 December

9:30-11:30
Concepts of Social Order between Official and Ordinary Discourse
Chair: Igal Halfin

Vera Kaplan: Public
Katya Pravilova: Public Good
Sergei Oushakine: Post Soviet Patriotism
Yitzhak Brudny: Nation and Nationality

11:30-11:45 Break / Перерыв

11:45-13:30

Categories of Absence, Imperfection and Backwardness
Chair: Igal Halfin

Mikhail Epstein: Kak by(As if, like), usor (Trash) nedo- (Under-)
Julia Lerner: Lzhe i psevdo (Pseudo)
Sergei Oushakine: nostal'giia po sovetskomu (Soviet Nostalgia)
David Stromberg and Boris Dralyuk: Untranslation (perevod naoborot)

13:30-13:45 Closing remarks
Festive lunch

Lost and Found in translation

Workshop participants

Natalia Avtonomova, RGGU and EHESS (Russia and France)
Yitzhak Brudny, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Mikhail Epstein, Emory University (USA)
Alexander Etkind, Cambridge University (UK)
Anna Fishzon, Williams College (USA)
Igal Halfin, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Dina Khapaeva, Helsinki Collegium for Advances Studies and Smolny College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Finland and Russia)
Nikolay Koposov, Helsinki Collegium for Advances Studies and Smolny
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Finland and Russia)
Julia Lerner, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and The Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute (Israel)
Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University (USA)
Katerina Pravilova, Princeton University (USA)
Sveta Roberman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Sergeiy Sandler, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
Nikolay Ssorin-Chaikov, Cambridge University (UK)
David Stromberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) (co-authored
with Boris Dralyuk, UCLA)
Leona Toker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Anna Wierzbicka, The Australian National University (Australia)
Alexei Yurchak, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Claudia Zbenovich, Hadassah College (Israel)
Elena Zdravomyslova, European University in St. Petersburg (Russia)