{"id":300,"date":"2025-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/?p=300"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:59:47","slug":"queer-russian-literature-undergraduate-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/2025\/12\/15\/queer-russian-literature-undergraduate-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Russian Literature Undergraduate Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Saturday, December 6th, the Russian Language and Area Studies department hosted the first Queer Russian Literature Undergraduate Conference at St. Olaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The event consisted of two student panels followed by a keynote from Katharina Wiedlack<\/a> (University of Vienna). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Six amazing students from Prof. Dossi’s Queer Russian Literature<\/a> <\/em>(RUSSN 330) delivered presentations on a variety of queer Russophone authors, some of whom you might not know, but many more that you will want to discover!\u00a0After the panels, Katharina Wiedlack delivered her keynote address, titled “New Cold War Cultures and Russian Vulnerable Subjects.” The presentations and keynote were followed by a small reception catered by Tasteful Delights<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel 1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Maggie Walker “Mikhail Kuzmin’s Wings<\/em>: A Platonic Fable”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parker Chelikowsky “Pederasty and Mikhail Kuzmin\u2019s Wings<\/em>“<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maria Leyva “Having an Idol Doesn\u2019t Always End Well: Sergei Esenin and His Followers”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Panel discussion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Panel 2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Emily Kleiber “From Fantasy to Reality: The Collapse of Queer Desire in Marina Tsvetaeva\u2019s Letter to the Amazon<\/em>“<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cayla Chun “Queerness is Russian: Aesthetic Revolt from Modernism to the 1990s”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Panel discussion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yaz T. delivered a talk entitled “\u0426\u0432\u0435\u0442\u044b \u0438 \u0428\u043f\u0430\u0433\u0438: Dichotomy of Gender in Marina Tsvetaeva\u2019s work.” We won’t post a picture of Yaz to protect their anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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