The North American Chekhov Society

Thursday, October 7, 2004
Roberts Union
Colby College—Waterville, Maine

8:30-10:15 a.m., Robins Room Chekhov and Other Writers	8:30-10:15 a.m., Whitney Room Narrative Twins
Mark Conliffe, Willamette University "Everyday Life in Siberia: Chekov and Korolenko" John Barnstead, Dalhousie University "The Reception of Chekhov in English Canadian Poetry" Rajko Igic, Hospital of Cook County (Chicago) "Could Chekhovian Humanism Help Us Today?"	Marijeta Bozovic, Colombia University "Lost Opportunities and Narrative Circling in Po delam sluzhby" Martin Bidney, SUNY Binghamton "Chekhov’s Deconstructive Epiphanies" Bella Grigoryan, Columbia University "Sound Sequences as Narrative Device in Sluchai iz praktiki" Radik Lapushin, University of Chicago "To Live and not to Live: The Finale of V rodnom uglu"
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Robins Room Chekhov and Death	10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Whitney Room The Orchard Flourishes
Galya Rylkova, University of Florida "Cold Winds of Tragedy" Erica Siegel, Columbia University "Narrative Autopsy in Chekhov’s Po delam sluzhby" George Pahomov, Bryn Mawr College "Chekhov: Of Time & Entropy"	Ralph Lindheim, University of Toronto "The Cherry Orchard: Chekhov’s Praise of Folly" Ronald LeBlanc, University of New Hampshire "The Cherry Orchard as Metacomedy" Jerome Katsell, Independent Scholar "The Cherry Orchard: A Meditation on Mortality"
1:45-3:30 p.m., Robins Room Chekhov’s Drama	1:45-3:30 p.m., Whitney Room Chekhov and Film
Stuart Young, University of Auckland "Re-siting Chekhov in Britain: A Scottish Uncle Vanya" Inna Caron, Ohio State University "Why is There No Doctor in The Cherry Orchard?" Nina Tyurina, Northwestern University "Spenders and Savers in Uncle Vanya"	Vera Zubarev, University of Pennsylvania "Four Funny Families" Laura Strausfeld, Playwright (New York) "The Slav Bazaar: A New Biopic about Chekhov and Suvorin" Marina Madorskaya, University of Michigan "Text within the Text: Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street"
4:00-5:30 p.m., Robins Room Chekhov’s Prose	4:00-5:30 p.m., Whitney Room The Legacy of Chekhov’s Drama
Vladimir Golshtein, Brown University "Art, Rhetoric, and Power (Chekhov's ‘Chorus Girl’)" Wallace Sherlock, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater "The Pastoral Motif in Chekhov’s Stories" Steve Shaklan, Columbia University "Little Trilogy’ as a Style Guide for the Successful Story" Ghalina Kislik, Cornell University "Narrative Interplay in Chekhov’s Duel"	Cynthia Marsh, University of Nottingham "The Lower Depths in America" Cole M. Crittenden, Princeton University "Three Sisters and the Mistake of Counting: Chekhov & Bergson" Allan Reid, University of New Brunswick "Riding in a Cab with Chekhov and Petrushevskaia" Ruth Rischin, Independent Scholar "Killing the Seagull: Thomas Pasatieri’s Opera Version"