2023 Kalbouss Innovative Approaches to Slavic Cultural Studies Lecture: Dr. Tatiana Smorodinskaya

March 3, 2023

5:30PM - 7:30PM

Ohio Staters, Inc. Founders Room, Ohio Union

Add to Calendar 2023-03-03 17:30:00 2023-03-03 19:30:00 2023 Kalbouss Innovative Approaches to Slavic Cultural Studies Lecture: Dr. Tatiana Smorodinskaya Join SEELC for the 2023 Kalbouss Innovative Approaches to Slavic Cultural Studies Lecture. Dr. Tatiana Smorodinskaya (Middlebury College) will present "Russian Literary Canon(s) and Teaching Russian Literature". Dinner will be served at 5:30pm and the talk will begin at 6:00pm. Abstract: For many decades, until the fall of the Soviet Union, several versions of the Russian literary canon coexisted in the West and in the USSR, and often had few overlaps. Now, we are at the same separation point again. The “canon wars” and calls for decolonization of the curriculum in the US have no support in contemporary Russia. On the contrary, we observe the return of a prescribed national canon, and enhanced ideological control over the school curriculum and over the cultural paradigm in general. Should we pay attention to the new emerging literary canon in Russia? What do we want our students to know? Why do we choose one text over another? Which factors should influence our decisions? Ohio Staters, Inc. Founders Room, Ohio Union Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures slavicdept@osu.edu America/New_York public

Join SEELC for the 2023 Kalbouss Innovative Approaches to Slavic Cultural Studies Lecture. Dr. Tatiana Smorodinskaya (Middlebury College) will present "Russian Literary Canon(s) and Teaching Russian Literature".

Dinner will be served at 5:30pm and the talk will begin at 6:00pm.

Abstract:

For many decades, until the fall of the Soviet Union, several versions of the Russian literary canon coexisted in the West and in the USSR, and often had few overlaps. Now, we are at the same separation point again. The “canon wars” and calls for decolonization of the curriculum in the US have no support in contemporary Russia. On the contrary, we observe the return of a prescribed national canon, and enhanced ideological control over the school curriculum and over the cultural paradigm in general. Should we pay attention to the new emerging literary canon in Russia? What do we want our students to know? Why do we choose one text over another? Which factors should influence our decisions?