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Ann Arbor, April 21-23, 2006
All meetings in the Koessler Room, at the Michigan League

Friday, April 21, 2006 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Socialism I / Chair: Benjamin Frommer

9:00 Frank Hadler (GWZO Leipzig), Becoming a Historian in
Socialist Czechoslovakia

9:45 Michal Kopeček (Endicott College/Institute of Contemporary History, Prague), Rethinking Marxism-Leninism? Intellectual
History & Marxist Revisionism in Czechoslovakia & Central Europe

10:30—10:45 Break

Socialism II / Chair: Paulina Bren

10:45 Jonathan Larson (U of Michigan): Reading Central European Politics: Socialization to Literature Past and Present

11:30 Eagle Glassheim (U of British Columbia), Landscapes Lost and Found: Post-War Czech and German Visions of Home in
Czechoslovakia’s Borderlands

12:15—2:00 Lunch

Music and Cinema / Chair: Herb Eagle

2:00 Kevin Johnson (U of Washington), Čechy and Böhmen: The
Codification and Co(m)modification of Czech Lands in the
Czech-German Multiple Language Film Versions of the 1930s

3:00 Derek Katz (U of California @ Santa Barbara), Back to Bach and
on to Whiteman: Neoclassicism, Jazz and Prague Musical Politics

3:30—3:45 Break

3:45 Organized Chaos I—Darling Data Festival
Chair: Melissa Feinberg

Paulina Bren (Vassar College)

Melissa Feinberg (U of North Carolina)

Benjamin Frommer (Northwestern U)

Cynthia Paces (College of New Jersey)

4:45 Organized Chaos II—Why Czech Studies
Chair: David Cooper

David Cooper (U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Masako Fidler (Brown U)

Marek Nekula (Universität Regensburg/Harvard U)

Hana Pichova (U of Texas)

6:00 End of sessions

7:00 Dinner for invited workshop participants at Bella Ciao Restaurant

Saturday, April 22, 2006 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Surrealism’s Beginnings and Ends / Chair: Andrew Herscher

9:00 Jindřich Toman (U of Michigan), How Nezval Dissolved the
Surrealist Group and How the Surrealists Complained

10:00 Derek Sayer (U of Lancaster), Choices of Abdications: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and ‘The Magic Capital of Old Europe’

11:00 Patrick Moran (U of Michigan), Evolution of an Avant-Garde:
Framing Czechoslovak Surrealism after Teige

12:15—2:00 Lunch

2:00 Organized Chaos III—A First Republic Reader
Chair: Jonathan Bolton

Jonathan Bolton (Harvard U)

Peter Bugge (U of Aarhus)

Peter Zusi (Harvard U)

2:45 Organized Chaos IV—Modernism Round Table
Chair: Matthew Witkovsky

Naomi Hume (Seattle U)

Nicholas Sawicki (Art Institute, Chicago)

Matthew Witkovsky (National Gallery, Washington)



5:00—6:30 Reception

Sunday, April 23, 2006 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Literature / Chair: Hana Pichova

9:00 Xavier Galmiche (Sorbonne), Canonical or Classical Literature?
The Boomerang Effect of Social Sciences on the Interpretation of Literary Works

10:00 Peter Zusi (Harvard U), Consciousness and Conflict:
Rilke’s Prager Geschichten

11:00 Kirsten Lodge (Columbia U), The Insidious Poison of Degeneration: Vampires in Czech Decadence

Contact Information

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
3040 Modern Languages Bldg., 812 E. Washington
Main line: (734) 764-5355

Professor Toman’s direct line: (734) 647-4260
Professor Jindrich Toman: (734) 945-1441 (cell)