Book Arts, Culture and Media in Russia, Eastern Europe and
Eurasia:
From Print to Digital
June 17-18, 2006
Conference Goals • Steering Committee • Call for Papers
Conference Goals: The 2006 Forum (and pre-conference events)
will celebrate the achievements of book arts, culture and the media in Russia,
East Europe and Eurasia, and discuss political challenges. It will also probe
access mechanisms and research approaches facilitated by technology. International
experts will join younger practitioners in providing a comprehensive overview
of the field. Members of the steering committee include:
Steering Committee:
Mikhail Afanas’ev (Director, Historical Library, Moscow)
David J. Birnbaum (Professor & Chair, Dept. of Slavic Langs. & Lits.,
U. Pittsburgh)
Melissa Frazier (Associate Professor, Russian, Sarah Lawrence College)
John Randolph (Assistant Professor, History, UIUC)
Miranda Remnek (Head, Slavic & East European Library, UIUC) [Chair]
Juergen Warmbrunn (Director, Herder Inst. Library, Marburg)
Janet Zmroczek (Director of European Collections, British Library, London)
Call for Papers: Papers have been invited on traditional approaches
to the study of manuscript/print culture in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia,
including studies of publishing, libraries, and bibliography. We have also sought
papers on digital applications: new technology, software; emerging research
approaches; expanding digital initiatives and partnerships (especially projects
that seek to apply technology to the study of manuscript/print culture). The
full program is now available, though
it may still be possible to include a couple of late submissions. If interested,
send paper title, brief abstract (100 words), and short CV to the international
steering group c/o Miranda Remnek, Slavic Library (mremnek@uiuc.edu).
Fisher Forum Program
Friday June 16 (6.00-9.00 pm)
Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois Street 3 long blocks east of Illini Union (location
on campus map)
6.00-7.00 pm: Special Pre-Conference Lecture (Levis,
Third Floor)
Welcome and Introduction:
Paula Kaufman, University Librarian,
UIUC
Marianna Tax Choldin, Mortenson Distinguished
Professor Emerita, University of Illinois
"Closing and Opening and Closing
and Opening: Reflections on the Russian Media"
7.30-9.00 pm: Candlelight Buffet Supper (Levis,
Second Floor)
Turkish and Central Asian music provided by
Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov from the Balkanalia Ensemble (Director: Donna Buchanan)
DIGITAL APPLICATIONS: Twentieth
Century to the Present
Chairs: Peter Pozefsky (History, Wooster College) Mary Stuart (Library, UIUC)
9.00-10.00: Invited theme speaker:
Ralph Cleminson (Slavonic Studies, Univ.of Portsmouth,
UK)
"Perspectives in Descriptive Bibliography"
9.00-10.00: Invited theme speaker:
Leonid Borodkin (Faculty of History, MGU)
"New Technologies and Analytical Approaches in Digital Scholarship
in Eastern Europe, Twentieth Century to the Present"
BREAK
BREAK
10.30-12.15: PANEL
Ann Kleimola (History, Univ.
of Nebraska, Lincoln)
"Icons as an Open Book: The Case of Obonezh'e"
Sandor Foldvari (Debrecen Univ.) (to be confirmed)
"Old Printed Cyrillic and Glagolitic Books in Roman Catholic
Church Libraries in Hungary"
Sandra Levy (Library,
Univ. of Chicago)
"Resources for the Teaching of Early Slavic History"
10.30-12.15: PANEL
Nadia Zilper and Rita Van Duinen (Library, Univ. of
North Carolina)
"Russia Beyond Russia Digital Library: History, Concept and Development"
Michael Biggins (Library, Univ. of Washington)
"Digitizing the William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection"
Patricia Hswe (Library, UIUC)
"Digitizing the Zdenka and Stanley B. Winters Czech and Slovak
Poster Collection, 1920-1991"
12.15-1.30: Lunch on your own
Conference Session II:
1.45-5.00
(Room 210) Session IIA
DIGITAL APPLICATIONS: Medieval/Early
Modern
Chairs: Ralph Mathisen (History, UIUC) Kevin Hawkins (Library, Univ. of Michigan)
(Room 406) Session IIB
PRINT CULTURE: Twentieth
Century to the Present
Chairs: Ben
Eklof (History, Indiana Univ.) Jurgen Warmbrunn (Herder Institute)
1.45-2.45: Invited theme speaker:
David J. Birnbaum (Slavic, Univ. of Pittsburgh)
"Digital Applications for Slavic Medievalists"
1.45-2.45: Invited theme speaker:
Stephen Lovell (History, King's College, London and
2005 AATSEEL prizewinner: Best Book in Literature and Culture!)
"Twentieth-century Russian Print Culture: Current Status and Future
Directions"
BREAK
BREAK
3.15-5.00: PANEL
Tsvetana Dimitrova (Norwegian Univ. of Science and
Technology, Trondheim)
"A Minimal Tagset for the Old Bulgarian Nominal Phrase"
Kiril Ribarov (Charles Univ., Prague)
"Digital Preservation of MSS/Early Printed Books"
Sergei Pavlov (Music and Library, UIUC)
"Using Project IDEEP for Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies"
3.15-5.00: PANEL
Annie Fisher (Slavic, Univ. of Michigan)
"Adapting Paratextual Theory to the Soviet Context: Publishing
Practices and the Readers of Il’f and Petrov’s Ostap Bender Novels"
Katia Rogatchevskaia (British Library)
"Metropolis vs 'Colonies': Russian-Language Publishing in the
Provinces of the Russian Federation and Outside Russia: Publishing Trends
and Collection Development Issues"
Albert Kulla and Peter Oleksak (Journalism,
Catholic University, Ruzomberok, Slovak Republic)
"Print Media in Slovakia in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries"
6.30-7.30: Banquet (Colonial Room, Illini Union)
7.45-8.45: Special Banquet Keynote!
Introduction: Barbara J. Ford, Director and Distinguished Professor,
Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, UIUC
Jeffrey Brooks (Johns Hopkins University)
"An Illustrated Lecture on Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Russian
Books and Prints, 1860-1930"
Sunday, June 18
(9.00 am-5.00 pm)
Illini Union, Rooms 210 and 406
Conference Session III:
9:00-12.15
(Room 210) Session IIIA
DIGITAL APPLICATIONS: Eighteenth
& Nineteenth Centuries
Chairs: John Randolph (History, UIUC) Melissa Frazier (Russian, Sarah Lawrence
College)
(Room 406) Session IIIB
PRINT CULTURE: Future
Developments
Chairs: Robert Burger (Library, UIUC) Diana Greene (Library, NYU)
9.00-10.00: Invited theme speaker:
Igor Pil'shchikov (Moscow State Univ.):
"The FEB approach to Electronic Publishing and Other Eighteenth-
and Nineteenth-century Russian Projects"
9.00-10.00: Invited theme speaker:
Mikhail Afanas'ev (Historical Library, Moscow)
"Sotsiologicheskie prognozy otnosheniia naseleniia k chteniiu
i bibliotekam"
BREAK
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10.30-12.15: PANEL
Marcus Levitt (Slavic, USC)
"The Methodological Advantages of Publishing Eighteenth-century
Russian Texts Digitally"
Kevin Kain (History, Texas A&M Univ.-
Texarkana)
"Late Nineteenth-century Russian Old Believer Books and New Digital
Technologies"
Katia Rogatchevskaia (British Library)
"The British Library Collection of Russian Emigré Publications from
the Nineteenth Century To The Present, and Prospects for its Digitization"
10.30-12.15: PANEL
Karen Rondestvedt (Library, Stanford Univ.)
"Collecting of Central Asian Publications by U.S. Libraries: Current
Practice and Future Prospects"
Harry Leich (Library of Congress)
"Modern Greek Collections at U.S. Libraries: New Directions"
Oksana Zavalina (GSLIS, UIUC)
"Libraries and Librarianship in Ukraine: Current Situation
and Future Developments"
12.15-1.30: Lunch on your own
Conference Session IV:
1.45-5.00
(Room 210) Session IVA
PRINT CULTURE: Eighteenth
& Nineteenth Centuries
Chairs: Michael Biggins (Library, Univ. of Washington) Mollie Cavender (History, Ohio State Univ.)
(Room 406) Session IVB
DIGITAL APPLICATIONS: Future
Developments
Chairs: Ralph Cleminson (Slavonic Studies, Univ. of
Portsmouth) Tom Habing (Research Programmer, UIUC)
1.45-2.45: Invited theme speaker:
Juergen Warmbrunn (Herder Institute, Marburg)
"Research on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Print Culture
in Eastern Central Europe: Present Directions, New Challenges"
1.45-2.45: Invited theme speaker:
Kiril Ribarov (Charles Univ., Prague)
"Future Needs and Approaches in East European Digital Scholarship"
BREAK
BREAK
3.15-5.00:PANEL
George Gutsche (Slavic, Univ. of Arizona)
"Dinner at Smirdin's: Pushkin and Print Culture of the 1830s"
Anne Lounsbery (Slavic, NYU)
"Dissemination, Circulation, Infection: Printed Texts in Dostoevsky's
Demons and Diary of a Writer"
Sharyl Corrado (History PhD Program, UIUC)
"The Truth about Sakhalin: Censorship and the Struggle for Sakhalin's
Image in Late Imperial Russia"
3.15-5.00: PANEL
Kevin Hawkins (Library, Univ. of Michigan)
"The Peaceful Coexistence of Print and Digital Media, with Special
Consideration of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies"
Andy Spencer (Library, Univ. of Wisconsin)
"Future Trends and Prospects for Slavic Digital Projects in the
U.S. "
TBA
6.30-9.00: Farewell Cookout
REGISTRATIONINFORMATION
REGISTRATION
The Fisher Forum (June 17-18) is being held in conjunction with three other
events: the Slavic Digital Text Workshop (June 15), the Slavic
Librarians' Workshop (June 15), and the Reading Culture seminar
(June 16).
1. If you plan to attend the Forum, you should submit the FISHER FORUM REGISTRATION FORM.
Please fill in and send as an e-mail attachment to Lynda Park, Assistant Director,
UIUC Russian, East European & Eurasian Center at lypark@uiuc.edu
or fax to (217) 333-1582.
2. If you plan to attend any of the three associated events (workshops or seminar),
you should merely notify Miranda Remnek mremnek@uiuc.edu
3. You do not need to register for the UIUC Summer Research Lab for any
of these events unless you plan to conduct several
days research using the Library, or seek a housing grant.
FEES
No registration fee will be charged for the Forum or pre-conference events,
except for the Digital Text Workshop ($25, payable on arrival).
TRAVEL
Except for invited speakers (and a small number of younger colleagues on stipends),
travel will be at the expense of participants.
UIUC is located about 140 miles south of Chicago. For those unfamiliar with
Urbana-Champaign, please note that our small airport is close to the cities
(about 3 miles). Taxi service is available. Several airlines serve Champaign-Urbana
(CMI): American (though Chicago O'Hare), Delta (through Cincinnati)
and Northwest (through Detroit). American (jet service) from
O'Hare takes about 30 mins; Northwest (propeller service) from Detroit,
over an hour.
HOUSING
Again, except for invited speakers (and a small number of younger colleagues
on stipends), housing will be at the expense of participants. The conference
hotel is the Hampton Inn north of campus, about 7 blocks from the Illini Union
(conference location, at the north end of the Quad). Conference rate is $79.
Attendees are responsible for making reservations. Please call (217) 337-1100
or 1-800-HAMPTON (426 7866). Please quote the conference code, Group Code FFM.
A second option is the Illini Union itself at $86 a night (217 333-1241). If
you use this option, please make your own reservations.
Less expensive options: Researchers who intend to stay for several days to
take part in UIUC’s Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe
& Eurasia (http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/srl/srl.html)
will be eligible for cheap housing at $46 a night at the Illini Tower on campus
(near the Library at the south end of the Quad). This rate is for a private
room in a shared suite. *The Russian Center will make this reservation*. Researchers
may also be eligible for free housing. Applications will need to include
(1) a plan for a longer research stay, and (2) a policy-relevant research proposal.
Such proposals may qualify for up to 8 days (14 for graduate students) free
lodging in a newly-refurbished dormitory.
Other inexpensive housing--such as the Hendrick House Dormitory, about 4 blocks
east of Illini Union--is described here.
If you use this option, please make your own reservations.
MEALS
The Thursday reception and the Friday evening candlelight
supper, both with wine, are free to all conference
registrants.
The Saturday evening banquet, also with wine, is free
to all presenters, chairs and special guests.
Other conference registrants who wish to attend the banquet will be asked to
contribute $25, payable at the door, in cash or by check made out to the University
of Illinois.
The Sunday evening cookout at the home of Miranda Remnek will be free
to all conference registrants (those who remain in town!)
Support for this Forum and associated events is provided
by UIUC's Russian, East European and Eurasian Center; the University of Illinois
Library; the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library & Information
Science (GSLIS); Bernard Quaritch Ltd (Rare Books, London, UK); the Central
and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL); East View Information Services;
EBSCO Information Services; MIPP International (Moscow Independent Press Publishing);
Stanley B. and Zdenka Winters; Hal and Mary Zirin; and the William and Flora
Hewlett International Endowment.
