Panel 1.       DEVILS, GHOSTS, MAGICIANS, AND PROMETHEUS

Moderator: SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (Princeton University)

ILONA KISS (Russian Institute for Advanced Study / Sholokhov State University in Humanities, Moscow)
Prometheus vs. Woland: Transacting Sotsromantizm between Hungary and the USSR

PHILIP GLEISSNER (Princeton University)
The Art of Wandering while Standing Still: Romantic Delusions in the Prose of Stagnation

YVONNE HOWELL (University of Richmond)
From Sots-Rom to the Rom-Com: How “Ponedel’nik nachinaetsia v subbotu” Became “Charodei”

ALAINA LEMON (University of Michigan)
After “Kinoglaz,” Post “Ochi Chernye”: the Magical Gaze in Late Soviet Worlds

Image: Konstantin Vasil’ev, Chelovek s filinom, 1976.