15 May, Friday
09:30 – Introduction by Penelope Simons (Head of School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Sheffield, UK) and Evgeny Dobrenko (University of Sheffield, UK)
10:00 – 11:45 PANEL 1: BETWEEN DISCIPLINES
Chair: Evgeny Dobrenko
Jan Levchenko (National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Russia)
The Blind Theory: Russian Film Studies between Petersburg Formalism, Prague Structuralism, and Its Moscow-Tartu Successors
Zoran Milutinovic (University College London, UK)
Russian Formalist Dramatic Theory
Katerina Clark (Yale University, USA)
Viktor Shklovskii, Nikolai Trubetskoi and Nomadism
Patrick Sériot (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Roman Jakobson and the Linguists' Poetry
Coffee
12:00-13:45 PANEL 2: BETWEEN VISIONS
Chair: Natalia Skradol
Ilya Kalinin (Smolny College, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)
A War of Languages: Shklovsky vs. Jakobson
Petr A. Bílek (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Roman Jakobson Between the Poles of ”Gehobenes Kulturgut“ vs. ”Gesunkenes Kultrugut“ in 1930s Czechoslovakia
Tomáš Glanc (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Prague Structuralism against Russian Formalism: Figures of Denial of Intellectual Heritage
Evgeny Ponomarev (Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Russia)
Marxist Versions of Formalism: Grigory Gukovskiy and György Lukács
Lunch
14:30-16:00 PANEL 3: BETWEEN HISTORIES
Chair: Katerina Clark
Sergei Zenkin (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Russian Formalism and the Idea of History
Tomáš Hoskovec (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Atlas du structuralisme européen classique: Methodological Reflections on Grasping a Scientific Past
Bohumil Fořt (Institute for Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Literary History Between Russian Formalism and the Prague School
Coffee
16:15-17:45 – KEYNOTE
Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
The Memory of Theory: Russian Formalism and Its Legacy
16 May, Saturday
09:00 – 10:45 PANEL 4: BETWEEN CULTURES (1)
Chair: Marci Shore
Hans Günther (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
How Russian Formalism Came to Germany (the 1960s and 1970s)
Josip Užarević (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Russian Formalism and the Zagreb Stylistic School
Robert Gáfrik (Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
The Formal Method in Slovak Literary Studies
Tamás Scheibner (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary)
Hungarian Structuralism in the Making: Challenging Realist Aesthetics in the 1960s
Coffee
11:00 – 12:45 PANEL 5: BETWEEN CULTURES (2)
Chair: Tamás Scheibner
Mihhail Lotman (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Formalist Traditions in Tartu Semiotics
Loreta Mačianskaitė and Dalia Satkauskytė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius University)
Episodes of Russian Formalism in Lithuanian Culture
Alexander Dmitriev (National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Ukrainian Formalism: Theme and Variations
Andrzej Karcz (Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Polish Literary Studies from Formalism to Structuralism
Lunch
13:45 – 15:30 PANEL 6: BETWEEN PHILOSOPHIES
Chair: Petr A. Bílek
Dušan Radunović (University of Durham, UK)
The Return of the (Aesthetic) Object: Towards a Reevaluation of Russian Formalism on the Principles of Systematic Aesthetics
Marci Shore (Yale University, USA)
To Break the Spell of Automatization: Ostranenie, Obnazhenie, and the Phenomenological Epoché
Ondřej Sládek (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno)
From Formalism to Structuralism: The Epistemological Basis of Jan Mukařovský´s and Roman Jakobson´s Poetics
Peter Steiner (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Formalists and Bakhtin: Interactive Intellectual Matrix and Game Theory
Coffee
15:45 – 17:00 PANEL 7: BETWEEN THE MODERN AND THE (POST-)
Chair: Peter Steiner
Aage Hansen-Löve (University of Munich, Germany)
From Roman Jakobson's Linguistic Turn to Postverbal Mediality
Tomáš Kubíček (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic)
With Roman Jakobson from Formalism to the 21st Century
Igor Pilshchikov (Moscow State University, Russia / Tallin University, Estonia)
A Web Resource on Moscow Linguistic Circle: New Primary Data and Research Tools