About Slavic Conferences
Graduate students in the Slavic Department regularly organize conferences on topics of interest. These conferences provide an opportunity to interact with graduate students from other U.S. universities and abroad, as well as with established scholars who serve as keynote speakers and discussants.
Conference Themes
Conference themes are proposed by Princeton graduate students, generally in their third year of study.
Previous Conference Themes
2009: Pushkin/Anti-Pushkin
2010: Undoing Eros: Love and Sexuality in Russian Culture
2012: Literary Theatricality: Theatrical Text (click for poster)
2013: Conceptualizing the Human in Slavic and Eurasian Culture
2014: Dumpster Diving and Sustainability
2015: Philosophy and Literature: In Search of Lost Synergy
2016: In Media Res: Intermediality and the Borders of 20th Century Culture
2017: Grafting the Self
2022: The Byt of Literature, Literary Personalities, Scholarly Disclosures, and the Modes of Their Production
2023: TBA
Conference Funding
Students are eligible for funding to travel to national conferences to present papers. Fourth- year students who go abroad to do dissertation research are encouraged to apply for non-Princeton fellowships.