St. Petersburg, Russia: 300th Anniversary, The City as a Cradle of Modern Russia

HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER presents

ST. PETERSBURG : 300TH ANNIVERSARY THE CITY AS A CRADLE OF MODERN RUSSIA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 AND 8, 2003

HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK 11549

HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER Founding Director JOSEPH G. ASTMAN, 1916-1985 STUART RABINOWITZ President, Hofstra University Andrew M. Boas and Mark L. Claster Distinguished Professor of Law M. PATRICIA ADAMSKI Senior Vice President for Planning and Administration Adolph J. and Dorothy R. Eckhardt Distinguished Professor of Corporate Law NATALIE DATLOF Executive Director ROBERT T. SPIOTTO ATHELENE A. COLLINS Performing Arts and Producer of Special Events Projects Development, Budgeting and Office Procedures Associate Directors DEBORAH S. LOM Assistant Director Conferences and Special Events LAUREN CAPO Conference Coordinator DOROTHEA BRICE Senior Assistant to the Director MARJORIE G. BERKO Senior Executive Secretary MELANIE GLADSTONE ’05 MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ ’06 Hofstra Cultural Center Conference Assistants HOFSTRA MUSEUM

PUBLICATIONS

DAVID C. CHRISTMAN Director

TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE

CAMILLE MARRYAT Senior Assistant to the Director ELEANOR RAIT Curator of Collections KAREN T. ALBERT Exhibitions Designer/Preparator MUSIC PROGRAM ROBERT T. SPIOTTO Director DEBORAH S. LOM Assistant to the Director

LEE ZIMMERMAN Editor HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY CULTURAL AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES ALEXEJ UGRINSKY Editorial Consultant THEATER PROGRAMS ALBERT L. PASSUELLO Executive Producer ROBERT T. SPIOTTO Associate Producer

HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER presents

ST. PETERSBURG : 300TH ANNIVERSARY THE CITY AS A CRADLE OF MODERN RUSSIA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 AND 8, 2003 Conference Director George D. Jackson Professor Emeritus of History Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar Hofstra University Stuart Rabinowitz President and Andrew M. Boas and Mark L. Claster Distinguished Professor of Law Hofstra University

Salvatore F. Sodano Chair Board of Trustees Hofstra University

M. Patricia Adamski Senior Vice President for Planning and Administration Adolph J. and Dorothy R. Eckhardt Distinguished Professor of Corporate Law Hofstra University Conference Coordinator Natalie Datlof Executive Director Hofstra Cultural Center

Faculty Conference Committee David C. Christman Hofstra Museum

Nicholas N. Kozlov Department of Economics and Geography

Patricia Heuermann Hofstra Opera Theater Music Department

Alexander Mihailovic Department of Comparative Literature and Languages

Hofstra Cultural Center gratefully acknowledges the support of Hofstra University Bookstore A service of Barnes & Noble Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Office of Dean of the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (HCLAS) Dorothy and Elmer Kirsch Endowment Fund for the Hofstra Cultural Center

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W|ÜxvàÉÜËá `xáátzx St. Petersburg is one of the largest and most important cities in Europe. For Russia in particular, it is the crucible of the great artistic achievements in that country during the 19th and 20th centuries. St. Petersburg is also unique in that it was created out of nothing for the expressed purpose of modernizing or westernizing Russia. Peter the Great founded the city in 1703 to serve as his "Window on the West." It became known in Russia as the "Venice of the North" or the "Northern Palmyra." These names express some of the distinctive qualities of St. Petersburg. Like Venice, the city was constructed on a series of islands and canals; unlike Venice, and in order to be at the closest point to the West, St. Petersburg was situated in the northernmost corner of the Russian state, where ice, floods and fire reigned.

St. Petersburg was loved for its beauty. But the intelligentsia also felt anger and hostility for its forbidding climate and for its symbolic role as the oppressive capital of the Russian empire. By some mysterious alchemy, St. Petersburg became the cradle not only of some of the world's most accomplished writers and musicians, but also the home of some of its most determined revolutionaries.

Today and tomorrow Hofstra University will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg and explore the power it has had and continues to have over its citizens. I welcome you – distinguished guests, scholars, critics, students and colleagues – to join us in what I expect will be an eminently satisfying experience.

Hofstra University has an established record of contributions to its community, in particular, and to the scholarly world, in general, through its impressive list of conferences and symposia devoted to American and European history, literature and artistic accomplishments.

This conference will attempt to follow in this distinguished record by exploring the role of the city of St. Petersburg in the history of Russia.

I thank Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz, without whose support this interdisciplinary approach to the history of St. Petersburg would not be possible. I also thank the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Office of the Dean of Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (HCLAS) and the Hofstra University Bookstore for their support. I am grateful to the Dorothy and Elmer Kirsch Endowment Fund for the Hofstra Cultural Center for its financial support of this undertaking.

I would especially like to thank Natalie Datlof, Conference Coordinator and Executive Director of the Hofstra Cultural Center. Without her help and support, I could never have put this conference together. Professor Alexander Mihailovic of Hofstra University's Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, who is also a participating scholar, made a major contribution to this conference, and as a younger member of the Russian scholarly community, he was able to recommend many of the scholars delivering papers at this conference. Thank you, Alex.

Additional thanks are due to Professor Darra Goldstein of Williams College for designing the Russian Banquet menu, to Associate Director of Performing Arts for the Hofstra Cultural Center Bob Spiotto for developing the Pushkin performance, to The Bronx Opera Company and Hofstra Professor Patricia Heuermann and her opera students for their artistic contributions. My thanks to David C. Christman, Dean of Hofstra’s New College and Director of the Hofstra Museum, and his staff for mounting the art exhibition "Contemporary Art From the Hofstra Museum Collection." And my thanks to Professor Nicholas N. Kozlov of Hofstra’s Department of Economics and Geography for his contribution in the planning stage of the conference.

Thank you also to the members of the Hofstra Cultural Center – Athelene Collins, Deborah Lom, Lauren Capo, Dorothea Brice, Marge Berko and Alexej Ugrinsky.

I would like to thank my assistant, Vipin Varghese. He worked assiduously to get us to this point.

Most of all, I thank my wife Karen. She is the backbone of all I do. Without her tireless efforts, both working on the conference and encouraging me, I could never have reentered the world of scholarship.

George D. Jackson Professor Emeritus of History Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar Conference Director

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Pre-Conference Event

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by Bob Spiotto special appearance by Alexej Ugrinsky musical accompaniment by Herb Bradensten

“Live by the pen; die by the sword.”

A phrase that may be aptly applied to the life of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837).

Known as the Russian Shakespeare, Russia’s national poet, and the first great modern Russian author, Alexander Pushkin is famous for his epic dramatic works. He also wrote poems, epigrams, short plays and children’s stories, all of which relied heavily on the musical qualities of the Russian language. Familiar titles include Boris Godunov, Mozart and Salieri, The Queen of Spades, Ruslan and Ludmilla, Eugene Onegin and The Bronze Horseman.

The greatest poet in Russian history lived his life as if taken directly from that of a romantic character in one of his stories or poems. Greatly influenced by his heritage and by one of the greatest Romantic poets of all time, Lord Byron, Pushkin breathed life, adventure and personal anguish into all his literature. Deeply connected with the city of St. Petersburg, Pushkin combined the knowledge of his native language, blended with raw emotion and romantic ideals.

This enabled Pushkin to evolve into one of the most explosive and influential writers to ever put pen to page.

Monroe Lecture Center Theater California Avenue, South Campus

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.

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YÜ|wtç? aÉäxÅuxÜ J? ECCF 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION and COFFEE Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor South Campus

9 a.m.-8 p.m.

BOOK DISPLAY AT HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE Selected titles relevant to the conference Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center North Campus

9 a.m.-9 p.m.

HOFSTRA MUSEUM EXHIBITION Contemporary Russian Art From the Hofstra Museum Collection October 27-December 23, 2003 Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor South Campus

10 a.m.

OPENING CEREMONY Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor South Campus

Welcome

Stuart Rabinowitz President and Andrew M. Boas and Mark L. Claster Distinguished Professor of Law Hofstra University

Greetings

Honorable Yuriy Naumov Deputy Consul General Consulate General of the Russian Federation New York, NY

Special Address

George D. Jackson Professor Emeritus of History Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar Conference Director Hofstra University “Some Issues in Recent Western Studies of the History of St. Petersburg”

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PANEL I: 18th CENTURY – THE BEGINNINGS James H. Bater Professor of Geography University of Waterloo, Canada “Central St. Petersburg: Three Eras of Economic Development and Change” John Alexander Professor of History University of Kansas “Theater and Theatrics at the Catherinian Court: The Tale of Two Years (1765 and 1766)” Commentator: Gary J. Marker Professor of History SUNY at Stony Brook

1-2 p.m.

LUNCH (on your own) See page 15 for dining facilities.

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE Book signings by featured conference authors Refreshments will be served.

2-4 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS PANEL II-A: 19th CENTURY RUSSIA—THE EMPIRE Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor South Campus Svetlana Evdokimova Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature Brown University “Sculptured History: Images of the Imperial Power in Literature and Culture of St. Petersburg” Anna Geifman Professor of History Boston University “St. Petersburg as the Cradle of Revolution in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Russia” Commentator: Michael Hamm Ewing T. Bowles Professor of History Centre College

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS PANEL 11-B: JEWISH LIFE IN ST. PETERSBURG Student Center Theater Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center North Campus Benjamin Nathans M. Mark and Ester K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities University of Pennsylvania “ ‘A Window on Russia’: St. Petersburg and Its Jews” Michael Stanislawski Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History Columbia University “Osip Mandelstam and St. Petersburg Jewry” Commentator: Olga Litvak Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History Princeton University Sponsored by the Dorothy and Elmer Kirsch Endowment Fund for the Hofstra Cultural Center.

4-6 p.m.

PANEL III: THE ARTS, I Student Center Theater Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center North Campus Anton Glikin Architect, Peter Pennoyer Architects P.C. New York, NY and Ph.D. Candidate, St. Petersburg State University, Russia “St. Petersburg Neo-Classical Ensemble of the 19th Century: Its Peculiarities and Research Problems” Nancy Reynolds Director of Research The George Balanchine Foundation New York, NY “Dance in St. Petersburg” Commentator: Edward Kasinec Chief Librarian, Slavic and Baltic Division The New York Public Library Sponsored by the Office of Dean of the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (HCLAS).

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GALA BANQUET À LA RUSSE Menu Created by Darra Goldstein Professor of Russian Williams College Plaza Rooms Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center North Campus

Welcome

Stuart Rabinowitz President and Andrew M. Boas and Mark L. Claster Distinguished Professor of Law Hofstra University

Greetings

Sergei Trepelkov Senior Counselor Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations

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8:30 p.m.

CONCERT

THE OPERA COMPANY

A Russian Program in Honor of St. Petersburg Erika Rauer, soprano Daniel Gurvich, baritone Maxim Pakhomov, piano Amy Hamilton-Soto, violin Teresa Kubiak, cello

Commentary by Michael Spierman Artistic Director The Bronx Opera Company

Performing works by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Monroe Lecture Center Theater California Avenue, South Campus

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ftàâÜwtç? aÉäxÅuxÜ K? ECCF 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor South Campus

8-9 a.m.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Compliments of Kossar’s Bialys New York, NY

9 a.m.-8 p.m.

BOOK DISPLAY AT HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE Selected titles relevant to the conference Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center North Campus

9 a.m.-9 p.m.

HOFSTRA MUSEUM EXHIBITION Contemporary Russian Art From the Hofstra Museum Collection October 27-December 23, 2003 Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor South Campus

9-11 a.m.

PANEL IV: 20th CENTURY RUSSIA Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor South Campus Victor Allakhverdov Professor of Psychology St. Petersburg State University, Russia “St. Petersburg as a Paradox of World Culture” Katerina Clark Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Language and Literatures Yale University “The Impact of St. Petersburg on 20th Century Russian Literature” Commentator Alexander Mihailovic Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages Hofstra University

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS PANEL V-A: POST-SOVIET RUSSIA Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor South Campus Jeffrey Hahn Professor of Political Science Villanova University “St. Petersburg as a Model for Local Self-Government in Post-Soviet Russia” Thomas F. Remington Professor of Political Science Emory University “Petersburg, Power and Property” Commentator: Peter H. Juviler Professor Emeritus of Human Rights Studies Program Barnard College

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

PANEL V-B: THE ARTS, II Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor South Campus Nadieszda Kizenko Associate Professor of History SUNY at Albany “The ‘Russian Style’ Churches of St. Petersburg” Tatiana V. Senkevitch Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Visiting Scholar The Getty Research Institute Los Angeles, CA “The Dominion of Perspective: Nevsky Prospect in Literature and the Visual Arts” Commentator: Professor Johan Åhr Assistant Professor of History and Teaching Fellow New College, Hofstra University

1-2 p.m.

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LUNCH (on your own) See page 15 for dining facilities.

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS PANEL VI-A: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY IN POST-SOVIET ST. PETERSBURG Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor South Campus Elena A. Kosheleva Main Board of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg Region St. Petersburg, Russia “Economic Development in Post-Soviet Russia” Carlin Romano Literary Critic The Philadelphia Inquirer and Fulbright Professor of Philosophy St. Petersburg State University, Russia “Post-Soviet Philosophy in St. Petersburg” Commentator: Nicholas N. Kozlov Associate Professor of Economics Hofstra University

2-4 p.m.

PANEL VI-B: DAILY LIFE AND URBAN FOLKWAYS IN ST. PETERSBURG Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor South Campus Darra Goldstein Professor of Russian Williams College “Gastronomic Reforms Under Peter the Great” Alexander Mihailovic Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages Hofstra University “Thunder Rogues: Soviet and Imperial Glory in the Art and Rock Music of the St. Petersburg Mit’ki” Commentator: Tatiana Gordon Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Teaching Hofstra University

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ftàâÜwtç? aÉäxÅuxÜ K? ECCF Rochelle And Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor South Campus 4:15 p.m.

PERFORMANCE Selections from “Iolanta”

By Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Iolanta………………Nicole Nappi, soprano (Class of 2003) Vaudémont………….Joseph Laws, tenor (Class of 2004) Benjamin Malkevitch, piano (Class of 2006) Directed by Patricia Heuermann Director, Hofstra Opera Theater

4:45 p.m.

SPECIAL ADDRESS Mihail Chemiakin International Artist and Sculptor Dialogue Between Plato and Socrates (Installed at Hofstra University, 1999) “Post-Soviet Art in St. Petersburg” Commentator: Alexej Ugrinsky Editorial Consultant Hofstra University

5:30 p.m.

RECEPTION and EXHIBITION VIEWING Contemporary Russian Art From the Hofstra Museum Collection Remarks: George D. Jackson Professor Emeritus of History Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar Conference Director Hofstra University

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Mihail Chemiakin Dialogue Between Plato and Socrates (Installed at Hofstra University, 1999)

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Anatoly Zverev Young Girl, c. 1982 Watercolor and charcoal on paper 22 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.

Gift of Midwood Medical Services, P.C. HU92.48 From the Hofstra Museum Collection

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]ÉáxÑ{ ZA TáàÅtÇ W|áà|Çzâ|á{xw VÉÇyxÜxÇvx fv{ÉÄtÜá 1986 Marilyn French, Author Conference: The World of George Sand 1988 Andrea Bonanome (Italy), Medical Researcher Conference: Chocolate: Food of the Gods 1989 Edmund W. Gordon, Psychologist Conference: Minorities in Higher Education 1989 Nicole Pellegrin (France), Scholar Conference: The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact 1990 Edmond Morris, Biographer, and Sylvia J. Morris, Biographer Conference: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America 1990 Dore Ashton, Art Historian Conference: Van Gogh 100 1990 John Cage, Composer and Artist Conference: Bamboo and Oak: The Impact of East Asia on American Society and Culture 1991 Paul Badura-Skoda (Austria), Musician, and Eva Badura-Skoda (Austria), Musicologist Conference: Mozart: 200 Years of Research and Analysis 1991 Charles W. Smithson, Banker Conference: Innovative Financial Instruments and Development in Financial Services 1991 Lucine Amara, Opera Singer Conference: Opera and the “Golden West” 1991 John G. Cawelti, Scholar Conference: Detective Fiction and Film 1991 Marc Shell, Scholar Conference: Money: Lure, Lore and Liquidity 1992 Artie Kamiya, Scholar Conference: East Coast Regional Conference on “Games Children Play” 1993 Paul John Eakin, Scholar Conference: First Person Singular: Autobiography Past, Present and Future 1994 Tovah Feldshuh, Actress Conference: Women in Theatre: On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Sarah Bernhardt 1994 Martin Bauml Duberman, Scholar Conference: Art, Glitter and Glitz: The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity 1995 Kazuo Sayama (Japan), Writer and Baseball Historian Conference: Baseball and the “Sultan of Swat”: Commemorating the 100th Birthday of Babe Ruth 1995 Ngûgî wa Thiong’o, Novelist and Essayist Conference: Africa 2000 1995 Nicholas Johnson, Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Conference: Eleventh International Interdisciplinary Conference on General Semantics 1996 Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Scholar Conference: Inscription as Art in the World of Islam 1996 Peter A. Quinn, Author Conference: Irish Literatures: Old and New Worlds 1996 Rem Koolhas, Founder and Principal, Office for Metropolitan Architecture Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Conference: (In)Visible Cities: From the Postmodern Metropolis to the Cities of the Future 1996 Joyce Carol Oates, Author and Poet Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Princeton University Conference: George Sand: History, Politics and Society: From the First Empire to the Third Republic 1997 Herbert S. Parmet, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, City University of New York Conference: The Tenth Presidential Conference: George Bush: Leading in a New World

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1997 Edward Peters, Scholar Conference: Pope Innocent III and His World 1997 Mario Lavista (México), Composer Conference: The Hispanic Connection: Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World 1998 Oren Lyons (Iroquois), Scholar Conference: Native American Experience: Long Island, New York and Beyond 1998 Will Friedwald, Writer and Frank Sinatra Historian Conference: Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend 1999 Jon C. Teaford, Scholar Conference: Nassau County: From Rural Hinterland to Suburban Metropolis 1999 Michele Luzzati (Italy), Scholar Conference: The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy 1999 David B. Ruderman, Scholar Conference: The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy 1999 Blanche Wiesen Cook, Historian Conference: The Vision of Eleanor Roosevelt: World Citizen Ahead of Her Time 1999 Donald Spoto, Author Conference: Alfred Hitchcock: In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Alfred Hitchcock 1999 Michael A. Morrison, Scholar Conference: Millennial Shakespeare: Performance/Text/Scholarship 2000 Peter Riddell, Associate Editor, The Times (London) Conference: The Thatcher Years: The Rebirth of Liberty?

2000 Walter Isaacson, Managing Editor, Time Symposium: The Leadership Difference: Rating the Presidents 2000 Jackson R. Bryer, Scholar Conference: A Robert Anderson Retrospective: Theater and Film 2000 Carlisle Floyd, Composer, Susannah Conference: Contemporary Opera at the Millennium 2001 Kenneth T. Jackson, Scholar Conference: Redefining Suburban Studies 2001 Bill Michaelis, Scholar Conference: The Child’s Right to Play: A Global Approach 2001 E.L. Doctorow, Author Conference: Moby-Dick 2001 2001 Richard A. Falk, Scholar Conference: 2001: A Peace Odyssey 2001 George Wein, Producer Symposium: Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong: A Celebration of Jazz 2002 John Seelye, Scholar Conference: John Steinbeck’s Americas 2002 Gwen Kirkpatrick, Scholar Symposium: Spanish and Spanish-American Poetry: Transition 2000 and Beyond 2002 Howard Zinn, Scholar Symposium: Representing Sacco and Vanzetti 2002 Ian Thomson, Scholar Conference: “If This Is a Man”: The Life and Legacy of Primo Levi 2002 Gary Giddins, Biographer Conference: Bing! Crosby and American Culture 2003 Robert Kimball, Author and Historian of Musical Theatre Conference: The Broadway Musical: 1920-2020 2003 Carl R. Gunther, Historian and Archivist Conference: From Autogiro to Gyroplane: The Past, Present and Future of an Aviation Industry 2003 George D. Jackson, Historian Conference: St. Petersburg 300th Anniversary: The City as a Cradle of Modern Russia

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HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER The Hofstra Cultural Center was founded in 1976 by the late Joseph G. Astman, Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University, and has evolved into a dynamic instrument for fostering scholarly exchange and intellectual debate. In its 27-year history as an integral part of Hofstra University, it has sponsored more than 100 international conferences that have brought together thousands of scholars from throughout the United States and all over the world. The Cultural Center has solidified its role as a forum for the interdisciplinary exploration of a wide range of topics. Its conferences range from highly specialized inquiries (e.g., The Trotsky-Stalin Conflict in the 1920s and Inscription as Art in the World of Islam) to subjects of general cultural interest (Chocolate: Food of the Gods; Baseball and the “Sultan of Swat:” Commemorating the 100th Birthday of Babe Ruth; and Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend), from matters of local and regional concern (Long Island Studies Conferences Robert Moses and Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators) to issues of international and global significance (New Directions in Worker/Management Relations: US/USSR; The United Nations at Fifty; and Africa 2000).

The Hofstra Cultural Center operates primarily through the medium of the international scholarly conference, traditionally enriched by exhibitions, performances and various supplemental events, but it also sponsors other cultural activities. Its conference activities fall under three headings: conferences dedicated to monographic study of world historical figures (Einstein, James Joyce, Trotsky, Stalin, Goethe, George Sand, Van Gogh, C. G. Jung, Tchaikovsky and Sarah Bernhardt); conferences dedicated to historical, cultural, political or artistic problematics (Heritage: An Appraisal of the Harlem Renaissance; Bamboo and Oak: The Impact of East Asia on American Society and Culture; and Avant-Garde Art and Literature); and a series of conferences dedicated to the presidents of the United States. The “presidential series,” inaugurated in 1982, has so far examined the presidencies of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush. Employing a pioneering format, these conferences have attempted to examine the presidencies in a critical way by inviting former members of the administrations and White House staffs to enter into discussion with political scientists, historians and economists.

“Since the Hofstra Cultural Center presented its first scholarly conference more than a quarter of a century ago, the world’s most distinguished scholars, scientists, government leaders, artists, musicians, authors, journalists and newsmakers have shared their expertise and talents with our students, faculty and guests. A university should provide a forum to share ideas and increase knowledge. With each new event presented by the Cultural Center our universe of ideas and knowledge grows,” said Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz.

Pellegrino D’Acierno Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages Hofstra University

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George Sand Centennial Heinrich von Kleist Bicentennial The Chinese Woman George Sand: Her Life, Her Works, Her Influence William Cullen Bryant and His America The Trotsky-Stalin Conflict in the 1920s Albert Einstein Centennial Renaissance Venice Symposium Sean O’Casey Walt Whitman Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Feodor Dostoevski Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Man, the Myth, the Era Johann Wolfgang von Goethe James Joyce Twentieth-Century Women Writers Harry S. Truman: The Man From Independence John Maynard Keynes Romanticism in the Old and the New World: Washington Irving, Stendahl and Zhukovskii Espectador Universal: José Ortega y Gasset Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier, President, Statesman Victorian Studies Symposium on Eighteenth-Century Venice George Orwell Friedrich von Schiller John F. Kennedy: The Promise Revisited Higher Education: Today and Tomorrow Heritage: A Reappraisal of the Harlem Renaissance New York State History Conference Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts Johann Sebastian Bach Law School Conference: Sixteen Years of the Burger Court, 1969-1985 Avant-Garde Art and Literature Television 1985-1986: Issues for the Industry and the Audience Artificial Intelligence Evolution of Business Education Lyndon B. Johnson: A Texan in Washington Long Island Studies Attitudes Toward Persons With Disabilities The World of George Sand Miguel de Unamuno/Ramón Valle-Inclán/Federico García-Lorca C. G. Jung and the Humanities The Bicentennial of the United States Constitution: A Celebration Suburbia Re-Examined Shellfishing and Coastal Resource Management: A Global Perspective American Immigration and Ethnicity Richard Nixon: A Retrospective on His Presidency, Vols. I*, II*, III* Dream and Reality: The Modern Black Struggle for Freedom and Equality Multinational Culture: Social Impacts of a Global Economy Group Defamation and Freedom of Speech: The Relationship Between Language and Violence The Legacy of John von Neumann Long Island Studies Conference: Robert Moses Business Finance in Less-Developed Capital Markets Byron and His Contemporaries Chocolate: Food of the Gods Minorities in Higher Education Gerald R. Ford: Restoring the Presidency, Vols. I*, II* East Coast Regional Meeting of the Society of Protozoologists

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The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America Vincent Van Gogh The Environment: Global Problems-Local Solutions Bamboo and Oak: The Impact of East Asia on American Society and Culture Jimmy Carter: Keeping Faith, Vols. I*, II* Mozart: 200 Years of Research and Analysis Innovative Financial Instruments and Developments in Financial Services Opera in the “Golden West” Detective Fiction and Film in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Agatha Christie, Vols. I*, II* Money: Lure, Lore, and Liquidity The United States and Japan in World War II New Directions in Worker/Management Relations: US/USSR The Allocation of Power Between Central and Local Governments: The American and Soviet Perspectives Games Children Play F. Scott Fitzgerald The Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender The Next Long Island Hurricane!!! Are We Ready for the “Big One”?

Contested Terrain: Power, Politics, and Participation in Suburbia Ronald Reagan-Ninth Presidential Conference, Vols. I*, II*, III* Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries Edvard Grieg: Exploration of Scandinavian Cultures First-Person Singular: Autobiography Women in Theatre: On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) Art, Glitter, and Glitz: The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity, Vol. I* United Nations at Fifty Baseball and the “Sultan of Swat”: Commemorating the 100th Birthday of Babe Ruth Africa 2000 Eleventh International Conference on General Semantics Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators Inscription as Art in the World of Islam Irish Literatures: Old and New Worlds History, Society, and Politics: George Sand from the First Empire to the Third Republic George Bush: The 41st President of the United States, Vols. I,* II* The World of Pope Innocent III The Hispanic Connection: Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World Legal Ethics: Access to Justice The Native American Experience: Long Island, New York and Beyond Financial Services in the Evolving Global Marketplace: The Next Millennium Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend Nassau County Centennial: From Rural Hinterland to Suburban Metropolis The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy The Eighth Eastcoast Regional Meeting of Protozoologists Tenth Anniversary Conference of Protozoology The Vision of Eleanor Roosevelt: World Citizen Ahead of Her Time Millennial Shakespeare: Performance/Text/Scholarship The Thatcher Years: The Rebirth of Liberty?

Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings and His World The Leadership Difference: Rating the Presidents A Robert Anderson Retrospective: Theater and Film Contemporary Opera at the Millennium Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for a New Paradigm The Child’s Right to Play: A Global Approach Moby-Dick 2001 2001: A Peace Odyssey: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong: A Celebration of Jazz John Steinbeck’s Americas The Classical Music of George Gershwin

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Spanish and Spanish-American Poetry: Transition 2000 and Beyond Cradle of Aviation Symposium Representing Sacco and Vanzetti “If This Is a Man”: The Life and Legacy of Primo Levi Bing! Crosby and American Culture The Broadway Musical – 1920-2020 From Autogiro to Gyroplane: The Past, Present and Future of an Aviation Industry Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: 10 Years Later A Pen of Light: The Films of Jean Cocteau Mario Vargas Llosa Symposium St. Petersburg, Russia: 300th Anniversary Applied Organizational Psychology Identity and Expression in the African Diaspora Don Quixote Conference The Africa Network Surburban Studies Symposium Suburban Studies Conference F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference William J. Clinton Presidential Conference

April 2002 May 2002 October 2002 October 2002 November 2002 March 2003 April 2003 September 2003 October 1-4, 2003 November 3, 2003 November 7-8, 2003 March 18-20, 2004 October 7-9, 2004 November 4-6, 2004 April 16-18, 2004 April 22, 2004 March 18-19, 2005 April 14-17, 2005 November 10-12, 2005

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For further information and “Calls for Papers”: Hofstra Cultural Center 200 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549-2000 Tel: (516) 463-5669/5670 Fax: (516) 463-4793 E-mail: HOFCULCTR@HOFSTRA.EDU www.hofstra.edu/culture

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Monroe Lecture Center Dining Facilities on the Hofstra University Campus There are several dining facilities on the campus, some of which are listed below. Only one dining facility, the Hofstra University Club, requires reservations. You may make reservations for lunch/dinner by calling (516) 463-6648.

NORTH CAMPUS: Main Café 7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

10 a.m.-7 p.m. (Saturday) Sbarro’s Burlaps

SOUTH CAMPUS: Café Bistro at Bits ’n Bytes

7:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Closed on Saturday

11 a.m.-1 a.m.

Noon-1 a.m. (Saturday)

Hofstra Deli

7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. (Saturday)

8 a.m.-11 p.m.

8 a.m.-3 p.m. (Saturday)

Café on the Quad

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Closed on Saturday

University Club (Call for reservations.)

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HOFSTRA COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES Bernard J. Firestone, Dean Barbara J. Bohannon, Associate Dean Steven R. Constenoble, Associate Dean Barry N. Nass, Associate Dean Helene Morris, Administrative Assistant HISTORY DEPARTMENT Louis J. Kern, Chair Judith D’Angio, Senior Executive Secretary HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE Paul Sirianni, General Manager Roberta A. Mirro, Assistant General Manager Brendan O’Keefe, Operations Manager OFFICE OF CAMPUS LIFE Holly J. Seirup, Vice President Denise A. Kouril, Director of Campus Life Operations Michael D. Ogazon, Assistant Director DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY Edward N. Bracht, Director EVENT MANAGEMENT Christopher J. Adams, Director Martin Gonzalez, Associate Director Mary Corva, Senior Assistant to Director Tawn E. Seabrook, Senior Executive Secretary Shawn Saylor, Manager, Audio Visual Services Audio Visual Staff DINING SERVICES Joe Rudolph, District Manager John DiGregorio, Director José Rodriguez, Catering Manager HOFSTRA MUSEUM David C. Christman, Director Camille Marryat, Senior Assistant to the Director Eleanor Rait, Curator of Collections Karen T. Albert, Exhibitions Designer/Preparator Heather Johnson, Information Coordinator JOAN AND DONALD E. AXINN LIBRARY Daniel R. Rubey, Dean of Library and Information Services Carol A. Sasso, Manager, Dean’s Office Lydia Di Domenico, Senior Library Assistant

PHYSICAL PLANT DEPARTMENT Richard V. Guardino, Jr.,Vice President for Business Development and Executive Dean of the Center for Suburban Studies Richard J. Drury, Director Michael J. King, Associate Director Kenneth R. Tyler, Associate Director Frederick B. Soviero, Director of Grounds OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Melissa A. Connolly, Assistant Vice President Ginny S. Greenberg, Director Suzanne M. Shareef, Associate Director Mary Schmitt, Director of Advertising Ann M. Cornelius, Director of Planning and Budget Stacey Franzke, Electronic Information Administrator Jimena Coté, Coordinator PUBLICATIONS AND PRINTING OFFICE Vicki L. Dwyer, Director Kelvin Fonville, Creative Director of Publications Mary Droppa, Graphic Artist Elvia L. Reynolds, Graphic Artist Heather A. Rysanek, Graphic Artist Dana Siljander, Graphic Artist Printing Office Staff MAIL SERVICES Luigi Bruno, Manager Mail Services Staff

We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of: Austin Travel Garden City, NY Horizon Transportation of New York, Inc. West Hempstead, NY Kossar’s Bialys New York, NY Long Island Marriott Hotel and Conference Center Uniondale, NY Nassau Library Systems Uniondale, NY New York Public Library New York, NY Red Roof Inn Westbury, NY Suffolk Cooperative Library System Bellport, NY Wingate Inn Garden City, NY

UNIVERSITY EDITING OFFICE Kimberly A. Orlic, University Editor Linda A. Merklin, Supervisor Special Secretarial Services Secretarial Services Staff

Hofstra University continues its commitment to extending equal opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, or physical or mental disability in the conduct and operation of its educational programs and activities, including admission and employment. This statement of nondiscrimination is in compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and other federal, state and local laws. The Director of Environmental Safety in the Plant Department (516) 463-6622 is the individual designated by the University to coordinate its efforts to comply with Section 504. The Equal Rights and Opportunity Officer is the University’s official responsible for coordinating its adherence to Title IX and other equal opportunity regulations and laws. Questions or concerns regarding Title IX or other aspects of this policy (other than Section 504) should be directed to the Equal Rights and Opportunity Officer (516) 463-6976.

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TRUSTEES OF HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY

HOFSTRA AT A GLANCE

As of July 2003

2003-2004

OFFICERS Salvatore F. Sodano,* Chair Anthony J. Bonomo, Vice Chair Janis M. Meyer,* Vice Chair Martha S. Pope, Secretary Stuart Rabinowitz, President

LOCATION: Nassau County, Long Island, 25 miles east of New York City. Telephone: (516) 463-6600.

MEMBERS Alan J. Bernon* Mark Broxmeyer* Bernadette Castro (on leave) John J. Conefry, Jr. Robert F. Dall* Maurice A. Deane* Nelson DeMille* Helene Fortunoff Leo A. Guthart Peter S. Kalikow* Abby Kenigsberg Arthur J. Kremer Charles Kushner* Karen L. Lutz David S. Mack* James F. McCann John D. Miller* Lewis S. Ranieri Edwin C. Reed Terence E. Smolev* Frank G. Zarb*

FOUNDING DATE: 1935

DELEGATES Daniel E. Seabold, Speaker of the Faculty Carole T. Ferrand, Chair, University Senate Executive Committee Stuart L. Bass,* Chair, University Senate Planning and Budget Committee John Whitcomb, President, Student Government Association (as of September 2003) Craig Thomas, Vice President, Student Government Association (as of September 2003) Thomas Santucci,* President, Alumni Organization Joseph D. Monticciolo, Chair, Hofstra Advisory Board James H. Marshall,* President Emeritus James M. Shuart,* President Emeritus Donald E. Axinn,* Trustee Emeritus Robert E. Brockway,* Trustee Emeritus Emil V. Cianciulli, Esq.,* Trustee Emeritus George G. Dempster,* Chair Emeritus Bernard Fixler,* Trustee Emeritus Milton M. Gardner, M.D., Trustee Emeritus Walter B. Kissinger, Trustee Emeritus Gerald Light, Trustee Emeritus Ann M. Mallouk,* Trustee Emeritus Thomas H. O’Brien, Trustee Emeritus Donald A. Petrie,* Trustee Emeritus Arnold A. Saltzman, Trustee Emeritus Norman R. Tengstrom,* Trustee Emeritus * Hofstra Alumni

CHARACTER: A private, nonsectarian, coeducational university.

PRESIDENT: Stuart Rabinowitz THE SCHOOLS OF HOFSTRA: Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Frank G. Zarb School of Business, School of Communication, School of Education and Allied Human Services, New College of Hofstra (innovative undergraduate college), School of Law, School for University Studies, Honors College, Saturday College, and University College for Continuing Education.

FACULTY: There are 1,291 faculty members, of whom 507 are full-time. Ninety-one percent of full-time faculty hold the highest degree in their fields.

STUDENT BODY: Full-time undergraduate enrollment of 8,314. Total University enrollment, including part-time undergraduate, graduate and School of Law, is approximately 13,400. Male-female ratio is 43 to 57.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS: Approximately 130 undergraduate programs of study.

GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS: Approximately 140 graduate programs of study, including Ph.D., Ed.D., Psy.D. and J.D. programs.

THE HOFSTRA CAMPUS: With 111 buildings and 240 acres, Hofstra is an accredited member of the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta.

HOFSTRA LIBRARIES: The Hofstra Libraries are fully computerized and contain 1.6 million volumes and volume equivalents available for student use.

ACCESSIBILITY: Hofstra is 100 percent program accessible to persons with disabilities.

SUMMER SESSIONS: Hofstra offers three summer sessions between May and August.

HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK 11549