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Co-organizers: Lidia Tripiccione and Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University Keynote Speaker: Kevin M.F. Platt, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania In his most famous article, Boris Eikhenbaum showed how Gogol’s Overcoat was made: a literary text was presented as a product of meticulous fabrication. In his later work, Eikhenbaum similarly explored the constructed nature of the environment (byt) in which literature is produced. Focusing on social and artistic milieus, Eikhenbaum asked: How are poets and literary figures “made?” In responding to this question, we seek to refine, recast, and expand the Formalist mode of inquiry. Broadly speaking, we ask: What are the aesthetic, narrative, social and political techniques and technologies that generate literary personalities and discourses on literature in imperial and Soviet Russia and in Eastern Europe? How does the byt of literature emerge, settle, and perpetuate itself? What are the networks of everyday life that shaped literary and academic life in Russia and the Soviet Union as well as the study of this region’s literary culture? We invite papers from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are interested in exploring the creation of discourse, personality, and celebrity in transit: e.g., the cultivated and mediated persona of the writer among foreign readerships; the emigration of theorists and their ideas from “home” to “abroad;” the dynamics and mechanics of translation (interlingual, intralingual, etc.), and the production of scholarly discourses within institutions or informal kruzhki.