{"id":27716,"date":"2021-03-09T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbldm.uwr.edu.pl\/2021\/03\/09\/wyklad-prof-mariny-baliny-10-03-2021\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T13:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T11:08:27","slug":"wyklad-prof-mariny-baliny-10-03-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbldm.uwr.edu.pl\/en\/2021\/03\/09\/wyklad-prof-mariny-baliny-10-03-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture by Professor Marina Balina \u2013 10 March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lecture by Professor Marina Balina \u2013 10 March 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n
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The Research Centre for Children\u2019s and Youth Literature at the University of Wroc\u0142aw invites you to the first lecture in the series \u201cInternational Voices in Children\u2019s Literature Studies\u201d. This time our guest will be Professor Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University). She will give a lecture entitled \u201cWriting Ancient History as \u201cOppositional Enlightenment\u201d: On Historical Novels in Soviet Children\u2019s Literature of the 1960s-1970s\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Marina Balina<\/strong> (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA) works on historical and theoretical aspects of twentieth-century Russian children\u2019s literature. She is the author of numerous articles and editor of eleven monographs on children\u2019s and young adult literature, including Hans Christian Andersen and Russia (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2020). She is currently preparing a volume with Serguei Oushakin entitled \u2018The Pedagogy of Images: Teaching Communism to Children\u2019, which will be published by University of Toronto Press in spring 2021. Prof. Balina is a member of the Scientific Council of the Research Centre for Children\u2019s and Young People\u2019s Literature at the University of Wroc\u0142aw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture entitled \u201cWriting Ancient History as \u201cOppositional Enlightenment\u201d: On Historical Novels in Soviet Children\u2019s Literature of the 1960s -1970s\u201d<\/strong> is devoted to the function of ancient history as \u201coppositional enlightenment\u201d in historical novels in Soviet children\u2019s literature of the 1960s and 1970s. In her talk, Prof. Balina will focus on the emergence and transformation of the historical canon in Russian children\u2019s literature. While historical prose for children written in the Soviet period consistently maintained its obligatory ideological agenda, its educational role remained equally important, which either eliminated the obligatory ideological theme or reduced it to a minimum. Compared to authors of adult literature, children\u2019s writers found it easier to turn to events in ancient history; as a result, this prose became a desirable arena for professional historians, who began to use it as a creative outlet that freed them from the constraints of politicized history (Milii Ezerskii, Alexander Nemerovskii, Samuil Lur\u2019e, Melitsa Mat\u2019e). Often written as paratexts, with plenty of footnotes and references, these stories provided an antidote that satisfied the mutual longing for historical knowledge that both writers and their readers needed in their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture (in English) will start on 10 March 2021 at 18.00 on the MS Teams platform. If you are interested in attending the lecture, please email us by 8 March at mateusz.swietlicki@uwr.edu.pl.<\/p>\n\n\n

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