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Nabokov 101
International Summer School for Nabokov Students
August 4-12, 2003
GENERAL INFORMATION
On August 4-12, 2003, the Nabokov Museum in St.Petersburg will hold its fourth International Summer School for Nabokov students. It will be conducted at the Nabokov Museum which is located at 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Street in St.Petersburg, the place Vladimir Nabokov described as "the only house in the world". Our teachers this year will be Prof. Julian Connolly and Prof. Alexander Dolinin.
Julian W. Connolly is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, where he specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature. He is the author of Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and Other (1992), the editor of Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives (1999) and Invitation to a Beheading: A Critical Companion (1997), and he has published over thirty articles on various aspects of Nabokov's work. He is also the author of The Intimate Stranger: Meetings with the Devil in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (2001) and Ivan Bunin (1982).
Alexander Dolinin holds a PhD from Leningrad State University (1977) and is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specializes in Nabokov, Pushkin, and poetics of 19th and 20th century Russian literature. He has written extensively on Nabokov in English and Russian and prepared annotated editions for Symposium collection of Nabokov's Russian writings.
Alexander Dolinin's publications on Zembla
List of Alexander Dolinin's publications on the website of University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alexander Dolinin's publications in Zvezda magazine (in Russian)
The purpose of the Nabokov Summer School is to provide students from all over the world with the opportunity to study various aspects Vladimir Nabokov's art with internationally known Nabokov scholars. The atmosphere of the Nabokov House, which appears in many of Nabokov novels and is lovingly described in "Speak, Memory", turns these scholarly sessions into an unforgettable personal experience for both students and teachers.
LANGUAGE
English is the main language of the program. All classes and guided tours will be conducted in English.
TUITION Students are required to pay their own tuition, travel costs, and living expenses (food and lodging). The Nabokov 101 tuition cost is $400, which will cover participation in seminars, coffee-breaks, handouts, use of museum computers and Internet access at the Nabokov Museum, use of museum library.
GRADES AND CERTIFICATES
After completing the program, the students will receive a Nabokov 101 Certificate and, if required, a personal letter of recommendation from the professor.
TIME AND CURRICULUM
Seminars will begin on August 4 (Tuesday) and continue through August 12 (Wednesday). There will be 8 days of seminars in all, with two 1,5 hour seminars every day. In addition, guided tours of Nabokov sites and other literary points of interest in St.Petersburg, trips to museums and galleries, and other sightseeing activities will be offered every day. On Saturday, August 8, students and teachers will have a chance to go on a day-long guided tour to the Nabokov Estates in the Gatchina Region near St.Petersburg.
The curriculum will include lectures and seminars on various Nabokov subjects, with a strong emphasis on applying modern methods of literary criticism to the study of Nabokov's work. Close reading of Nabokov's novels and short stories, commented upon by the teacher and students together, will be another important element of the curriculum.
SCHEDULE
9:30-10:00 Students gather at the Nabokov Museum.
10:00-11:30 Prof. Connolly's seminar.
11:30-12:00 Coffee-break
12:00-13:30 Prof. Dolinin's seminar.
13:30-14:30 Lunch(optional)
14:30-18:00 Guided tour (optional). Work at the library, homework, individual research.
PROGRAM COSTS
Tuition $ 400
Visa invitation processing $35
Accommodation in St.Petersburg *
Private apartment or pension $15-60 a day
Hotel $60-100 a day
Housing registration (applicable for private
apartments and small hotels) $20
Lunches (optional) $3-8 a day
Guided tours (optional) $5-30 per tour
*Accomodation will be arranged by the Museum at the student's request.
APPLICATION AND PAYMENT
Students can apply by filling in the application form.
The payment can be made in cash or in traveler's checks on student's arrival in St.Petersburg. No advance payment is required but the students who cancel their participation after the visa invitation has been issued for them will have to reimburse the museum for its cost ($35).
RUSSIAN VISA
There are two basic ways to obtain a Russian visa . You may use visa support provided by the Nabokov museum or you can use the services of a travel agency in your home country. From our experience the latter way is usually costlier.
Getting a Russian visa through the Nabokov museum is a two-step process involving two separate documents:
1. visa invitation - an A4 paper that will be faxed to you from St.Petersburg
2. visa proper - a slip of paper issued by the Russian consulate in your home country and glued onto a page in your passport.
To set the process into motion please check out the location of the Russian embassy or consulates in your home country (this can be easily done through the Internet) and decide for yourself in which of them you are going to apply for the visa.
Then please e-mail us the basic personal information needed for the visa invitation:
- your first, middle and last name
- your birthdate
- your current address and telephone
- the location (the name of the city only) of the Russian embassy or consulate in your home country where you'll be applying for the visa
- the cities in Russia that you plan to visit
- the day you enter Russia and the day you leave it (make it a month* to allow time for change of flight schedule, etc.)
- the telephone number to which we can fax your visa invitation to you.
The tourist visa invitation will be issued by our partner travel firm which is registered in all Russian embassies and consulates abroad. It will be faxed to the number you indicated a day or two after you send in the info.
Once you have the faxed invitation you should take it or mail it to the Russian embassy or consulate, fill in the forms, pay the consulate fee and receive your Russian visa. The exact procedure and the fee can differ slightly from country to country. As for the length of the procedure it's usually within two weeks.
* the tourist visa can only be issued for a month's stay in Russia. Those who plan to stay longer will need a different type of visa that takes longer to be processed and will cost more. Please address the program coordinator individually for more information.
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Nabokov 101
International Summer School for Nabokov Students
August 4-12, 2003
GENERAL INFORMATION
On August 4-12, 2003, the Nabokov Museum in St.Petersburg will hold its fourth International Summer School for Nabokov students. It will be conducted at the Nabokov Museum which is located at 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Street in St.Petersburg, the place Vladimir Nabokov described as "the only house in the world". Our teachers this year will be Prof. Julian Connolly and Prof. Alexander Dolinin.
Julian W. Connolly is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, where he specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature. He is the author of Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and Other (1992), the editor of Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives (1999) and Invitation to a Beheading: A Critical Companion (1997), and he has published over thirty articles on various aspects of Nabokov's work. He is also the author of The Intimate Stranger: Meetings with the Devil in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (2001) and Ivan Bunin (1982).
Alexander Dolinin holds a PhD from Leningrad State University (1977) and is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specializes in Nabokov, Pushkin, and poetics of 19th and 20th century Russian literature. He has written extensively on Nabokov in English and Russian and prepared annotated editions for Symposium collection of Nabokov's Russian writings.
Alexander Dolinin's publications on Zembla
List of Alexander Dolinin's publications on the website of University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alexander Dolinin's publications in Zvezda magazine (in Russian)
The purpose of the Nabokov Summer School is to provide students from all over the world with the opportunity to study various aspects Vladimir Nabokov's art with internationally known Nabokov scholars. The atmosphere of the Nabokov House, which appears in many of Nabokov novels and is lovingly described in "Speak, Memory", turns these scholarly sessions into an unforgettable personal experience for both students and teachers.
LANGUAGE
English is the main language of the program. All classes and guided tours will be conducted in English.
TUITION Students are required to pay their own tuition, travel costs, and living expenses (food and lodging). The Nabokov 101 tuition cost is $400, which will cover participation in seminars, coffee-breaks, handouts, use of museum computers and Internet access at the Nabokov Museum, use of museum library.
GRADES AND CERTIFICATES
After completing the program, the students will receive a Nabokov 101 Certificate and, if required, a personal letter of recommendation from the professor.
TIME AND CURRICULUM
Seminars will begin on August 4 (Tuesday) and continue through August 12 (Wednesday). There will be 8 days of seminars in all, with two 1,5 hour seminars every day. In addition, guided tours of Nabokov sites and other literary points of interest in St.Petersburg, trips to museums and galleries, and other sightseeing activities will be offered every day. On Saturday, August 8, students and teachers will have a chance to go on a day-long guided tour to the Nabokov Estates in the Gatchina Region near St.Petersburg.
The curriculum will include lectures and seminars on various Nabokov subjects, with a strong emphasis on applying modern methods of literary criticism to the study of Nabokov's work. Close reading of Nabokov's novels and short stories, commented upon by the teacher and students together, will be another important element of the curriculum.
SCHEDULE
9:30-10:00 Students gather at the Nabokov Museum.
10:00-11:30 Prof. Connolly's seminar.
11:30-12:00 Coffee-break
12:00-13:30 Prof. Dolinin's seminar.
13:30-14:30 Lunch(optional)
14:30-18:00 Guided tour (optional). Work at the library, homework, individual research.
PROGRAM COSTS
Tuition $ 400
Visa invitation processing $35
Accommodation in St.Petersburg *
Private apartment or pension $15-60 a day
Hotel $60-100 a day
Housing registration (applicable for private
apartments and small hotels) $20
Lunches (optional) $3-8 a day
Guided tours (optional) $5-30 per tour
*Accomodation will be arranged by the Museum at the student's request.
APPLICATION AND PAYMENT
Students can apply by filling in the application form.
The payment can be made in cash or in traveler's checks on student's arrival in St.Petersburg. No advance payment is required but the students who cancel their participation after the visa invitation has been issued for them will have to reimburse the museum for its cost ($35).
RUSSIAN VISA
There are two basic ways to obtain a Russian visa . You may use visa support provided by the Nabokov museum or you can use the services of a travel agency in your home country. From our experience the latter way is usually costlier.
Getting a Russian visa through the Nabokov museum is a two-step process involving two separate documents:
1. visa invitation - an A4 paper that will be faxed to you from St.Petersburg
2. visa proper - a slip of paper issued by the Russian consulate in your home country and glued onto a page in your passport.
To set the process into motion please check out the location of the Russian embassy or consulates in your home country (this can be easily done through the Internet) and decide for yourself in which of them you are going to apply for the visa.
Then please e-mail us the basic personal information needed for the visa invitation:
- your first, middle and last name
- your birthdate
- your current address and telephone
- the location (the name of the city only) of the Russian embassy or consulate in your home country where you'll be applying for the visa
- the cities in Russia that you plan to visit
- the day you enter Russia and the day you leave it (make it a month* to allow time for change of flight schedule, etc.)
- the telephone number to which we can fax your visa invitation to you.
The tourist visa invitation will be issued by our partner travel firm which is registered in all Russian embassies and consulates abroad. It will be faxed to the number you indicated a day or two after you send in the info.
Once you have the faxed invitation you should take it or mail it to the Russian embassy or consulate, fill in the forms, pay the consulate fee and receive your Russian visa. The exact procedure and the fee can differ slightly from country to country. As for the length of the procedure it's usually within two weeks.
* the tourist visa can only be issued for a month's stay in Russia. Those who plan to stay longer will need a different type of visa that takes longer to be processed and will cost more. Please address the program coordinator individually for more information.
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