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EDITOR's NOTE. Below is the program for Jane Grayson's just completed
Nabokov Centennial Conference at Cambridge. Abstracts of each paper may be
found at (http://www.ssees.ac.uk/nabokov.html)
The refereed proceedings will be published next year.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
CAMBRIDGE, 6-10 JULY 1999
NABOKOV AT THE CROSSROADS - FULL PROGRAMME
TUESDAY 6 JULY
11.30 REGISTRATION, Alcock Room, Jesus College
13.00 Lunch, Main Hall
14.15 - 16.00 CONFERENCE, Upper Hall, Jesus College
a.. Opening words, Don Barton Johnson, University of California at
Santa Barbara
b.. Galya Diment, University of Washington, "Cambridge, Brooke and
Goal Keeping: Young Nabokov in England"
c.. Charles Nicol, Indiana State University, "The Duel at Cambridge:
"Glory" as a Work of Anglo-Russian Literature"
d.. Grigorii Utgof, University of Tallinn, ""Podvig" (Glory) and "The
Real Life of Sebastian Knight": a Comparative Reading"
16:00 - 16.15 Tea
16:15 - 17:30
a.. Don Barton Johnson, University of California at Santa Barbara,
"Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's "Otherworld""
b.. Catriona Kelly, New College, Oxford, ""Special privacy is now to
me absolutely necessary": Nabokov, snobizm, and the representation of the
self" 18:00 Drinks Reception
Michael Branch (Director, SSEES, University of London)
20:15 Prioress's Room, Jesus College
Informal videofilm showing:
Kliuchi Nabokova (1997)
Commentary (in Russian): Evgenii Belodubrovskii (St Petersburg)
WEDNESDAY 7 JULY
9.15 - 11.00
a.. Maria Malikova, St Petersburg, "Nabokov and Pushkin. Marginalia.
Further Thoughts on the Theme of "Nabokov's Pushkin""
b.. Dale Peterson, Amherst College, "White (K)nights: Dostoevskian
Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories"
c.. Natalia Pervukhina, University of Tennessee, "Chekhov and Nabokov
in Polemic with their Time"
d.. Galina Rylkova, The Ohio State University, ""Beyond the Limits of
a Vulgar Fate": On Kuzminian Subtext in Nabokov's "The Eye" and "Pale
Fire""
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.45
a.. Vladimir Alexandrov, Yale University, "Nabokov and Tolstoy: Notes
on Allusions and Parallels"
b.. Michael Meylakh, University of the Antilles and Guyana,
"(Meta)poesis and Intertextuality: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's "Sem´
stikhotvorenii" (Seven Poems)"
c.. Julian Connolly, University of Virginia, "The Flight of Daedalus
and Icarus in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov"
13.00 Lunch
14.15 - 16.00
a.. Leona Toker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Nabokov and Bergson
on Duration and Reflexivity: "Speak, Memory" and "The Creative Mind""
b.. Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College, ""Splendid Insincerity" as
"Utmost Truthfulness": Nabokov and the Claims of the Real"
c.. Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee, "Nabokov, Mach, and
Monism at the End of the Century"
16.00 - 16.15 Tea
16.15 - 18.00
a.. Olga Skonechnaia, Gorky Institute of World Literature (IMLI),
Moscow "The Wandering Jew as Metaphor of Memory in Nabokov's Fiction of
the 1920s and 1930s"
b.. Gene Barabtarlo, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Grinding
Personal Matter (on the Movement of Nabokov's Themes)"
c.. Boris Averin, St Petersburg, "The Poetics of Memory in Nabokov's Prose"
20.15
a.. "DEAR BUNNY, DEAR VOLODYA". Dramatic dialogue adapted from the
letters of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov by Terry Quinn (performed by
Terry Quinn and Dmitri Nabokov)
Location: The Peterhouse Theatre (Auditorium)
Wine will be served beforehand.
THURSDAY 8 JULY
9.15 - 11.00
a.. Charles Lock, University of Copenhagen, "Tropes of Transparency"
b.. Rachel Trousdale, Yale University, ""Books that Others Write":
Proust, Nabokov, and James Merrill"
c.. Michael Wood, Princeton University, "Time and Again: Proust after
Nabokov"
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.45
a.. Ellen Pifer, University of Delaware, ""Did She have a Precursor?":
Lolita and Wharton's "The Children""
b.. Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University, "Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade"
c.. Brian Boyd, University of Auckland, ""Then ... Again": Shades and
Reflections of Eliot in "Pale Fire""
13.00 Lunch
14.15 - 16.00
a.. Neil Cornwell, Bristol University, "Governesses, Paintings and
"Publishing Scoundrels": Nabokov and Henry James"
b.. Lara Delage-Toriel, Newnham College, Cambridge, "Fussy Aphrodite
or the Sexual Crux in Nabokov's Last Novels"
c.. John Burt Foster, George Mason University, "Eccentric Modernism:
Nabokov and Yeats"
16.00 - 16.15 Tea
16.15 - 18.00
a.. Jenefer Coates, Middlesex University, "Nabokov's Editors"
b.. Paul Benedict Grant, Wolfson College, Cambridge, ""The Poet Kept
Smiling": Gallows Humour or Nabokov's Last Laughs"
c.. John Quin, University of Sussex, "How Did They Ever Make a
Painting of "Lolita"?" 19.30 Punting from Trinity College
(3 punts available. See notice board in Alcock Room)
[meeting point: Boathouse, Trinity Backs
FRIDAY 9 JULY
9.15 - 11.00
a.. Maurice Couturier, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, "Writing
and Erasure, or the Other Text in Nabokov's Novels"
b.. David Bellos, Princeton University, "Nabokovian Models and
Materials in the Writing of Georges Perec"
c.. Dieter Zimmer, Hamburg, "Mimicry in Nature and Nabokov's Art"
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.45
a.. Stacy Schiff, New York, "Our Man in Great Britain: London. Spring
1939"
b.. Zinovy Zinik, London, "Double Exile: An Illusion of Rejection"
c.. Jane Grayson, SSEES, University of London, concluding remarks
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT TRINITY COLLEGE
15.00 Trinity College
Tour by fellow of the College, Adrian Poole
[meeting point: under the Clock Tower, Great Court]
17.00 - 18.00 Winstanley Lecture Hall, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College
George Steiner FBA, Churchill College, Cambridge, "A Master at Babel"
18.30 Drinks Reception, Neville Court (by invitation)
19.00 GALA DINNER (by invitation)
The Hall, Trinity College
President: Robert Pynsent (School of Slavonic and East
European Studies, London)
Guest Speakers: Brian Boyd, Dmitri Nabokov
SATURDAY 10 JULY
Departure from Cambridge
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Jane Grayson
Department of Russian
SSEES
University of London
email: j.grayson@ssees.ac.uk
tel. 0171 862 8590
Enquiries:
Ben Chatterley, Russian Departmental Administrator
email: b.chatterley@ssees.ac.uk
tel. 0171 862 8586
fax. 0171 862 8643
SSEES
University of London
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Nabokov Centennial Conference at Cambridge. Abstracts of each paper may be
found at (http://www.ssees.ac.uk/nabokov.html)
The refereed proceedings will be published next year.
-----------------------------------
VLADIMIR NABOKOV INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
CAMBRIDGE, 6-10 JULY 1999
NABOKOV AT THE CROSSROADS - FULL PROGRAMME
TUESDAY 6 JULY
11.30 REGISTRATION, Alcock Room, Jesus College
13.00 Lunch, Main Hall
14.15 - 16.00 CONFERENCE, Upper Hall, Jesus College
a.. Opening words, Don Barton Johnson, University of California at
Santa Barbara
b.. Galya Diment, University of Washington, "Cambridge, Brooke and
Goal Keeping: Young Nabokov in England"
c.. Charles Nicol, Indiana State University, "The Duel at Cambridge:
"Glory" as a Work of Anglo-Russian Literature"
d.. Grigorii Utgof, University of Tallinn, ""Podvig" (Glory) and "The
Real Life of Sebastian Knight": a Comparative Reading"
16:00 - 16.15 Tea
16:15 - 17:30
a.. Don Barton Johnson, University of California at Santa Barbara,
"Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's "Otherworld""
b.. Catriona Kelly, New College, Oxford, ""Special privacy is now to
me absolutely necessary": Nabokov, snobizm, and the representation of the
self" 18:00 Drinks Reception
Michael Branch (Director, SSEES, University of London)
20:15 Prioress's Room, Jesus College
Informal videofilm showing:
Kliuchi Nabokova (1997)
Commentary (in Russian): Evgenii Belodubrovskii (St Petersburg)
WEDNESDAY 7 JULY
9.15 - 11.00
a.. Maria Malikova, St Petersburg, "Nabokov and Pushkin. Marginalia.
Further Thoughts on the Theme of "Nabokov's Pushkin""
b.. Dale Peterson, Amherst College, "White (K)nights: Dostoevskian
Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories"
c.. Natalia Pervukhina, University of Tennessee, "Chekhov and Nabokov
in Polemic with their Time"
d.. Galina Rylkova, The Ohio State University, ""Beyond the Limits of
a Vulgar Fate": On Kuzminian Subtext in Nabokov's "The Eye" and "Pale
Fire""
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.45
a.. Vladimir Alexandrov, Yale University, "Nabokov and Tolstoy: Notes
on Allusions and Parallels"
b.. Michael Meylakh, University of the Antilles and Guyana,
"(Meta)poesis and Intertextuality: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's "Sem´
stikhotvorenii" (Seven Poems)"
c.. Julian Connolly, University of Virginia, "The Flight of Daedalus
and Icarus in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov"
13.00 Lunch
14.15 - 16.00
a.. Leona Toker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Nabokov and Bergson
on Duration and Reflexivity: "Speak, Memory" and "The Creative Mind""
b.. Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College, ""Splendid Insincerity" as
"Utmost Truthfulness": Nabokov and the Claims of the Real"
c.. Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee, "Nabokov, Mach, and
Monism at the End of the Century"
16.00 - 16.15 Tea
16.15 - 18.00
a.. Olga Skonechnaia, Gorky Institute of World Literature (IMLI),
Moscow "The Wandering Jew as Metaphor of Memory in Nabokov's Fiction of
the 1920s and 1930s"
b.. Gene Barabtarlo, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Grinding
Personal Matter (on the Movement of Nabokov's Themes)"
c.. Boris Averin, St Petersburg, "The Poetics of Memory in Nabokov's Prose"
20.15
a.. "DEAR BUNNY, DEAR VOLODYA". Dramatic dialogue adapted from the
letters of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov by Terry Quinn (performed by
Terry Quinn and Dmitri Nabokov)
Location: The Peterhouse Theatre (Auditorium)
Wine will be served beforehand.
THURSDAY 8 JULY
9.15 - 11.00
a.. Charles Lock, University of Copenhagen, "Tropes of Transparency"
b.. Rachel Trousdale, Yale University, ""Books that Others Write":
Proust, Nabokov, and James Merrill"
c.. Michael Wood, Princeton University, "Time and Again: Proust after
Nabokov"
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.45
a.. Ellen Pifer, University of Delaware, ""Did She have a Precursor?":
Lolita and Wharton's "The Children""
b.. Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University, "Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade"
c.. Brian Boyd, University of Auckland, ""Then ... Again": Shades and
Reflections of Eliot in "Pale Fire""
13.00 Lunch
14.15 - 16.00
a.. Neil Cornwell, Bristol University, "Governesses, Paintings and
"Publishing Scoundrels": Nabokov and Henry James"
b.. Lara Delage-Toriel, Newnham College, Cambridge, "Fussy Aphrodite
or the Sexual Crux in Nabokov's Last Novels"
c.. John Burt Foster, George Mason University, "Eccentric Modernism:
Nabokov and Yeats"
16.00 - 16.15 Tea
16.15 - 18.00
a.. Jenefer Coates, Middlesex University, "Nabokov's Editors"
b.. Paul Benedict Grant, Wolfson College, Cambridge, ""The Poet Kept
Smiling": Gallows Humour or Nabokov's Last Laughs"
c.. John Quin, University of Sussex, "How Did They Ever Make a
Painting of "Lolita"?" 19.30 Punting from Trinity College
(3 punts available. See notice board in Alcock Room)
[meeting point: Boathouse, Trinity Backs
FRIDAY 9 JULY
9.15 - 11.00
a.. Maurice Couturier, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, "Writing
and Erasure, or the Other Text in Nabokov's Novels"
b.. David Bellos, Princeton University, "Nabokovian Models and
Materials in the Writing of Georges Perec"
c.. Dieter Zimmer, Hamburg, "Mimicry in Nature and Nabokov's Art"
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.45
a.. Stacy Schiff, New York, "Our Man in Great Britain: London. Spring
1939"
b.. Zinovy Zinik, London, "Double Exile: An Illusion of Rejection"
c.. Jane Grayson, SSEES, University of London, concluding remarks
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT TRINITY COLLEGE
15.00 Trinity College
Tour by fellow of the College, Adrian Poole
[meeting point: under the Clock Tower, Great Court]
17.00 - 18.00 Winstanley Lecture Hall, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College
George Steiner FBA, Churchill College, Cambridge, "A Master at Babel"
18.30 Drinks Reception, Neville Court (by invitation)
19.00 GALA DINNER (by invitation)
The Hall, Trinity College
President: Robert Pynsent (School of Slavonic and East
European Studies, London)
Guest Speakers: Brian Boyd, Dmitri Nabokov
SATURDAY 10 JULY
Departure from Cambridge
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jane Grayson
Department of Russian
SSEES
University of London
email: j.grayson@ssees.ac.uk
tel. 0171 862 8590
Enquiries:
Ben Chatterley, Russian Departmental Administrator
email: b.chatterley@ssees.ac.uk
tel. 0171 862 8586
fax. 0171 862 8643
SSEES
University of London
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