Vladimir Nabokov

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Translation of Tartu VN Conference Program (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Vladimir Mylnikov <mylnikov@jingxian.xmu.edu.cn>,
NABOKV-L's Man-in-China, has responded to our request for a quick
translation of the program of the on-going Tallin Nabokov Conference.
Our thanks to Vladimir.
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January 14 (Thursday) - Tallinn

10.30 - 12.00 - The opening of the Conference (Rein Veideman's Opening
Speech 'Vladimir Nabokov and multicultural Estonia')

12.00 -Coffee

12.30 -13.00 - Aleksandr Dolinin (Madison). 'On Some Anagramms in Vladimir
Nabokov's works'.

13.00 - 13.30 - Irina Belobrovtseva (Tallinn). The Discourse on Shadows in
Vladimir Nabokov.

13.30 -14.30 - Lunch

14.30 - 15.00 - Elda Garetto (Milan). Vladimir Nabokov and Italo Kalvino:
In the Search of the Ideal Reader'


15.00 - 15.30 - Elena Grigor'eva (Tartu). The Author and the Reader in
Nabokov's 'Despair'.

15.30 - 16.00 - Svetlana Polskaia (Go''teborg). Nabokov's Unknown Short
Story.

16.00 - 16.30 - Coffee

16.30 - 17.00 - Pavel Lavrinets (Vilnius). Nabokov in Lithuania.



17.00 - 17.30 - Liudmila Sproge, Dace Luse (Riga). On Nabokov's Works in
Latvia: The Introduction to a Theme.

17.30 - 18.00 - Rein Saluri (Tallinn). Ten Mistakes Which Are on the Watch
for Every Nabokov's Translator.

18.00 - 19.00 - Discussion.

January 15(Friday) - Tallinn.

10.00 - 10.30 - Vadim Stark (S.-Peterburg). Geneological Passages in
Vladimir Nabokov's works.

10.30 - 11.00 - Jane Grayson (London). Nabokov's Balancing Act

11.00 - 11.30 - Mihail Lotman (Tallinn). Some Sketches about the Verse
Structure in Nabokov.

11.30 - 12.00 - Coffee.

12.00 - 12.30 - Anna Brodskaia (Lexington). The Art after Aushvitts.
Nabokov's Lolita and Sokolov's Palisandria.

12.30 - 13.00 - Kazunao Sugimoto (Nagoya). The Creative Narrator: Vladimir
Nabokov's Short Story "Bahman" in the Whole Nabokov's Context.

13.00 - 13.30 - Marina Grishakova (Tartu). On Some Allusions in Vladimir
Nabokov.

13.30 - 14.30 - Lunch.

14.30 - 15.00 - Georgii Levinton (S.- Peterburg). Commentaries to the
'Commentaries to Ada.

15.00 - 15.30 - Yuichi Isahaya (Kioto). "Lights" and "Darkness" in
Nabokov's Novel "Glory".

15.30 - 16.00 - Grigorii Utgof (Tallinn). Vladimir Nabokov's Novels "Glory
and "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight": the Result of Comparison Reading.

16.00 - 16.30 - Coffee.

16.30 - 17.00 - Karl Schlo"gel (Frankfurt (Oder)). The Erosion of Weimar
Culture: Vladimir Nabokov Diagnosis

17.00 - 17.30 - Liudmila Sproge (Riga). Vladimir Nabokov in Tatiana
Ratgaus' Albums.

17.30 - 18.00 - Toomas Raudam (Tallinn). My Nabokov

18.00 - 19.00 - Discussion.

January 16 (Saturday) - Tallinn.

10.00 - 10.30 - Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston). Nabokov's Sexography.

10.30 - 11.00 - Vera Polishchuk (S.- Peterburg). Poetics of Material
Object in Nabokov's prose.

11.00 - 11.30 - Joanna M. Trzeciak (Chicago). Every Hunter Wants to Know
...: Synesthesia in Nabokov's Autobiography Three Versions .

11.30 - 12.00 - Coffee.

12.00 - 12.30 - Fiodor Fiodorov (Daugavpils). Vladimir Nabokov's Poetry and
Russian Poetry of "The Silver Age".

12.30 - 13.00 - Savelii Senderovich, Ielena Shvarts (Ithaca)_. The Death
Farce: the Sketches on the Srtucture of Nabokov's Novel "Bend Sinister".

13.00 - 13.30 - Ol'ga Skonechnaia (Moskva). "I" and "He": to the Question
of Nabokov's Perception of Prust's Tradition in the Thirties.

13.30 - 14.30 - Lunch.

14.30 - 15.00 - Svetlana Turovskaia (Tallinn). Vladimir Nabokov's Short
Story "A Dashing Fellow": to the Question of Short Story Poetical Technique.

15.00 - 15.30 - Mariia Malikova (S.- Peterburg). What Is Iasha
Chernyshevskii Made of.
15.30 - 16.00 - Andrei Babikov (Moskva). On the Construction of Home-Time
Image in Nabokov.

16.00 - 16.30 Coffee.

16.30 - 17.00 - Iraida Seredenko (Tomsk). The Bol'shevik's Underground in
Dostoevski and Nabokov.

17.00 - 17.30 - Aleksandr Danilevskii (Tartu). Nabokov's Play "The Event"
in Iurii Annenkov's Staging.

17.30 - 18.30 - Discussion.

18.30 - 20.00 - A fragment from the film based on the motives of Nabokov's
short story "The Scoundrel" is presented by the film director Valentin
Kuik; videofilm about The Nabokovs country estate and their house in
S.Petersburg.

January 17 (Sunday) - Tartu.

9.00 - The bus to Tartu.

12.00 - Coffee.

12.30 -13.30 - The Summing up of the Seminar.

13.30 - The Excursion to Tartu and to University of Tartu.

16.00 - The Friendly dinner.

20.30 - The bus to Tallinn.