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VLADIMIR NABOKOV INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
CAMBRIDGE 6-10 JULY 1999
(JESUS COLLEGE)
'NABOKOV AT THE CROSSROADS'
TUESDAY 6 JULY
11.30 REGISTRATION, Alcock Room, Jesus College
13.00 LUNCH
14.15-16.00
CONFERENCE, Upper Hall, Jesus College
DON BARTON JOHNSON, University of California at Santa Barbara, opening
words
GALYA DIMENT, University of Washington, 'Cambridge, Brooke and Goal
Keeping: Young Nabokov in England'
CHARLES NICOL, Indiana State University, 'The Duel at Cambridge; "Glory"
as a Work of Anglo-Russian Literature'
MARIA MALIKOVA, St Petersburg, 'Three English Poets: Walter de la Mare,
Rupert Brooke and Vladimir Nabokov'
16.00 TEA
16.15-17.30
DON BARTON JOHNSON, University of California at Santa Barbara, 'Vladimir
Nabokov and Walter de la Mare'
CATRIONA KELLY, New College, Oxford, 'Nabokov and "Snobizm"'
18.00 DRINKS RECEPTION
WEDNESDAY 7 JULY
9.00-11.00
DALE PETERSON, Amherst College, 'White (K)nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in
Nabokov's Early Stories'
NATALIA PERVUKHINA, University of Tennessee, 'Chekhov and Nabokov in
Polemic with their Time'
GALINA RYLKOVA, University of Toronto, '"Beyond the Limits of a Vulgar
Fate": On Kuzminian Subtext in Nabokov's 'The Eye' and 'Pale Fire''
VLADIMIR ALEXANDROV, Yale University, 'Nabokov and Tolstoy: Notes on
Allusions and Parallels'
11.00 COFFEE
11.15-12.45
NORA BUKHS, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 'Nabokov's English
Introductions to
the Translations of his Russian Novels and the problems of Cultural
Recodification'
JULIAN CONNOLLY, University of Virginia, 'The Flight of Daedalus and
Icarus in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov'
ALEXANDER DOLININ, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 'Nabokov's Early
Novels and the Russian Literary Tradition'
13.00 LUNCH
14.00-16.00
LEONA TOKER, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 'Nabokov and Bergson on
Duration and Reflexivity: "Speak, Memory" and "The Creative Mind"'
STEPHEN BLACKWELL, University of Tennesse, 'Nabokov, Mach, and Morrison
at the End of the Century'
SAMUIL LURIE, St Petersburg, 'Emmanuil Kant's Philosophy in the Poetics
of Nabokov:" Invitation to a Beheading"'
16.00 TEA
16.15-18.00
BORIS AVERIN, St Petersburg, 'The Poetics of Memory in Nabokov's Prose'
OLGA SKONECHNAIA, Gorky Institute of World Literature (IMLI), 'The
Wandering Jew as Metaphor of Memory in Nabokov's Fiction of the 1920s and
1930s'
GENE BARABTARLO, University of Missouri-Columbia, 'Grinding Personal
Matter (on the Movement of Nabokov's Themes'
...........
20.15 'DEAR BUNNY, DEAR VOLODYA'. Dramatic dialogue adapted from the
letters of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov by TERRY QUIN (performed
by TERRY QUINN AND DMITRI NABOKOV)
THE AUDITORIUM, PETERHOUSE
THURSDAY 8 JULY
9.00-11.00
MICHAEL MEYLAKH, St Petersburg (to be confirmed)
RACHEL TROUSDALE, Yale University,'"Books that Others Write": Proust,
Nabokov, and James Merrill'
MICHAEL WOOD, Princeton University, 'Time and Again: Proust after Nabokov'
11.00 COFFEE
11.15-12.45
ELLEN PIFER, University of Delaware, 'Did she have a precursor?: "Lolita"
and Wharton's "The Children"'
PRISCILLA MEYER, Wesleyan University, 'Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade'
BRIAN BOYD, University of Auckland, '"Then ... Again"" Shades and
Reflections of Eliot in "Pale Fire"'
13.00 LUNCH
14.15-16.00
NEIL CORNWELL, Bristol University, 'Governesses, Paintings and
"Publishing Scoundrels": Nabokov and Henry James'
LARA DELAGE-TORIEL, Newnham College, Cambridge, 'Fussy Aphrodite or the
sexual Crux in Some of Nabokov's Novels'
JOHN BURT FOSTER, George Mason University, 'Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov
and Yeats'
16.00 TEA
16.15-18.00
PAUL BENEDICT GRANT, Newnham College, Cambridge, '"The Poet Kept
Smiling": Gallows Humour or Nabokov's Last Laughs'
JENEFER COATES, Middlesex University, "Nabokov's Editors"
ZORAN KUZMANOVICH, Davidson College, '"Splendid Insincerity" as "Utmost
Truthfulness": Nabokov and the Claims of the Real'
FRIDAY 9 JULY
9.00-11.00
MAURICE COUTURIER, University de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 'Writing and
Erasure, or the Other Text in Nabokov's Novels'
DAVID BELLOS, Princeton University, 'Children of Another Knight:
Nabokovian Inscriptions in the Fictions of Georges Perec'
DIETER ZIMMER, Hamburg, 'Mimicry in Nature and Nabokov's Art'
11.00 COFFEE
11.15-12.45
STACY SCHIFF, New York, 'Our Man in Great Britain: London. spring 1939'
ZINOVY ZINIK, London, 'Double Exile: An Illusion of Rejection'
JANE GRAYSON, SSEEES, University of London, concluding remarks
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT TRINITY COLLEGE
15.00 Tour of Trinity College by member of the College
17.00-18.00 Winstanley Lecture Hall
GEORGE STEINER, Churchill College, Cambridge, 'A Master at Babel'
18.30 DRINKS RECEPTION
19.00 GALA DINNER, The Hall, Trinity College (by invitation)
Guest speakers: BRIAN BOYD, DMITRI NABOKOV
SATURDAY 10 JULY
Departure from Cambridge
Please Note
This programme may be subject to late changes. Some of our participants
have yet to hear whether they have been succussful in applications for
funding.
Jane Grayson
Department of Russian
SSEES
University of London
Tel. 0171 862 8590
Fax. 0171 862 8643
Enquiries: Ben Chatterley, Departmental Administrator
Tel. 0171 862 8586
Fax. 0171 862 8643
VLADIMIR NABOKOV INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
CAMBRIDGE 6-10 JULY 1999
(JESUS COLLEGE)
'NABOKOV AT THE CROSSROADS'
TUESDAY 6 JULY
11.30 REGISTRATION, Alcock Room, Jesus College
13.00 LUNCH
14.15-16.00
CONFERENCE, Upper Hall, Jesus College
DON BARTON JOHNSON, University of California at Santa Barbara, opening
words
GALYA DIMENT, University of Washington, 'Cambridge, Brooke and Goal
Keeping: Young Nabokov in England'
CHARLES NICOL, Indiana State University, 'The Duel at Cambridge; "Glory"
as a Work of Anglo-Russian Literature'
MARIA MALIKOVA, St Petersburg, 'Three English Poets: Walter de la Mare,
Rupert Brooke and Vladimir Nabokov'
16.00 TEA
16.15-17.30
DON BARTON JOHNSON, University of California at Santa Barbara, 'Vladimir
Nabokov and Walter de la Mare'
CATRIONA KELLY, New College, Oxford, 'Nabokov and "Snobizm"'
18.00 DRINKS RECEPTION
WEDNESDAY 7 JULY
9.00-11.00
DALE PETERSON, Amherst College, 'White (K)nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in
Nabokov's Early Stories'
NATALIA PERVUKHINA, University of Tennessee, 'Chekhov and Nabokov in
Polemic with their Time'
GALINA RYLKOVA, University of Toronto, '"Beyond the Limits of a Vulgar
Fate": On Kuzminian Subtext in Nabokov's 'The Eye' and 'Pale Fire''
VLADIMIR ALEXANDROV, Yale University, 'Nabokov and Tolstoy: Notes on
Allusions and Parallels'
11.00 COFFEE
11.15-12.45
NORA BUKHS, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 'Nabokov's English
Introductions to
the Translations of his Russian Novels and the problems of Cultural
Recodification'
JULIAN CONNOLLY, University of Virginia, 'The Flight of Daedalus and
Icarus in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov'
ALEXANDER DOLININ, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 'Nabokov's Early
Novels and the Russian Literary Tradition'
13.00 LUNCH
14.00-16.00
LEONA TOKER, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 'Nabokov and Bergson on
Duration and Reflexivity: "Speak, Memory" and "The Creative Mind"'
STEPHEN BLACKWELL, University of Tennesse, 'Nabokov, Mach, and Morrison
at the End of the Century'
SAMUIL LURIE, St Petersburg, 'Emmanuil Kant's Philosophy in the Poetics
of Nabokov:" Invitation to a Beheading"'
16.00 TEA
16.15-18.00
BORIS AVERIN, St Petersburg, 'The Poetics of Memory in Nabokov's Prose'
OLGA SKONECHNAIA, Gorky Institute of World Literature (IMLI), 'The
Wandering Jew as Metaphor of Memory in Nabokov's Fiction of the 1920s and
1930s'
GENE BARABTARLO, University of Missouri-Columbia, 'Grinding Personal
Matter (on the Movement of Nabokov's Themes'
...........
20.15 'DEAR BUNNY, DEAR VOLODYA'. Dramatic dialogue adapted from the
letters of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov by TERRY QUIN (performed
by TERRY QUINN AND DMITRI NABOKOV)
THE AUDITORIUM, PETERHOUSE
THURSDAY 8 JULY
9.00-11.00
MICHAEL MEYLAKH, St Petersburg (to be confirmed)
RACHEL TROUSDALE, Yale University,'"Books that Others Write": Proust,
Nabokov, and James Merrill'
MICHAEL WOOD, Princeton University, 'Time and Again: Proust after Nabokov'
11.00 COFFEE
11.15-12.45
ELLEN PIFER, University of Delaware, 'Did she have a precursor?: "Lolita"
and Wharton's "The Children"'
PRISCILLA MEYER, Wesleyan University, 'Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade'
BRIAN BOYD, University of Auckland, '"Then ... Again"" Shades and
Reflections of Eliot in "Pale Fire"'
13.00 LUNCH
14.15-16.00
NEIL CORNWELL, Bristol University, 'Governesses, Paintings and
"Publishing Scoundrels": Nabokov and Henry James'
LARA DELAGE-TORIEL, Newnham College, Cambridge, 'Fussy Aphrodite or the
sexual Crux in Some of Nabokov's Novels'
JOHN BURT FOSTER, George Mason University, 'Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov
and Yeats'
16.00 TEA
16.15-18.00
PAUL BENEDICT GRANT, Newnham College, Cambridge, '"The Poet Kept
Smiling": Gallows Humour or Nabokov's Last Laughs'
JENEFER COATES, Middlesex University, "Nabokov's Editors"
ZORAN KUZMANOVICH, Davidson College, '"Splendid Insincerity" as "Utmost
Truthfulness": Nabokov and the Claims of the Real'
FRIDAY 9 JULY
9.00-11.00
MAURICE COUTURIER, University de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 'Writing and
Erasure, or the Other Text in Nabokov's Novels'
DAVID BELLOS, Princeton University, 'Children of Another Knight:
Nabokovian Inscriptions in the Fictions of Georges Perec'
DIETER ZIMMER, Hamburg, 'Mimicry in Nature and Nabokov's Art'
11.00 COFFEE
11.15-12.45
STACY SCHIFF, New York, 'Our Man in Great Britain: London. spring 1939'
ZINOVY ZINIK, London, 'Double Exile: An Illusion of Rejection'
JANE GRAYSON, SSEEES, University of London, concluding remarks
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT TRINITY COLLEGE
15.00 Tour of Trinity College by member of the College
17.00-18.00 Winstanley Lecture Hall
GEORGE STEINER, Churchill College, Cambridge, 'A Master at Babel'
18.30 DRINKS RECEPTION
19.00 GALA DINNER, The Hall, Trinity College (by invitation)
Guest speakers: BRIAN BOYD, DMITRI NABOKOV
SATURDAY 10 JULY
Departure from Cambridge
Please Note
This programme may be subject to late changes. Some of our participants
have yet to hear whether they have been succussful in applications for
funding.
Jane Grayson
Department of Russian
SSEES
University of London
Tel. 0171 862 8590
Fax. 0171 862 8643
Enquiries: Ben Chatterley, Departmental Administrator
Tel. 0171 862 8586
Fax. 0171 862 8643