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EDITOR's NOTE. The following is informational only. Dr. Jane Grayson
advises me that the conference, both
speakers and audience, is booked to capacity. Do note that abstracts will
be available at http://www.ssees.ac.uk/nabokov/html as of 28 June.
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From: Jane Grayson <grayson@ssees.ac.uk>
Subject: New Nabokov Programme
Please find enclosed the latest Nabokov Programme as an attachment and
also in text at the bottom of this message.
Please note the slightly changed order and fuller details of events.
>From Monday 28 June you will be able to view the full programme with the
Abstracts of all the participants on the SSEES Website. Please go to
www.ssees.ac.uk/nabokov.html.
Best regards
Jane Grayson
VLADIMIR NABOKOV INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
CAMBRIDGE 6-10 JULY 1999
NABOKOV AT THE CROSSROADS
Note for participants in residence: please report to the Porter's Lodge,
Jesus College, on arrival to collect your room key.
TUESDAY 6 JULY
REGISTRATION
11.30 Alcock Room, Jesus College
13.00 Lunch, Main Hall
CONFERENCE
Upper Hall, Jesus College
FIRST SESSION STARTS AT 14.15
Don Barton Johnson (UC Santa Barbara)
Opening words
Galya Diment (University of Washington)
Cambridge, Brooke and Goal-Keeping: Young Nabokov in England
Charles Nicol (Indiana State)
The Duel at Cambridge: "Glory" as a Work of Anglo-Russian Literature
Grigori Utgof (Tallinn)
"Glory" and "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight": A Comparative Reading
16.00-16.15
Tea
16.15-17.30
Don Barton Johnson (UC Santa Barbara)
Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's "Otherworld"
Catriona Kelly (New College, Oxford)
Nabokov and "Snobizm"
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
Maria Malikova (St Petersburg)
Nabokov and Pushkin
Dale Peterson (Amherst College)
White (K)nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories
Natalia Pervukhina (Tennessee)
Chekhov and Nabokov in Polemic with their Time
Galina Rylkova ( Ohio State)
"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
Vladimir Alexandrov (Yale)
Nabokov and Tolstoy: Notes on Allusions and Parallels
Michael Meylac (Antilles and Guyana)
(Meta)poesis and Intertextuality: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's "Sem'
stikotvorenii" (Seven Poems)
Julian Connolly ( Virginia)
The Flight of Daedalus and Icarus in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov
13.00 Lunch
14.15-16.00
Leona Toker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity: "Speak, Memory" and "The
Creative Mind"
Zoran Kuzmanovich (Davidson College)
"Splendid Insincerity" as"Utmost Truthfulness": Nabokov and the Claims of
the Real
Stephen Blackwell (Tennessee)
Nabokov, Mach, and Monism at the End of the Century
16.00-16.15
Tea
16.15-18.00
Olga Skonechnaia (IMLI, Moscow)
The Wandering Jew as Metaphor of Memory in Nabokov's Fiction of the 1920s
and 1930s
Gene Barabtarlo (Missouri-Columbia)
Grinding Personal Matter (on the movement of Nabokov's themes)
Boris Averin (St Petersburg)
The Poetics of Memory in Nabokov's Prose
19.45 for 20.15
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
Charles Lock (Copenhagen)
Tropes of Transparency
Rachel Trousdale (Yale )
"Books that Others Write": Proust, Nabokov, and James Merrill
Michael Wood (Princeton)
Time and Again: Proust after Nabokov
11.00-11.15
Coffee
11.15-12.45
Ellen Pifer (Delaware)
Did She have a Precursor?: "Lolita" and Wharton's "The Children"
Priscilla Meyer (Wesleyan University)
Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade
Brian Boyd (Auckland)
"Then ... Again": Shades and Reflections of Eliot in "Pale Fire"
13.00
Lunch
14.15-16.00
Neil Cornwell (Bristol)
Governesses, Paintings and "Publishing Scoundrels": Nabokov and Henry James
Lara Delage-Toriel (Newnham College, Cambridge)
Fussy Aphrodite or the Sexual Crux in Nabokov's Last Novels
John Burt Foster (George Mason University)
Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats
16.00-16.15
Tea
16.15-18.00
Jenefer Coates (Middlesex)
Nabokov's Editors
Paul Benedict Grant (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
"The Poet Kept Smiling": Gallows Humour or Nabokov's Last Laughs
John Quin (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
Maurice Couturier (Nice)
Writing and Erasure, or the Other Text in Nabokov's Novels
David Bellos (Princeton)
Nabokovian Models and Materials in the Writing of Georges Perec
Dieter Zimmer (Hamburg)
Mimicry in Nature and Nabokov's Art
11.00-11.15
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 (SSEES, London)
concluding remarks
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT TRINITY COLLEGE
15.00 Trinity College
Tour by member 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 (SSEES, London)
Guest Speakers: Brian Boyd, Dmitri Nabokov
SATURDAY 10 JULY
Departure from Cambridge
advises me that the conference, both
speakers and audience, is booked to capacity. Do note that abstracts will
be available at http://www.ssees.ac.uk/nabokov/html as of 28 June.
---------------------------------
From: Jane Grayson <grayson@ssees.ac.uk>
Subject: New Nabokov Programme
Please find enclosed the latest Nabokov Programme as an attachment and
also in text at the bottom of this message.
Please note the slightly changed order and fuller details of events.
>From Monday 28 June you will be able to view the full programme with the
Abstracts of all the participants on the SSEES Website. Please go to
www.ssees.ac.uk/nabokov.html.
Best regards
Jane Grayson
VLADIMIR NABOKOV INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
CAMBRIDGE 6-10 JULY 1999
NABOKOV AT THE CROSSROADS
Note for participants in residence: please report to the Porter's Lodge,
Jesus College, on arrival to collect your room key.
TUESDAY 6 JULY
REGISTRATION
11.30 Alcock Room, Jesus College
13.00 Lunch, Main Hall
CONFERENCE
Upper Hall, Jesus College
FIRST SESSION STARTS AT 14.15
Don Barton Johnson (UC Santa Barbara)
Opening words
Galya Diment (University of Washington)
Cambridge, Brooke and Goal-Keeping: Young Nabokov in England
Charles Nicol (Indiana State)
The Duel at Cambridge: "Glory" as a Work of Anglo-Russian Literature
Grigori Utgof (Tallinn)
"Glory" and "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight": A Comparative Reading
16.00-16.15
Tea
16.15-17.30
Don Barton Johnson (UC Santa Barbara)
Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's "Otherworld"
Catriona Kelly (New College, Oxford)
Nabokov and "Snobizm"
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
Maria Malikova (St Petersburg)
Nabokov and Pushkin
Dale Peterson (Amherst College)
White (K)nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories
Natalia Pervukhina (Tennessee)
Chekhov and Nabokov in Polemic with their Time
Galina Rylkova ( Ohio State)
"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
Vladimir Alexandrov (Yale)
Nabokov and Tolstoy: Notes on Allusions and Parallels
Michael Meylac (Antilles and Guyana)
(Meta)poesis and Intertextuality: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's "Sem'
stikotvorenii" (Seven Poems)
Julian Connolly ( Virginia)
The Flight of Daedalus and Icarus in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov
13.00 Lunch
14.15-16.00
Leona Toker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity: "Speak, Memory" and "The
Creative Mind"
Zoran Kuzmanovich (Davidson College)
"Splendid Insincerity" as"Utmost Truthfulness": Nabokov and the Claims of
the Real
Stephen Blackwell (Tennessee)
Nabokov, Mach, and Monism at the End of the Century
16.00-16.15
Tea
16.15-18.00
Olga Skonechnaia (IMLI, Moscow)
The Wandering Jew as Metaphor of Memory in Nabokov's Fiction of the 1920s
and 1930s
Gene Barabtarlo (Missouri-Columbia)
Grinding Personal Matter (on the movement of Nabokov's themes)
Boris Averin (St Petersburg)
The Poetics of Memory in Nabokov's Prose
19.45 for 20.15
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
Charles Lock (Copenhagen)
Tropes of Transparency
Rachel Trousdale (Yale )
"Books that Others Write": Proust, Nabokov, and James Merrill
Michael Wood (Princeton)
Time and Again: Proust after Nabokov
11.00-11.15
Coffee
11.15-12.45
Ellen Pifer (Delaware)
Did She have a Precursor?: "Lolita" and Wharton's "The Children"
Priscilla Meyer (Wesleyan University)
Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade
Brian Boyd (Auckland)
"Then ... Again": Shades and Reflections of Eliot in "Pale Fire"
13.00
Lunch
14.15-16.00
Neil Cornwell (Bristol)
Governesses, Paintings and "Publishing Scoundrels": Nabokov and Henry James
Lara Delage-Toriel (Newnham College, Cambridge)
Fussy Aphrodite or the Sexual Crux in Nabokov's Last Novels
John Burt Foster (George Mason University)
Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats
16.00-16.15
Tea
16.15-18.00
Jenefer Coates (Middlesex)
Nabokov's Editors
Paul Benedict Grant (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
"The Poet Kept Smiling": Gallows Humour or Nabokov's Last Laughs
John Quin (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
Maurice Couturier (Nice)
Writing and Erasure, or the Other Text in Nabokov's Novels
David Bellos (Princeton)
Nabokovian Models and Materials in the Writing of Georges Perec
Dieter Zimmer (Hamburg)
Mimicry in Nature and Nabokov's Art
11.00-11.15
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 (SSEES, London)
concluding remarks
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT TRINITY COLLEGE
15.00 Trinity College
Tour by member 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 (SSEES, London)
Guest Speakers: Brian Boyd, Dmitri Nabokov
SATURDAY 10 JULY
Departure from Cambridge