Third International Conference on Nabokov

June 21-23, 2006

Centre Université Méditerranéen (Nice)

Topic of the conference: “Annotating vs. Interpreting Nabokov”

Wednesday, June 21

Official opening at 9 o’clock.

- Ellen Pifer, University of Delaware, “A Finding: the Real Key to Lolita: A Modest Proposal”

- Alexander Dolinin, University of Wisconsin in Madison, “Nabokov’s Paratexts and the Authorial Intention: a Case of Lolita”

- Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Holy Cross College, “’Had I Come Before Myself’: Illegitimate Judgments in Nabokov”

- Tatyana Pomareva, Director of the Nabokov Museum in Saint-Petersburg, “The Nabokov Museum: Present and Future”

Public session (in French): 3 pm, main auditorium

- Jeff Edmunds, Editor of Zembla, Pennsylvania State University, « Nabokov à l’âge d’internet »

- Brian Boyd, University of Auckland, New Zealand, « Lolita de Nabokov : Evidences et énigmes ».

Thursday, June 22

Morning session: 9 o’clock

- Galya Diment, University of Washington in Seattle, “Vladimir Nabokov and Early Silent Film”

- D. Barton Johnson, University of California in Santa Barbara, “Van’s ‘Last Tango’, in Ada: A Song and two films”

- Geoffrey Green, San Francisco University, “The Man in the Mirror: Considering Alfred Hitchcock as a Model toward resolving Vertigo (1958) of Annotation vs. Interpretation in Nabokov’s Lolita (1955)

- Delage-Teriel, Lara, University of Strasbourg, “Disclosures under Seal: Nabokov, Secrecy and the Reader”

Thursday afternoon: 2.30 pm

- Gennady Barabtarlo, University of Missouri, “A Good Knight – for Nothing”

- John Burt Foster, George Mason University, “Framing Nabokov: Modernism, Multiculturalism, World Literature”

- Monica Manolescu, “University of Paris 7, “Verbal Adventures in the Inky Jungle: Marco Polo and Mandeville in the Gift”

- Jenefer Coates, “Translation and Intertextuality”

- Andrey Babikov, “On Germination of the Nabokov ‘Main Theme’ in his Story ‘Natasha’”

- David Rampton, “University of Ottawa, “Nabokov and the Passions of Reading”

Friday, June 23

Morning session: 9.00

- Julian W. Connolly, University of Virginia, “The Challenge of Interpreting and Decoding Nabokov’s Work: Strategies and Suggestions”

- Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College, “Legitimizing Belief and Critical Practice, or, Reading Nabokov as if Differences Mattered”

- Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University, “Life as Annotation”

- Michael Wood, Princeton University, “The Figure in the Crypt”

Friday afternoon

Public lecture: 4.00pm

David Lodge, novelist, “Nabokov and the Campus Novel” (“Nabokov et le roman universitaire”). With simultaneous translation.

8 p.m. Gala Dinner at “Le Palais de la Méditerranée”