MIDDLEBURY RUSSIAN SCHOOL SYMPOSIUM/ announcement

[ilya vinitsky]

MIDDLEBURY RUSSIAN SCHOOL LITERARY SYMPOSIUM

  In conjunction with the recent closing of Norwich University Russian
  School, this year's literary symposium has moved to the Russian School of
  Middlebury College.

  The symposium attracts scholars of Russian literature and culture for a
  weekend of papers and discussions about current topics. In the past,
  symposia have focused on authors, such as Pasternak, Derzhavin,
  Lermontov, and Pushkin, as well as on cultural topics, such as "Hoaxes
  and Forgeries in Russian Literature."

  In the summer of 2001, the Middlebury Russian School Symposium will be
  entitled "Nachalo Veka kak kult'urnyi fenomen."

The symposium will be hosted by the Russian School on the campus of
  Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont during the weekend of July
  20-22, 2001.

The symposium will be opened with a lecture by Lev Loseff and a concert by
Tat'iana Iampol'skaia at Middlebury's Center for the Fine Arts the evening
of July 20th and will resume the following morning with papers by symposium
participants.

Symposium participants will bear all costs of room and
  board. Interested participants may contact Ilya Vinitsky
  (ILV1+ at pitt.edu), symposium organizer, for further information.

  Description:

THE RISE OF A NEW CENTURY AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON IN RUSSIA

  At the end of the 18th c. Nikolai Karamzin prophesied: "Oh, Rossy, vek
  griadet v Rossii velichaishii!" Similar prophesies one may easily find in
  the works of numerous Russian poets, artists, composers, and politicians
  of the late 19th and 20th centuries. The apocalyptic idea of a new age
  with its great expectations, fears, and premonitions is deeply inherent
  in Russian cultural consciousness. Hypothetically, the notion of the
  beautiful or terrifying "beginning of a century" is opposed to the
  traditional notion of the melancholy "fin de ciecle." The present
  conference is conceived as the discussion of various representations of
  this idea in Russian literature, painting, music, architecture, or
 politics from the late 17th to the late 20th centuries.

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