Gogol Conference

Mon Jun 10 15:55:09 UTC 2002

Please find attached the programme and booking form for the forthcoming 
Gogol conference.

	GOGOL 2002

	A CONFERENCE TO MARK 150 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF
	NIKOLAI GOGOL

	to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 16-18 September, 2002
	under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle

	Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK	

	PROGRAMME

Monday 16 September

1.00	Lunch

2.00	Panel 1: Thematic Approaches

	Neil Cornwell (Bristol): The Absurd in Gogol
	Julian Graffy (UCL/SSEES): Gogol's Clothes
	Richard Peace (Bristol): Aspects of Gogolian Logic
	Willem Weststeijn (Amsterdam):  Gogol and Illness	

4.00	Tea

4.15	Panel 2: Gogol and Other Arts

	Birgit Beumers (Bristol): Turning and Turning Inside Out: Playful 
Explorations of Gogolian Texts on Stage and Screen in the 1990s		
Helena Goscilo (Pittsburgh): Syn/crisis in Gardens of Earthly Plights: 
Bosching Gogol 	Arnold Mcmillin (UCL/SSEES): The Petersburg Stories as set 
to Music by Russian Composers	

5.45	Panel 3: Gogol and Modernism

	Justin Doherty (Trinity College Dublin): Gogol and Russian Futurism
	Greta Slobin (Santa Cruz): The Battle for the Modernist Gogol in 
the 1920s and 1930s

7.00	Dinner

8.00	Gogol Films

Tuesday 17 September

8.00	Breakfast

9.00	Panel 4: Theme and Text

	Andrzej Dudek (Kraków): Gogol's Vision of Culture
	Radosvet Kolarov (Sofia): Self-Parody in Gogol
	Jutta Möhrke (Keele): The Sense of An Ending in Gogol
	Robert Reid (Keele): Gogol: A Stoic Reading

11.00	Coffee

11.30	Panel 5: Gogol and Other Russian Writers

	Leon Burnett (Essex): On First Looking into Zhukovskii's Homer: 
Gogol and Cultural Assimilation 	Lyubov Kiseleva (Tartu): Gogol and 
Zhukovskii		Michael Pursglove: Grigorovich's Gogolian hybrid: 
Kapellmeister Suslikov

1.00	Lunch

2.00	Panel 6: Texts

	Robin Aizlewood (UCL/SSEES): The man who was(n't) there: Pirogov 
and the representation of  nothingness 	Nina Gourianova (Harvard): 
Landscape of Transformation: Metamorphosis in Gogol's Old-World 
Landowners 	Audun Mørch (Oslo): Gogol's Overcoat: Revaluing All Values
	Petre Petrov (Pittsburgh): Gogol's Gamblers: Lectoral and Libidinal Penetrations

4.00	Tea

4.30	Collective Analysis of the last four pages of Chapter 8 and the 
first six pages of Chapter 9 of Dead Souls 	led by Michael O'Toole 
(Murdoch)

6.30	Reception
7.00	Anniversary Dinner

Wednesday 18 September

8.00	Breakfast

9.00	Panel 7: Cultural Questions

	Catriona Kelly and Andy Byford (Oxford): Remembering A Great 
Russian Writer: The Gogol Jubilees of 1909 and 1952 	Harriet Murav 
(Davis): Gogol, Mendele, and the Question of Ethnic Literature 	Joseph 
Sherman (Oxford): The Non-reflecting Mirror: Gogol's Influence on Sholem 
Aleichem 	Tatiana Smoliarova (Harvard): Gogol as the Basis of  
Formalist Theories 11.00	Coffee

11.30	Panel 8: Gogol and Russian Culture

	Eric de Haard (Amsterdam): Gogol's and Tolstoi's Madmen: On the
Dimensions of Intertextuality 	Henrietta Mondry (Canterbury, NZ): Gogol's 
Body, Rozanov's Gaze 	David Shepherd (Sheffield): Naming and Shaming: 
Bakhtin on Gogol and the History of the Grotesque

1.00	Lunch and Close

	GOGOL 2002

	A CONFERENCE TO MARK 150 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF
	NIKOLAI GOGOL

	to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 16-18 September, 2002
	under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle

	Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK	

	BOOKING FORM

The conference will run from lunch on Monday, 16 September until lunch on 
Wednesday, 16 September.  Please tick whatever facilities you wish and 
fill in the sections of name, date, etc., then return the form as soon as 
possible to the address below, with payment made out to ‘Essays in 
Poetics', and in any event by 9 August 2002.  It would be of great 
assistance to us if the full amount could be paid in advance: all prices 
are in pounds sterling.  If you have received this electronically, it may 
be returned in the same way, or please print a copy and send back by post: 
cheques will obviously have to be sent by post in any 
event. 
_____________________________________________________________________________
13 September	Lunch					(10.50) . . . . . . . 

		Tea					(1.75) . . . . . . .

		Dinner				(15.00)  . . . . . .

		Bedroom : ensuite			(42.25)  . . . . . .

			 ordinary			(30.25)  . . . . . .
			    			twin (per person)	
(28.25)  . . . . . . 

17 September	Breakfast				(7.75) . . . . . . .

		Coffee				(1.75) . . . . . . .

		Lunch					(10.50) . . . . . . .

		Tea					(1.75) . . . . . . .

		Anniversary Dinner 
		(includes reception & wine)		(33.00)  . . . . . .

		Bedroom : ensuite			(42.25)  . . . . . .

			 ordinary			(30.25)  . . . . . .

			twin (per person)		(28.25)  . . . . . . 
15 September	Breakfast				(7.75) . . . . . . .

		Coffee				(1.75) . . . . . . .

		Lunch					(10.50) . . . . . . .

		Vegetarian Meals Required		. . . . . . . . . . .

		Conference Fee			(40.00)  . . . . . .

(Please tick meals etc. required and please specify if vegetarian or other 
special requirements)

NAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	 	SIGNATURE 
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ADDRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		DATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

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Please return the completed form with payment to:
Neo-Formalist Circle
SOLCCA (Russian)
Keele University, 
Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG, 
UK

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Joe Andrew
j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk

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