Cambridge conference

[Yelena]

Dear colleagues,
Some time ago there was an announcement sent to this list about conference
on Russian-English tranclation which will take place in Cambridge, April,
2004. May be somebody had saved this information? Please, send to me this
announcement if possible. Thank you in advance, sincerely yours, Yelena
Minyonok
----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Samu" <mas487 at NYU.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:52 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian Landscape Conference


> LANDSCAPE AND THE ARTS IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA
> TWO-DAY CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE TO
> ACCOMPANY THE EXHIBITION OF RUSSIAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING
> AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON
> 9TH-11TH SEPTEMBER 2004
>
> This international conference will be held at the University of
> Cambridge  and the National Gallery, London, from the afternoon of
> Thursday 9th  September to the evening of Saturday 11th September
> 2004.? It will include  one panel in Cambridge on Thursday, four
> panels in Cambridge on Friday, and  one panel in London on
> Saturday, when there will also be an opportunity to  view the exhibition
> at the National Gallery.? There will be a conference  dinner in
> Pembroke College, Cambridge on Friday 10th September, and a wine
> reception in the National Gallery to conclude the conference at 5 p.m.
> on  Saturday 11th September.
>
> The conference organisers invite proposals for papers on any aspect
> of  landscape and the arts in Imperial Russia, and encourage those
> which adopt  an interdisciplinary approach.? Each paper should last for
> no more than  thirty minutes, and can be delivered in English or
> Russian.
>
> The landscape of imperial Russia has long been a potent site of
> individual  and collective aspiration in shaping a national identity.? Its
> celebration  in folklore, song and literature as symbol and metaphor
> for patriotic  sentiment and loyalist pride has been the subject of
> considerable research.  In contrast, its production and dissemination
> within the visual arts has  been largely unexplored.? The important
> Russian landscape exhibition which  will take place in London and
> Groningen in 2003-2004, the first major show  of its kind in the West,
> provides a timely opportunity to redress this  balance by examining
> different readings and visual expressions of landscape  in Imperial
> Russian culture.
>
> Landscape has been assigned a variety of roles in the Russian arts: it
> has  carried the burden of representation, it has been promoted as a
> vehicle for  liberal-reformist aspiration, and it has been appropriated
> as an emblem of  conservative Slavophilia, to mention just three.? At
> the same time the  genre has been a space of progressive stylistic
> experimentation; it has  served as the fulcrum for contentious debate
> concerning the worthiness of  indigenous subject matter, and the
> authority and authenticity of the  encounter with the 'native'; and it has
> been both a forum for national  assertiveness, and a testing ground
> for academic and progressive trends in  Western European art.? By
> focusing exclusively on landscape or by taking it  as a point of
> departure, this conference aims to explore these and other  ideas,
> shedding light on the many ways in which representations of the land
> reflected and shaped intellectual preoccupations which ranged from
> theocratic, aristocratic and democratic interests to artistic and
> aesthetic  debates.? Encouraging both an interdisciplinary perspective
> and  interventions from social, political, literary, and philosophical
> thought,  it will enable internationally recognized scholars of Russian
> culture to  expose, question and debate the complex and challenging
> contribution which  landscape has made to the Russian arts.
>
> Abstracts for papers should be no longer than 400 words in length,
> and  should be submitted to both Dr Rosalind Polly Blakesley (n?e
> Gray), at  rpg27 at cam.ac.uk, and Dr David Jackson, at
> d.jackson at leeds.ac.uk by 31st  October 2003.? Please also let us
> know if you are not offering a paper but  would like to reserve a place
> on the conference.? The organisers aim to  respond to all proposals
> and finalise the programme by the end of the year.
> [Please address questions to Drs. Blakesley or Jackson, on whose
> behalf this message is being posted.]
>
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