Chekhov's Legacy in Russian Culture of the 20th Century and Beyond, Conference, Oxford, 15-16 September 2004

[Philip Bullock]

Dear All

The BASEES Study Group for Literature of the 20th Century and Beyond is
pleased to announce that its conference on 'Chekhov's Legacy in Russian
Culture of the 20th Century and Beyond' will take place at Mansfield College,
Oxford, UK, on 15-16 September. This follows directly on from the Chekhov
conference organised by the Neo-Formalist Circle, details of which have
already been circulated on this list.

Papers include:
David Gillespie (Bath) ‘Chekhov, Trifonov and Mikhalkov’
Vera Zubarev (Pennsylvania) ‘Chekhov’s Dramas and the Film Four Funny Families’
Carol Adlam (Exeter) ‘Anton Chekhov and Lillian Hellman: Form and Ethics’
Leon Burnett (Essex) ‘The English Chekhov’
Kevin Windle (ANU) ‘Three Irish Sisters: Brian Friel’s Version of Chekhov’s
Play for the Irish Stage’
A.Glotov (Ukraine) ‘Chekhov and Somerset Maugham’ (in Russian)
Arnold McMillin (SSEES) ‘Russian Music in and Around Chekhov’
Harai Golomb (Tel Aviv) ‘Heredity, Inheritance, Heritage: Views of Human Re-
generation in Chekhov’s Plays’
Birgit Beumers (Bristol) ‘Chekhov’s “Seagull”, Boris Akunin and Claude
Miller’s “La petite Lili”’
Olga Tabachnikova (Bath) ‘”Mir urodliv i liudi grustny”: O Chekhovskoi etike i
estetike v proizvedeniiakh Sergeia Dovlatova’
Olga Soboleva (LSE) ‘”Pokhozhim byt’ khochetsia tol’ko na Chekhova”: Dovlatov
and Chekhov – The Art of Storytelling’
Kjeld Bjormager (Denmark) ‘20th Century Stagings of “The Three Sisters”’
Sally Dalton-Brown (Trinity College, University of Melbourne) ‘Chekhov’s
Missing Trousers and Katherine Mansfield’s Unclothed Moments’
Margarita Odesskaia (RGU, Moscow) ‘Chekhov and Modern Russian Theatrical
Remakes’

There will also be a guest lecture by Professor Laurence Senelick (Tufts
University, USA): ‘Looking for Chekhov in All the Wrong Places’

Further information and booking forms can be obtained from Philip Bullock
(philip.bullock at wolfson.ox.ac.uk).

Philip Bullock
--
Dr Philip Ross Bullock
New College, Oxford, OX1 3BN, United Kingdom
Tel: 01865 289078  Mobile: 07796 187081  Fax: 01865 279590 (attn P R Bullock)

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