FW: Call for Papers_Chekhov

[Jenny Carr]

Forwarded on behalf of Dmytro Drozdovskyi, Vsevit.

 

Jenny Carr

Scotland-Russia Forum

 

 

From: vsesvit journal [mailto:vsesvit.journal at gmail.com] 
Sent: 12 May 2010 17:39
To: srfnews at scotlandrussiaforum.org
Subject: Call for Papers_Chekhov

 

 

Dear colleagues!

 

Annually on the 23-28 of September 2010 in Kyiv (Ukraine) takes place the
International Theatrical Women Festival "Maria" of monodramas in memoriam of
the great Ukrainian actress Marija Zankovetska. The Festival is held with
the support of the Ministry of culture and tourism of Ukraine, National
Academic Drama Theatre of Ivan Franko, the National University of
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the international foundation "International Institute
of the Theatre", the Ukrainian organization of "Prosvita" of Taras
Shevchenko, and the foundation "Our home is Ukraine". Every year the
festival is dedicated to the famous date of the Ukrainian or world culture.

In 2010 the Festival is dedicated to the anniversary of Anton Chekhov, the
great Russian writer and dramatist of the XIX century. "Man has been endowed
with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been
given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests
keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's
ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day," Anton Chekhov wrote
(from Uncle Vanya, 1897). "Today Chekhov's fame rests primarily on his
plays. He used ordinary conversations, pauses, noncommunication,
nonhappening, incomplete thoughts, to reveal the truth behind trivial words
and daily life. There is always a division between the outer appearance and
the inner currents of thoughts and emotions. His characters belong often to
the provincial middle class, petty aristocracy, or landowners of
prerevolutionary Russia. They contemplate their unsatisfactory lives,
immersed in nostalgia, unable to make decisions and help themselves when a
crisis breaks out." (Petri Liukkonen).

In addition, during the conference with the help of the Institute of
literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine will be organized
the International conference devoted to Anton Chekhov and the impact he has
made on the literature of Eastern Europe and all over the world. The
Conference committee would like to invite you to attend this conference in
September 2010 (Ukraine, Kyiv).

 

The essential topics of the Conference:

.         Anton Chekhov and world literature;

.         Anton Chekhov and world art;

.         Anton Chekhov: comparative issues;

.         Anton Chekhov and imperial/post-imperial (post-colonial) identity;


.         European aspects of A. Chekhov's writings;

.         Anton Chekhov and translations of his works in the world; 

.         Anton Chekhov and a two-faced language (special features of Anton
Chekhov's language);

.         Anton Chekhov' writings and archetypes; 

.         New interpretations of A. Chekhov's writings;

.         Anton Chekhov in the paradigm of new historicism;

.         Anton Chekhov and madness;

.         Anton Chekhov and carnival theory.

 

Deadline for submitting papers:  1st of July 2010 (all the papers will be
translated into Ukrainian and published in both languages in the Conference
Book).

 

Please send abstracts (around 300 words) to Dmytro Drozdovskyi

before July 1st 2010 at the following address: drosdovscky at rambler.ru

The conference languages will be Ukrainian and English.

A publication of the proceedings from the conference is planned after
approval of the articles by the

editorial committee.

 

 

Sincerely yours,

Larysa Kadyrova (President of the Festival and Conference Committee, head of
the Art council of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)

Dmytro Drozdovskyi (vice-head of the Conference organizing committee)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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