AAASS - Replacement Speaker for Scientists in Literature Panel

[Muireann Maguire]

Dear Seelangers,

With apologies for the ridiculously short notice:

Our AAASS panel 'Scientists, Engineers, Inventors, and the Construction of
Human Nature in Soviet Literature' (2-27), listed on the provisional
schedule for the slot between 3pm and 4.45 on Thursday 18 Nov, is short a
speaker as of this morning due to a last-minute cancellation. I would be
happy to consider a replacement paper on a subject linked to our theme. A
case study of 'how scientists reinvented themselves as writers' would be
particularly welcome. Please see below for an outline of our panel topic and
individual papers. All offers should be sent to me at
muireann.maguire at googlemail.com

This panel aims to explore the mutual influence between science and
literature in twentieth-century Russia by examining modes of imaginative
exchange between writers and scientists at different periods of the Soviet
era. The papers analyse, respectively, individual examples of how writers
interpreted real-life scientists (Andrei Bitov’s study of Viktor Dol’nik),
how scientists reinvented themselves as writers (Fedor Il’in, aka Theo Eli),
and how writers refined the cliché of the engineer-inventor for Soviet
audiences (Alexei Tolstoy’s science-fiction novels and their cinematic
adaptations).
Chair: D. Nemec Ignashev (Carleton College, Minnesota)
Discussant: Matthias Schwartz (Freier Universitat, Berlin)
Paper titles:
Yvonne Howell (University of Richmond, Virginia): “Viktor Dol’nik and the
Invention of Evolutionary Psychology in Bitov’s ‘Birds, or New Knowledge
About Man’”
Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto): “The Valley of New Life: A
Scientist As A Writer (Fedor Il'in)” CANCELLED
Muireann Maguire (Wadham College, Oxford): “The Engineer’s Hoof:
Scientist-Inventors in A. N. Tolstoy’s Fiction”

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