Tolstoy in the Twenty-First Century (Symposium Announcement)

[Inessa Medzhibovskaya]

Tolstoy in the Twenty-First Century
International Symposium at the New School (New York, New York)

Dates: October 14-17, 2010
Time: 9:30 am-10:00 pm (doors open at 9 am)
Location: Tishman Auditorium (66 West 12th Street) and Wollman Hall (65 West 11th Street), New York, New York   10011

Eugene Lang College and The New School are pleased to present "Tolstoy in the Twenty-First Century" (October 14-17, 2010). This international symposium will celebrate Tolstoy's life and legacy and commemorate the centenary of his death. It features philosophers, political scientists, literary scholars, writers and journalists who represent diverse fields and approaches to teaching and research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The symposium will discuss new perspectives on Tolstoy for our time and beyond: Tolstoy the politically engaged artist and intellectual in quest of universal happiness. The traditions of academic inquiry at The New School echo Tolstoy's own idealism and his search for social justice. A hundred years after Tolstoy's death we are still far from grasping the meaning of his role as a literary watershed between a Realist worldview and Modernism. We are further still from satisfactorily exploring the extensive impact of his aesthetic, religious, !
 educational, philosophical, and political thinking. The contributors will explore Tolstoy's legacy under the traditional rubrics (literary art, aesthetics, history of ideas), along more radical lines (the politics of civic disobedience), and along lines that are totally unexpected-such as Tolstoy and "sustainable living." Our hope is to open up the greatness of this indispensable Russian writer and thinker to renewed life in the twenty-first century.

Invited speakers: Galina Alexeeva, Banu Bargu, Nicholas Birns, Andrei Bitov, Margaret Boe Birns, A.D.P. (Tony) Briggs, Jeff Brooks, Julie Buckler, Ellen Chances, Alice Crary, Michael Denner, Caryl Emerson, Galina Galagan, Anna Grodetskaya, Alexander Gulin, Stephen Halliwell, Agnes Heller, Maria Koz'mina, Paul Kottman, Anne Lounsbery, Jeff Gordon Love, Rick McPeak, Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Simon Morrison, Gary Saul Morson, Dan Moulin, Dmitri Nikulin, Donna Tussing Orwin, Vladimir Paperni, Dominic Pettman, Vitaly Remizov, Lina Steiner, Vladimir Tolstoy, Zisan Ugurlu, Ilya Vinitsky, Val Vinokur, Andrew Baruch Wachtel, McKenzie Wark, Thomas Werner, Sara Winter, Robert Whittaker, Galina Zlobina as well as Eugene Lang Literary Studies faculty and students.

Please visit our website www.newschool.edu/tolstoy-conference for details 

Admission is free, but registration required by 10/12/10 to guarantee seating: 
elcdean at newschool.edu or Tolstoy21stCentury at newschool.edu 

Please forward all other inquiries to Inessa Medzhibovskaya medzhibi at newschool.edu 
Sponsored by Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts, with additional funding from the Provost's Office of the New School.

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