Upcoming Conference “Platonov Re visited. Past and Present Views on the Land of the Philosophers”

[Ben Dhooge]

Upcoming Conference “Platonov Revisited. Past and Present Views on the Land of the Philosophers”

 

The Department of Slavonic and East European Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) would like to invite you to the international conference “Platonov Revisited. Past and Present Views on the Land of the Philosophers”, from Thursday, May 26 until Saturday, May 28, 2011.

 

The aim of the conference is to reflect on the changes in the perception of Andrei Platonov and his works over the last twenty-thirty years in Russia and abroad; on the changes in the readers’ reception and the scholarly study of Platonov’s oeuvre.

 

Keynote speakers: 

- Philip Bullock (University of Oxford) – “Platonov and Theories of Modernism”

- Hans Günther (Universität Bielefeld) – “Временное и вневременное у Платонова”

- Natal’ya V. Kornienko (Institute for World Literature) – “Восприятие военных рассказов Платонова в историческом перспективе”

- Thomas Seifrid (University of Southern California) – “Platonov and Dissidence”

- Yevgeny A. Yablokov (Moscow) – “Читая школьные учебники, или Андрей Платонов как “прочий” русской литературы”

 

The Department of Slavonic and East European Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) would also like to invite you to a seminar on translating Platonov “Amidst Smoke and Different Questions”, which will be held on Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

 

For more details and registration:

 <http://www.slavistiek.ugent.be/platonov> http://www.slavistiek.ugent.be/platonov

 <http://www.slavistiek.ugent.be/TranslatingPlatonov> http://www.slavistiek.ugent.be/TranslatingPlatonov

 

Please forward this message to your colleagues and graduate students who may be interested in attending.

 

Sincerely,

Thomas Langerak

Ben Dhooge

Department of Slavonic and East European Studies

Ghent University

Rozier 44

9000 Gent

Belgium