Platonov Conference

[J.M. Andrew]

        'A HUNDRED YEARS OF ANDREI PLATONOV'

A conference to mark the centenary of the birth of Andrei Platonov to be
held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 11-12 September, 2000 under the auspices
of the Neo-Formalist Circle.

Organisers: Angela Livingstone, Joe Andrew and Robert Reid.

We are pleased to announce this conference.  About twenty papers will be
delivered at the conference, organised by the Neo-Formalist Circle to
celebrate the centenary of the birth of Andrei Platonov in 1899.  The
conference will bring together Platonov specialists from a variety of
countries and the papers proposed include both textually based and
comparative approaches to the writer's work. This two-day conference
promises to be a significant milestone in Platonov studies.

The following are the proposed papers, though there may some adjustment to
the programme in due course.  For further information please contact Angela
Livingstone  <angelal at essex.ac.uk>, Robert Reid <r.e.reid at keele.ac.uk> or
Joe Andrew <j.m.andrew at keele.ac.uk>.  Further details of the finalised
programme, together with booking forms will be available in June.

Philip Bullock (Oxford): Platonov and Judaism
Robert Chandler (London): Listening to Platonov
Roger Cockrell (Exeter): Images of the Sky in Chevengur

Annie Epelboin (Paris): To be confirmed

Hans Guenther (Bielefeld): Platonov and the Utopian Genre
Robert Hodel (Hamburg): The Demodalising of Utterance: Chekhov, Platonov,
Prigov
Hamid Ismailov (London): Platonov's Dzhan as a Sufi Treatise
Marina Koch (Paris): To be confirmed

Thomas Langerak (Amsterdam): City-Planning and Platonov's Kotlovan
Angela Livingstone (Essex): The Dangers of Reading Platonov
Nina Malygina (Moscow): Manuscript Variants of the Story O potukhshei lampe
Il'icha
Olga Meerson (Georgetown): Re-automatisation in Andrei Platonov: A Formalist
Criterion for an Axiology

Audun Mxrch (Oslo): Irony and Satire in Platonov and Dostoevsky: Gorod
Gradov and Krokodil

Eric Naiman (Berkeley): Happy Moscow:  Lexical Heroes and the Ideological
Picaresque

Natalya Poltavtseva (Moscow): The Pushkin Text in Platonov
Thomas Seifrid (South California): Forms of Belatedness in Platonov's Prose

Helen Tolstoy (Jerusalem): To be confirmed

Anat Vernitski (Essex): Women Work, Men Muse: Gender Roles in Platonov's
Short Stories

Valery Vyugin (St Petersburg): The Poetics of Enigma and the Enigma of
Poetics
Hallie White (Boston):   Happy Moscow and the Unbearable Present
Emma Widdis (Cambridge): Energetika: Platonov's Electrified Spaces and the
Aesthetics of Soviet Montage

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