Platonov Conference

[J.M. Andrew]

Dear Colleague  19 June 2000

We are pleased to enclose the programme and booking form for the next
Neo-Formalist Conference, to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford on 11-12
September.  Please return the booking form as soon as possible, and by
Friday 18 August at the latest.

Please also note that Panel VI is joint with the Twentieth Century
Literature Group the programme of which extends until 4.00 on Wednesday 13
September.  If you are attending both conferences please make sure that you
do not double book for lunch and tea on Tuesday 12 September.


A HUNDRED YEARS OF ANDREI PLATONOV


Monday 11 September

12.30           Lunch

1.30            Opening Session

                Valery Vyugin (St Petersburg): The Poetics of Enigma and
Enigma of Poetics

2.30            Panel I

                Robin Chandler (London): Listening to Platonov
                Olga Meerson  (Georgetown): Platonov's Refamiliarization:
Perils and Potencies of Perceptive Inertia
                Robert Hodel (Hamburg): The Demodalizing of Utterance:
Chekhov, Platonov, Prigov
                Thomas Seifrid (Southern California): Forms of Belatedness
in Platonov's Prose

4.30            Tea

5.00            Panel II

                Angela Livingstone (Essex): Understandable Song: Music in
Chevengur
                Roger Cockrell (Exeter): Images of the Sky in Chevengur
                Marina  Koch (Paris): The Concept of Emptiness in Platonov's
Prose

6.30            Dinner

7.30            Panel III

                Eric Naiman (Berkeley): Happy Moscow: Lexical Heroes and the
Ideological Picaresque
                Clint Walker (Madison): The Bronze Horseman as a Major Lens
for Reading Happy Moscow
                Hallie White (Boston): Happy Moscow and the Unbearable
Present
                Anat Vernitski (Essex): Women Work, Men Muse: Gender Roles
in Platonov's Short Stories





Tuesday 12 September

8.00            Breakfast

9.00            Panel IV

                Thomas Langerak (Amsterdam): City-Planning and Platonov's
Kotlovan
                Dragan Kujundzic (Memphis): Kotlovan and the Idea of
Building
                Hans Guenther (Bielefeld): Platonov and the Utopian Genre

10.30           Coffee

11.00           Panel V

                Nina Malygina (Moscow): Manuscript Variants of the Story O
potukhshei lampe Il'yicha
                Audun Morch (Oslo): Irony and Satire in Platonov and
Dostoevsky: Gorod Gradov and Krokodil
                Natalya Poltavtseva (Moscow): The Pushkinian Text in
Platonov
                Helen Tolstoy (Jerusalem): To be announced

1.00            Lunch

2.00            Panel VI

                Hamid Ismailov (London): Platonov's Dzhan as a Sufi Treatise
                Philip Bullock (Oxford): Platonov and Judaism
                Emma Widdis (Cambridge): Energetika: Platonov's Electrified
Spaces and the Aesthetics of Soviet Montage


3.30               Tea (end of Neo-Formalist Conference)




We look forward to seeing you in Oxford.

Best wishes,




Joe Andrew
Angela Livingstone
Robert Reid








        N E O - F O R M A L I S T   C I R C L E
        Conference at Mansfield College, Oxford
        Monday 11 - Tuesday 12 September 2000

        BOOKING FORM

The conference will run from lunch on 11 September until tea on 12
September.  Please tick whatever facilities you wish and fill in the
sections of name, date, etc., then return the form as soon as possible to
the address below, with payment made out to "Neo-Formalist Circle", and in
any event by 18 August 2000.  All pricings are in pounds sterling. A deposit
of 10 pounds in advance will be sufficient;  it would be of great assistance
to us, however, if the full amount could be paid in advance.  If you have
received this electronically, please print a copy and send back by post.
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11 September    Lunch                                   (10.00) . . . . . .
.

                Tea                                     (0.90) . . . . . . .

                Dinner                                  (15.90)  . . . . . .

                Bedroom : ensuite                       (47.00)  . . . . . .

                         ordinary                       (32.90)  . . . . . .

                        twin (per person)               (30.55)  . . . . . .

12 September    Breakfast                               (7.65) . . . . . . .

                Coffee                                  (0.90) . . . . . . .

                Lunch                                   (10.00) . . . . . .
.

                Tea                                     (0.90) . . . . . . .

                Vegetarian Meals Required               . . . . . . . . . .
.

                Conference Fee                  (25.00)  . . . . . .


(Please tick meals etc. required and please specify if vegetarian or other
special requirements)


NAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .            SIGNATURE .
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(Block capitals)
ADDRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .             DATE . . . .
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Please return the completed form with payment to:
Neo-Formalist Circle, Department of Russian Studies, Keele University,
Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG,  England

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