"Screening the Word"--conference at the University of Surrey

[Catharine Nepomnyashchy]

Dear Peter,

I've been meaning to write to you on a number of counts, including my
interest in the conference below.  I actually might be interested in doing
something on the Sherlock Holmes series, but I'm not far enough along with
it to write an abstract that would be very meaningful.  What do you think?
By the way, I finally found the original of the Pushkin manuscript today.
Apparently we gave away all the copies.  I'm going to try to get it onto
diskette in the next few days and perhaps I can email it to you.  How are
you?  All the best, Cathy

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Peter I. Barta wrote:

> SCREENING THE WORD: VISUAL ADAPTATIONS OF LITERATURE IN RUSSIAN AND SOVIET
> CULTURE
> * SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT *
>
> 28-30 May 2002
>
> This international conference aims to explore themes relating to the
> image-text boundary by examining a broad range of topics centred around: 1)
> Russian, Soviet and Postsoviet screen adaptions of fiction, and 2) general
> issues connected with the relationship between the verbal and the visual in
> Russian culture.
>
>
> Papers might address some of the following themes/categories, although other
> suggestions will also be welcomed:
>
>   a.. The relationship of the screen adaptation to the literary canon in
> Soviet and Postsoviet Russia
>   b.. The influence of cinema and the visual media on Russian literature
>   c.. What film adaptations say about the fate of Russian literary culture
> in the visual era
>   d.. How they reveal the faultlines along which Soviet ideology eventually
> split asunder
>   e.. How they demonstrate the tensions existing between "mass" and "high"
> culture
>   f.. What the ekranizatsiia tells us about the nature of representation itself
>   g.. The limitations and potentials of film, literature and television as
> media of expression
>   h.. Text-to-screen translation as reduction/subversion/dialogue
>   i.. Reactions by painters to literature
> The conference will feature two keynote speakers:
>
> Igor Maslennikov (director of the celebrated Soviet "Sherlock Holmes" and
> other literary adaptations): "Diametral'no protivopolozhnyie podkhody k
> ekranizatsii russkoi klassiki: ot bukvalizma k paradoksal'nomu prochteniu"
>
> Professor Helena Goscilo (eminent US specialist in contemporary Russian
> Culture): "Moving Images and Eye-deologies"
>
> The working languages of the conference will be English and Russian
>
> It will be hosted at the University of Surrey, located in Guildford, which
> is situated amidst beautiful English countryside, 30 minutes away from
> Central London. Contributors will be accommodated on campus
>
> Financial assistance may be available for some contributors.
>
> It is hoped that the conference will result in the publication of an edited
> volume based around the papers given
>
> Brief abstracts should be sent to the conference organisers by June 30, 2001.
> Conference Organisers: Dr Stephen Hutchings (s.hutchings at surrey.ac.uk) and
> Dr Anat Vernitski (a.vernitskaia at surrey.ac.uk)
> Department of Linguistic and International Studies
> University of Surrey
> Guildford
> Surrey GU2 5XH, UK Fax.: +00 44 (0)1483 876201
>
> Up-dated information about the conference can be found on the web at
> http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/LVMG/conference.htm
> Peter I. Barta
> Professor of Russian and Cultural Studies
> Head, Russian Studies
> University of Surrey
> Guildford GU2 5XH
> England
> Tel: (01483) 300800 ext 2822
> e-mail: p.barta at surrey.ac.uk
> fax:  (01483)259527
> http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/Russian/
>
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