Gogol Conference
Joe Andrew
j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK
Mon Jun 10 15:55:09 UTC 2002
Please find attached the programme and booking form for the forthcoming
Gogol conference.
GOGOL 2002
A CONFERENCE TO MARK 150 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF
NIKOLAI GOGOL
to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 16-18 September, 2002
under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle
Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK
PROGRAMME
Monday 16 September
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Panel 1: Thematic Approaches
Neil Cornwell (Bristol): The Absurd in Gogol
Julian Graffy (UCL/SSEES): Gogol's Clothes
Richard Peace (Bristol): Aspects of Gogolian Logic
Willem Weststeijn (Amsterdam): Gogol and Illness
4.00 Tea
4.15 Panel 2: Gogol and Other Arts
Birgit Beumers (Bristol): Turning and Turning Inside Out: Playful
Explorations of Gogolian Texts on Stage and Screen in the 1990s
Helena Goscilo (Pittsburgh): Syn/crisis in Gardens of Earthly Plights:
Bosching Gogol Arnold Mcmillin (UCL/SSEES): The Petersburg Stories as set
to Music by Russian Composers
5.45 Panel 3: Gogol and Modernism
Justin Doherty (Trinity College Dublin): Gogol and Russian Futurism
Greta Slobin (Santa Cruz): The Battle for the Modernist Gogol in
the 1920s and 1930s
7.00 Dinner
8.00 Gogol Films
Tuesday 17 September
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Panel 4: Theme and Text
Andrzej Dudek (Kraków): Gogol's Vision of Culture
Radosvet Kolarov (Sofia): Self-Parody in Gogol
Jutta Möhrke (Keele): The Sense of An Ending in Gogol
Robert Reid (Keele): Gogol: A Stoic Reading
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Panel 5: Gogol and Other Russian Writers
Leon Burnett (Essex): On First Looking into Zhukovskii's Homer:
Gogol and Cultural Assimilation Lyubov Kiseleva (Tartu): Gogol and
Zhukovskii Michael Pursglove: Grigorovich's Gogolian hybrid:
Kapellmeister Suslikov
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Panel 6: Texts
Robin Aizlewood (UCL/SSEES): The man who was(n't) there: Pirogov
and the representation of nothingness Nina Gourianova (Harvard):
Landscape of Transformation: Metamorphosis in Gogol's Old-World
Landowners Audun Mørch (Oslo): Gogol's Overcoat: Revaluing All Values
Petre Petrov (Pittsburgh): Gogol's Gamblers: Lectoral and Libidinal Penetrations
4.00 Tea
4.30 Collective Analysis of the last four pages of Chapter 8 and the
first six pages of Chapter 9 of Dead Souls led by Michael O'Toole
(Murdoch)
6.30 Reception
7.00 Anniversary Dinner
Wednesday 18 September
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Panel 7: Cultural Questions
Catriona Kelly and Andy Byford (Oxford): Remembering A Great
Russian Writer: The Gogol Jubilees of 1909 and 1952 Harriet Murav
(Davis): Gogol, Mendele, and the Question of Ethnic Literature Joseph
Sherman (Oxford): The Non-reflecting Mirror: Gogol's Influence on Sholem
Aleichem Tatiana Smoliarova (Harvard): Gogol as the Basis of
Formalist Theories 11.00 Coffee
11.30 Panel 8: Gogol and Russian Culture
Eric de Haard (Amsterdam): Gogol's and Tolstoi's Madmen: On the
Dimensions of Intertextuality Henrietta Mondry (Canterbury, NZ): Gogol's
Body, Rozanov's Gaze David Shepherd (Sheffield): Naming and Shaming:
Bakhtin on Gogol and the History of the Grotesque
1.00 Lunch and Close
GOGOL 2002
A CONFERENCE TO MARK 150 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF
NIKOLAI GOGOL
to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 16-18 September, 2002
under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle
Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK
BOOKING FORM
The conference will run from lunch on Monday, 16 September until lunch on
Wednesday, 16 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 Essays in
Poetics', and in any event by 9 August 2002. It would be of great
assistance to us if the full amount could be paid in advance: all prices
are in pounds sterling. If you have received this electronically, it may
be returned in the same way, or please print a copy and send back by post:
cheques will obviously have to be sent by post in any
event.
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13 September Lunch (10.50) . . . . . . .
Tea (1.75) . . . . . . .
Dinner (15.00) . . . . . .
Bedroom : ensuite (42.25) . . . . . .
ordinary (30.25) . . . . . .
twin (per person)
(28.25) . . . . . .
17 September Breakfast (7.75) . . . . . . .
Coffee (1.75) . . . . . . .
Lunch (10.50) . . . . . . .
Tea (1.75) . . . . . . .
Anniversary Dinner
(includes reception & wine) (33.00) . . . . . .
Bedroom : ensuite (42.25) . . . . . .
ordinary (30.25) . . . . . .
twin (per person) (28.25) . . . . . .
15 September Breakfast (7.75) . . . . . . .
Coffee (1.75) . . . . . . .
Lunch (10.50) . . . . . . .
Vegetarian Meals Required . . . . . . . . . . .
Conference Fee (40.00) . . . . . .
(Please tick meals etc. required and please specify if vegetarian or other
special requirements)
NAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SIGNATURE
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ADDRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Please return the completed form with payment to:
Neo-Formalist Circle
SOLCCA (Russian)
Keele University,
Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG,
UK
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Joe Andrew
j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk
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