Chekhov Conference

[Joe Andrew]

Dear SEELANGers

I am pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Chekhov.  
Dates and speakers as listed below.

The Neo-Formalists’ 2004 Conference ‘One Hundred Years of Chekhov’ will be 
held at Mansfield College, Oxford, from 13-15 September 2004. Below is a 
list of speakers who have now confirmed their paper titles. 

Further details and booking forms will be made available in June/July. 
Please address any queries to the organisers – Robert Reid and Joe Andrew.

Joe Andrew (Keele), ‘"A Room of One’s Own": Narrative, Gender and Space in 
The Fiancée, in Relation to The Boarding School Girl

Carol Adlam (Exeter), ‘Anton Chekhov and Lillian Hellman: Form and Ethics’

Tatiana Alenkina (Moscow), ‘Peculiarities of the Reception of The Seagull 
in the English-Speaking World’ 

Joost van Baak (Groningen), ‘Chekhov’s Fictional Mansions: A Narrative 
Perspective’ 

Rosamund Bartlett (Durham), ‘Dots, Commas, Colons: the Point of Chekhov's 
Punctuation’.

Birgit Beumers (Bristol), ‘The Chopping of the Cherry Orchard: 
Stanislavsky or Chekhov?’

Kjeld Bjornager (Denmark), "Uncle Vanya: The Masculine Triangle"

Leon Burnett (Essex), ‘The English Chekhov’

Eric de Haard (Amsterdam), ‘Chekhov’s Numbers Game: The Flying Islands as 
Pastiche of Jules Verne’

Ros Dixon (Galway), ‘"Ne goni menia!": Anatolii Efros’s Production of 
Three Sisters, 1967’

Justin Doherty (Dublin), ‘Chekhov’s Representation of Nature in His Later 
Stories’

Andrzej Dudek (Krakow), ‘The Motif of Insanity in Chekhov’s Works: 
Literary Functions and Anthropological Connotations’

Richard Freeborn, ‘Residency and Absurdity in Chekhov’s The Seagull’

Harai Golomb (Tel-Aviv),‘The Whole at the Expense of Its Parts: Chekhov as 
Structuralists’ Paradise’

Jane Gary Harris (Pittsburg), ‘Image Criticism Revisited: Chekhov’s 
Reception in the Early 20th Century Russian Women’s Periodical Press’

Ulrike Lentz (Surrey), ‘Typification of Western Europeans: Chekhov’s 
Foreign Governesses and Tutors’

Henrietta Mondry (Canterbury, NZ), "Peasant Women’s Sexualities in Chekhov 
and Gleb Uspensky"

Richard Peace, ‘From Titles to Endings: Rothchild’s Violin’

Michael Pursglove, ‘Grigorovich’s Migrants: A Source for Chekhov’s 
Steppe?’

Robert Reid (Keele),  ‘“Kakie zhe tut nasmeshki?” The Death of a Civil 
Servant: More or Less a Parody’ 

Joseph Sherman (Oxford), ‘Chekhov and the Jews’

Olga Sobolev (London), ‘Chekhov’s Plays on the Russian Screen’

Olga Tabachnikova (Bath), ‘Chekhov through the Eyes of Lev Shestov: 
Justice or Distortion? Continuing the Polemics’

Willem Weststeijn (Amsterdam), "The Description of Character in Chekhov’s 
Stories"

Claire Whitehead (St Andrews), ‘Playing at Detectives: Parody in Chekhov’s 
Shvedskaia spichka’

Kevin Windle (ANU), ‘Three Irish Sisters: Brian Friel’s Version of 
Chekhov's Play for the Irish Stage’

Please contact me for further details.

Joe  

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Joe Andrew
j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk

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