Brodsky Symposium 10/13-14 at University of Oregon
Katya Hokanson
hokanson at UOREGON.EDU
Wed Sep 27 02:46:58 UTC 2006
On Friday and Saturday, October 13 and 14, the Oregon Brodsky
Symposium will be held on the University of Oregon campus. The
symposium is dedicated to the life and works of the important Russian-
American poet, Joseph Brodsky, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1987 and Poet Laureate of the United States from 1991
to 1992. This is a particularly appropriate time for us here at
Oregon to reflect on the role that Brodsky played in Russian and
American letters, since this year marks the tenth anniversary of the
poet's death, as well as the thirtieth anniversary of his extended
visit to the University of Oregon. This event will bring together
scholars from across the United States and will demonstrate the range
of exciting new approaches to Brodsky and to contemporary poetry. The
schedule for the symposium, which is free and open to the public, is
as follows:
OREGON BRODSKY SYMPOSIUM, Friday & Saturday October 13-14
Day One: Friday October 13
Browsing Room, Knight Library
10:00 a. m. Andrew Reynolds, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Last Creative Act: Brodsky, Mandelstam and the Death of the
Poet"
11:00 a. m. Marat Grinberg, Reed College
"The Midrash from Joseph: Brodsky and the Question of Jewish Poetics"
2:00 p. m. Nila Friedberg, Portland State University
"Rule-makers and Rule-breakers: Brodsky's and Slutsky's Metrical
Experiments"
3:00 p.m. Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University
"Questions of Travel: Brodsky and Sedakova"
4:00 p.m. Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University
"Brodsky, Milosz and the Mystery of the Missing Second World"
Reception follows, Knight Browsing Room
Day Two: Saturday, October 14
185 Lillis Hall
10:00 a.m. James L. Rice, University of Oregon
Discussion: "Some Brodsky Letters of Historic Value"
This event is made possible by the generous support of the
University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences, the Russian and
East European Studies Center, the Comparative Literature Program, the
Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, the Department of
English, and the Creative Writing Program.
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