CFP: Chekhov on Page and Stage, December 2010

[Angela Brintlinger]

Announcing: Chekhov on Page and Stage: December 2-4, 2010, Columbus, OH

This Chekhov Sesquicentennial Conference will be held on the campus of Ohio
State University. Program committee members include:

Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University (brintlinger.3 at osu.edu)
Michelle Herman, Ohio State University (mh_mezzo at sbcglobal.net )
Maria Ignatieva, Ohio State University (ignatieva.1 at osu.edu)
Carol Appolonio, Duke University (flath at duke.edu )
Svetlana Evdokimova, Brown University (Svetlana_Evdokimova at brown.edu)
Jerome Katsell, Independent Scholar (jerry3 at roadrunner.com)
Galina Rylkova, University of Florida (grylkova at ufl.edu)
Lucy Parts, McGill University (lyudmila.parts at mcgill.ca)
	
Please contact members of the program committee with ideas for papers and
panels. Proposals should include a 150-word abstract of the paper plus a 2
page CV and are due by September 1, 2009. Details about funding for this
celebratory conference will be forthcoming and are contingent upon
constructing an exciting and varied program.

Plans for the conference so far include a section on “Chekhov, Medicine and
Public Health” (Brintlinger); “Cinematic Stagings of Chekhov” (Ignatieva);
“Writing under the Influence of Chekhov” (Herman); “Bridging the Gulf”
(about how literary and theater scholars can work with each other to unite
the page and stage, Evdokimova); "Reading, Filming and Staging Chekhov's
Life" (Rylkova). The conference also invites papers on the subject of
translation (Apollonio).

The conference will feature film viewings as well as stagings of scenes from
Chekhov, including a reprise of a scene from the OSU Theater Department’s
Spring 2010 production of The Three Sisters. The organizers plan to publish
a collection of selected essays from the conference in Russian and English.
In the spirit of cross-cultural collaboration, they hope also to match up
translators to our American “Chekhovians” for publishing Chekhov-influenced
works in Russian in such journals as Inostrannaia literatura and Chekhoviana.

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