Tolstoy in Tomsk

[Donna Orwin]

Dear Colleagues,

 

I have been asked to post the attached announcement of a Tolstoy conference
in Tomsk to be held next September.  The conference is one of a series
celebrating the 180th anniversary of Tolstoy's birth (2008) and the 100th
anniversary of his death (2010).  It is an opportunity to meet with Russian
Tolstoy scholars and to visit a wonderful Siberian city.

 

Best to all,

 

Donna Orwin 

 

 

 

Tomsk State University

 

The State Memorial and Natural Preserve "Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy
"Yasnaya Polyana" 

 

The Institute of World Literature named after A. Gorky, Russian Academy of
Sciences 

 

The Academic Library of the Tomsk State University

 

Invite you to participate in an International Academic Conference

 

Leo Tolstoy's Heritage in the Context of Contemporary Studies in the
Humanities

 

The Conference will be held at Tomsk State University (Tomsk)

on September 10-12, 2009

 

The following are the reasons for having the first international academic
conference in Tomsk.

  

- The role of TSU Academic Library in the preservation of the personal
library of Leo Tolstoy and artifacts from the Yasnaya Polyana Museum during
the Great Patriotic War (the Second World War of 1941-1945). 

 

- The importance of the Tomsk philological school as a leading center of
Russian studies of the humanities.

In 1941 all moveable artifacts from Tolstoy's House were brought to Tomsk
from Yasnaya Polyana and were kept at the TSU Academic Library until 1945.
The Academic Library of the Tomsk State University serves as a depository
for the personal libraries of many distinguished figures of Russian culture,
including V. Zhukovsky, A. Nikitenko, and G. Stroganov.

 

 "The Heritage of Leo Tolstoy in the Context of Contemporary Humanitarian
Studies" is an important part of a series of  international academic
conferences dedicated to Leo Tolstoy's 180 anniversary (2008) and centenary
of his death (2010). 

 

During the conference the following topics will be addressed:

- Leo Tolstoy in Russian and World Literature: 

- Tolstoy's Philosophy and Aesthetics 

- Formal poetic characteristics of Tolstoy's Works

- Leo Tolstoy as a Reader

- Leo Tolstoy and Siberia

 

Working languages at the conference will be Russian, English, German, and
French. 

 

Application deadline - June 1, 2009. Materials should be sent to:
irbor2004 at mail.ru  iro2 at mail.tsu.ru.   Information should include - name and
surname; work place, current position and academic status; title of the
paper; address and phone. Advanced graduate students are invited to
participate.  

 

The Conference Proceedings will be published in 2010. 

 

 E-version of the paper is required (up to 0,5 quire, Microsoft Word, space
from every quarter-2 cm., Times New Roman, 14 font size, interval 1,5,
automatic word division)

 

The conference registration fee is 500 rubles.

 

Foreign participants may arrive not earlier than 9 September and departure
should be planned for not later than 13 September. Participants must pay
their own travel and accommodation expenses. Free lunch for participants
will be provided. Cultural program will include a Tomsk sightseeing tour
(including the Town History Museum and Siberian Botanical Garden), and a
visit to the Museum of Rare Books of the TSU Academic Library.

 

All questions should be sent to: irbor2004 at mail.ru, iro2 at mail.tsu.ru

 

Chairman of the Organizing Committee - Professor Emma Zhilyakova  

 

Secretary of the Organizing Committee - Irina Gnyusova - tel\fax: +7 (3822)
529-604;

iro2 at mail.tsu.ru

Tomsk State University

Informational Unite 

634050 Tomsk, of. 205, 36 Lenin Ave. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

________________________________

Donna Tussing Orwin, Professor

Department of Slavic Languages and Literature

University of Toronto

President, Tolstoy Society

Alumni Hall 415

121 St. Joseph St.

tel 416-926-1300, ext. 3316

fax 416-926-2076

 

 

 


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