The Tolstoy Centennial at Columbia
Irina Reyfman
ir2 at COLUMBIA.EDU
Mon Oct 25 20:28:11 UTC 2010
Dear Colleagues,
This is a reminder that the conference to commemorate the Tolstoy Centennial
will take place at Columbia this coming Friday. The final program is posted
below.
Sincerely,
Irina Reyfman
Leo Tolstoy and His English Translations
Symposium
October 29, 2010
Columbia University, Hamilton 717
Co-sponsored by the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History
and Culture of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Harriman Institute,
and the Department of Slavic Languages
10:00 a.m. Introductory remarks: Irina Reyfman,
Bakhmeteff Archive Committee, Chair
10:10 a.m. - 12 a.m. Panel "Boundaries of Translation: Cultural and
Intellectual Dialogue"
Chair: Cathy Popkin (Columbia University)
Presenters:
Liza Knapp (Columbia University), Virginia Woolf on Tolstoy in Translation:
"All forms of life" "stripped of style"
Carol Apollonio (Duke University), Does the Translation Matter?
Inessa Medzhibovskaya (New School), "Tolstoy's On Life as translation
project: some observations about rendering Tolstoy's philosophical style and
terminology
Discussant: Robert Belknap (Columbia University)
2:00 p.m.-4 p.m. Round table "Boundaries of Translation: Cultural and
Intellectual Dialogue"
Participants: Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Catherine Nepomnyashchy,
Michael Scammell, Ronald Meyer
4:30 - Translation competition results announced - Tanya Chebotarev,
Bakhmeteff Curator
5 PM -- Reception at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler library,
6th floor East
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