VLADIMIR NABOKOV INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE

CAMBRIDGE, 6-10 JULY 1999

NABOKOV AT THE CROSSROADS - FULL PROGRAMME

TUESDAY 6 JULY

• Opening words, Don Barton Johnson, University of California at Santa Barbara
• Galya Diment, University of Washington, "Cambridge, Brooke and Goal Keeping: Young Nabokov in England"
• Charles Nicol, Indiana State University, "The Duel at Cambridge: "Glory" as a Work of Anglo-Russian Literature"
• Grigorii Utgof, University of Tallinn, ""Podvig" (Glory) and "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight": a Comparative Reading"

• Don Barton Johnson, University of California at Santa Barbara, "Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's "Otherworld""
• Catriona Kelly, New College, Oxford, ""Special privacy is now to me absolutely necessary": Nabokov, snobizm, and the representation of the self"

WEDNESDAY 7 JULY

• Maria Malikova, St Petersburg, "Nabokov and Pushkin. Marginalia. Further Thoughts on the Theme of "Nabokov's Pushkin""
• Dale Peterson, Amherst College, "White (K)nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories"
• Natalia Pervukhina, University of Tennessee, "Chekhov and Nabokov in Polemic with their Time"
• Galina Rylkova, The Ohio State University, ""Beyond the Limits of a Vulgar Fate": On Kuzminian Subtext in Nabokov's "The Eye" and "Pale Fire""

• Vladimir Alexandrov, Yale University, "Nabokov and Tolstoy: Notes on Allusions and Parallels"
• Michael Meylakh, University of the Antilles and Guyana, "(Meta)poesis and Intertextuality: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's "Sem´ stikhotvorenii" (Seven Poems)"
• Julian Connolly, University of Virginia, "The Flight of Daedalus and Icarus in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov"

• Leona Toker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity: "Speak, Memory" and "The Creative Mind""
• Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson College, ""Splendid Insincerity" as "Utmost Truthfulness": Nabokov and the Claims of the Real"
• Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee, "Nabokov, Mach, and Monism at the End of the Century"

• Olga Skonechnaia, Gorky Institute of World Literature (IMLI), Moscow "The Wandering Jew as Metaphor of Memory in Nabokov's Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s"
• Gene Barabtarlo, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Grinding Personal Matter (on the Movement of Nabokov's Themes)"
• Boris Averin, St Petersburg, "The Poetics of Memory in Nabokov's Prose"

• "DEAR BUNNY, DEAR VOLODYA". Dramatic dialogue adapted from the letters of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov by Terry Quinn (performed by Terry Quinn and Dmitri Nabokov)
  Location: The Peterhouse Theatre (Auditorium)
  Wine will be served beforehand.

THURSDAY 8 JULY

• Charles Lock, University of Copenhagen, "Tropes of Transparency"
• Rachel Trousdale, Yale University, ""Books that Others Write": Proust, Nabokov, and James Merrill"
• Michael Wood, Princeton University, "Time and Again: Proust after Nabokov"

• Ellen Pifer, University of Delaware, ""Did She have a Precursor?": Lolita and Wharton's "The Children""
• Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University, "Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade"
• Brian Boyd, University of Auckland, ""Then ... Again": Shades and Reflections of Eliot in "Pale Fire""

• Neil Cornwell, Bristol University, "Governesses, Paintings and "Publishing Scoundrels": Nabokov and Henry James"
• Lara Delage-Toriel, Newnham College, Cambridge, "Fussy Aphrodite or the Sexual Crux in Nabokov's Last Novels"
• John Burt Foster, George Mason University, "Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats"

• Jenefer Coates, Middlesex University, "Nabokov's Editors"
• Paul Benedict Grant, Wolfson College, Cambridge, ""The Poet Kept Smiling": Gallows Humour or Nabokov's Last Laughs"
• John Quin, University of Sussex, "How Did They Ever Make a Painting of "Lolita"?"

FRIDAY 9 JULY

• Maurice Couturier, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, "Writing and Erasure, or the Other Text in Nabokov's Novels"
• David Bellos, Princeton University, "Nabokovian Models and Materials in the Writing of Georges Perec"
• Dieter Zimmer, Hamburg, "Mimicry in Nature and Nabokov's Art"

• Stacy Schiff, New York, "Our Man in Great Britain: London. Spring 1939"
• Zinovy Zinik, London, "Double Exile: An Illusion of Rejection"
• Jane Grayson, SSEES, University of London, concluding remarks

AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT TRINITY COLLEGE

SATURDAY 10 JULY

Enquiries:
Ben Chatterley, Russian Departmental Administrator
email: b.chatterley@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
tel. 0171 862 8586
fax. 0171 862 8643
SSEES
University of London