XIX Colloquium of the British-French Association for the Study of Russian Culture, 22-23 October
XIX Colloquium of the British-French Association for the Study of Russian Culture (in collaboration with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London)
Programme
Friday 22 October
15.15 Tea
15.45 Introduction
16.00 Russia and Napoleon
Marie-Pierre Rey (Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne): ‘Fighting Napoleon with Ideas: Alexander I’s Vision of Europe’
16.30 Gogol
Andreas Schoenle (Queen Mary, London): ‘Gogol’s Poetics of Ruins and His Response to de Stael’s Corinne’
Marc Weinstein: ‘Gogol, Melville: une histologie de l’écriture?’
17.20 Tolstoi
Derek Offord (University of Bristol): ‘Francophonie in Tolstoy’s War and Peace’
Boris Czerny (University of Caen): ‘Zweig: Erasme: Tolstoï’
18.30 To local restaurant for dinner
Saturday 23 October
9.15 Painting, music and literature in the early 20th century
Silvia Castellana: ‘A Contrastive Analysis of Art nouveau in France and the UK vs Russia’
Marina Lupishko (independent scholar): ‘Daniil Kharms’ Analysis of Chopin’s op. 17, no. 4: Reflections on the Formal Structures in Music and Prose’
10.15 Other perspectives
Irina Bill (Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail): ‘Memsahibs in Russian Borderlands: A Pleasurable Instruction or a Colonial Gaze?’
Vladimir Goudakov: ‘Littoral française, Grande Bretagne et la Russie’
11.15 Coffee
continued
11.45 The Early Soviet period
Galina Subbotina (Institut national des Langues et Civilisation Orientales de Paris): ‘Descriptions des relations amoureuses comme forme d’analyse de processus historiques globaux dans l’oeuvre d’Ivan Bounine’
Peter Barta (University of Surrey): ‘Americans in the Red Mecca in the 1930s’
12.45 Lunch
14.15 Business meeting
14.45 Russian and British perceptions of each other
Yulia Ten (Southern Federal University, Rostov-na-Donu): ‘Symbols of the United Kingdom in Russian Culture’
Samantha Sherry (University of Edinburgh): ‘Britain as Imaginary Elsewhere: Constructing the Canon of Foreign Literature in the Soviet Union’
16.15 Concluding remarks and end of colloquium
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Le laboratoire « Lettres, Langages et Arts » de l’Université de Toulouse 2 Le Mirail accueillera les 8 et 9 avril le XXe colloque de l’Association franco-britannique pour l'étude de la culture russe.
Les communications porteront sur le voyage ou l'exil comme moyen de mettre en perspective un savoir livresque avec une réalité vécue. C'est donc l'occasion pour le voyageur ou l'exilé de réévaluer sa vision du pays visité, mais aussi son appréhension de son propre pays. Le décalage constaté entre un avant et un après, aggravé par l'impossibilité du retour de l'exil, sera le sujet des communications sollicitées.
Le titre de votre communication et un bref résumé devront m'être envoyés avant le ler janvier 2011. Répondre à: Danièle Beaune-Gray
CALL FOR PAPERS
The British-French Association for the Study of Russian Culture will hold its next conference at the University of Toulouse 2 Le Mirail, department «Lettres Langages et Arts», on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 April 2011.
This is a call for papers dealing with the questions and problems of alienation which confront travellers, immigrants and emigrants. More specifically, we would like to invite papers dealing with the impact on the mind and habits of a traveller or exile when confronted with the realities of life in a foreign country and culture. These realities might include a better understanding or an altered perception of the native country and/or new opinions and experiences in the new. In either case, it would be useful to underscore the differences between expectations and actual experiences.
Working titles and a brief summary should be sent to me via e-mail by 1 January 1 2011 to Danièle Beaune Gray
ARCHIVE
Spring conference of the British-French Association for the Study of Russian Culture at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. 9-10 April 2010
The theme for the conference is the representation of the East in Russian culture, in the broadest sense of the word. Although Russia itself encompasses both ‘the East’ and ‘the West’, it nevertheless looks to the Orient as ‘the Other’, depicting its Asian half as its alter ego. Russia’s relationship with the East is a recurrent theme in scholarship. Indeed, a number of recent conferences and publications have been devoted to Russian orientalism. While Western academics focus on Russia’s Asian identity and its so-called oriental wisdom, it is nevertheless important to remember that Russia has always constructed its own sense of the ‘East’ in relation to its West. With this in mind, we would welcome papers which examine the complex, multi-faceted and multi-dimensional relationship between Russia’s ‘self’ and its ‘other’. Possible subjects include aspects of everyday life (chinoiseries, African servants [арапы], jazz), political theory (the Soviets in Africa, Indochina or Central Asia, reproducing French or British colonialist behaviour while at the same time denouncing it), international politics, or examples of influence in art, music, communication or commerce. Perhaps there have been individuals in Russia who have sought to represent themselves as the exotic, African or Asian Other, in the manner of René Caillié, Ferdinand Duranton or Lawrence of Arabia. Our understanding of the ‘East’ is not geographic, since we are interested in the ways in which this concept is represented in the collective Russian psyche and in its culture. It may even be found in the West, or indeed in Africa, in the Islamic or Jewish worlds, or in the shape of the exotic, non-European Other. We encourage proposals concerning Asian Russia itself, the relationship between the imperial centre and the periphery, and the problem of identity in politics and culture. We would also be very interested to receive proposals for papers examining the way in which the imperial past has been re-interpreted in different national traditions, as well as interventions highlighting the plurality of ‘orientalisms’ in Russian culture.
The mission of the British-French Association for the Study of Russian
Culture is to encourage scholarly dialogue between English, French and
Russian-speaking colleagues working in the fields of Slavic Studies,
comparative literature, and the humanities in general. The Association
is holding its next conference at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris
IV) on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 April 2010.
The programme can be downloaded here.
Anna Pondopoulo, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Graham Roberts, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense