Study Group for Literature of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Conference 2008
Mansfield College, Oxford ::: 17-18 September 2008
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
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Wednesday 17 September
13.00–14.00 Lunch/Registration
14.00–15.15 Session 1: Russian Literature, Now and Then
- Rolf Hellebust (Nottingham): Russian Anti-Literature, from Then to Now
- Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya (New South Wales, Australia): Novelty and Tradition in Contemporary Russian Combinatorial Literature
15.15–16.30 Session 2: History and Contemporary Serbian Literature
- David Norris (Nottingham): Haunted Sites and Uncanny Histories
- Vladislava Ribnikar (Nottingham): Private Lives and National Duty
16.30–16.45 Tea
16.45–18.00 Session 3: Contemporary Russian Literary byt
- Oliver Ready (Wolfson College, Oxford): Aleksei Slapovsky and the Art of Adapting
- Joanne Shelton (Bath): The Publishing Environment in Twenty-First Century Russia
18.00 Business Meeting
19.00 Dinner
Thursday 18 September
08.00–09.00 Breakfast
09.00–10.45 Session 4: National Identity in the New European Literature
- Uilleam Blacker (SSEES/UCL): Spatiality in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
- Lech Keller (Warsaw/Łódź, Poland): The Decline of Stanislav Lem
- Peter Morgan (Western Australia): Ismail Kadare’s Critique of Albanian Socialism
10.45–11.00 Coffee
11.00–1.00 Session 5: National Identity in Contemporary Russian Literature
- Nicolas Dreyer (St Andrews): Homo custodiensis: the Imprisonment Theme in Tuchkov and Sorokin
- Peter Barta (Surrey): ‘Contemporary’ Representation of Black People in Post-Soviet Russian Literature
- Sally Dalton-Brown (Melbourne, Australia): Beyond the Collusive Metaphysics of Nationalism? National Identity Destroyed and Denied in Kurkov, Makanin, Pelevin and Petrushevskaia
13.00 Lunch and End of Conference
Study Group for Literature of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
The Twentieth-Century Study Group meets annually for a two-day conference at Mansfield College, Oxford in September. In 2000, the study group devoted its meeting at Mansfield College to 'exile and emigration'. In 2001 there was a symposium on the Booker Prize in Bristol in July. In 2002, a conference held in Oxford was devoted to Contemporary Women's Writing. The 2003 conference was devoted to the theme of Literature and Nation. In 2004 the conference addressed 'Chekhov's Legacy in Russian Culture of the 20th century and beyond', to mark the centenary of Chekhov's death. In 2006 the meeting was devoted to poetry and in 2007 it chose as theme "The Writer as Critic".
The group is currently organised by Dr Alastair Renfrew of the University of Durham.
Dr Alastair Renfrew
Reader in Russian
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Durham University
Elvet Riverside
Durham DH1 3JT