Fifth Moffat Russian Conference 2016
During the conference there will be an exhibition on display panels outside Moffat Town Hall In the Firmament of Russian Poetry Vasily Zhukovsky (1783- 1852) Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873) Afanasy Fet (1820- 1892) Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932) Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) Nikolay Gumilyev (1886–1921) MarinaTsvetaeva (1892–1941) Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) Iosif (Joseph) Brodsky (1940-1996) Posters based on works by the Moscow artist Ludmila Semyatitskaya. (Torn paper technique) Curator – Tatiana Feoktistova FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER15.30–17.00 Poetry analysis workshops19.00–22.00 Events at the Old Well Theatre, Moffat. 19.00–20.00 Performance of Grand Duke Nick's Night Out. A new play by Peter Roberts. Staged by Upper Annandale Dramatic Society (UADS) based at the Old Well Theatre, Moffat. 20.00–20.30 Interval. Meeting with members of the cast. 20.30–22.30 Screening of film Keep My Words Forever: In Memory of Osip Mandelstam Written and Directed by Roma Liberov. Introduced by Roma Liberov. In Russian with English subtitles. Runtime 1h 25m. Discussion with Roma Liberov. SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER09.30–10.30 Conference Opening - Session 1Andrei Pritsepov: Consul General of the Russian Federation in Scotland Vadim Duda: Director General, State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow Evgeny Reznichenko: Executive Director, Institute of Translation, Moscow Professor Richard Demarco: Chairman, Moffat Book Events The Lord Johnstone: Patron, Moffat Russian Conferences Dmitri Bak: Director, State Museum of Language, Moscow. A minute’s silence for Ekaterina Genieva and Marilyn Elliott 10.30–11.00 Coffee Break11.00–12.00 Opening of Mandelstam exhibition at the Moffat House Hotel The Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, presents: Mandelstam exhibition 'Those who live for eternity are rare...' Pen and ink line drawings by Elena Shipitsova. Curator – Tatiana Feoktistova. 12.00–13.00 Barber’s hands: The writer and power: yesterday, today and tomorrow - Session 2Pavel Nerler: Outcast or 'nomenclature' poet?: The fate of Mandelstam Dmitri Bak: Traits of Mandelstam’s poetry in the early lyrics of Arseny Tarkovsky: poems of the 1920s 13.00–14.00 Lunch14.00–15.00 Scottish poets and 'the powers that be' - Session 3Alan Riach: Hugh MacDiarmid Calum Rodger: Ian Hamilton Finlay 15.00–15.45 Fear and the Muse Kept Watch - Session 4Andy McSmith: The Russian Masters—from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein—under Stalin15.45–16.15 Tea Break16.15–17.45 'I had never heard of Ossian’s epic tales': Encounters with the British world - Session 5Janet Treloar: Portraits of Anna AkhmatovaHenry Hardy: The Guest from the Future: artistic treatments of the meetings between Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin. Pavel Nerler: Under the patronage of Isaiah Berlin and Joseph Brodsky (Osip Mandelstam conference in London, June 1991). 20.00 CONFERENCE DINNERThe evening's entertainment will be provided by accordionist Paul Chamberlain and will feature music from both Russia and Scotland. SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER09.30–11.00 Safe Conducts: Poetic Pathways - Session 7Fiona Björling: The Language of Inspiration. A reading of Boris Pasternak's Охранная Грамота (A Safe Conduct), 2.7.Alexandra Smith: Who Owns Pushkin?: Tsvetaeva's cycle 'Poems to Pushkin' as a Critique of the Public Consumption of Private Life. Michael Basker: Gumilyev (topic to be defined) 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break11.30–12.30 A Yearning for World Culture: The context of Russian and European Poetry and Art - session 8Oleg Lekmanov: Osip Mandelstam’s errors and 'errors'.Maxim Amelin: 'I drink to. . .'. Comments to four amphibrachic toasts 'Friends' by Pyotr Viazemsky [<1862>], 'I drink to the wartime asters. . .' by Osip Mandelstam (1931), 'Toast' by Nikolai Tikhonov (1939), 'Response to Mandelstam' by Georgi Shengeli (1948).. 12.30–13.30 Lunch Break13.30–15.30 Don’t Tempt Yourself with Foreign Tongue - Session 9Pavel Nerler: Mandelstam global: Mandelstam’s poetry translated into foreign languagesAndrew Reynolds: Analysis of a poem, or poems, by Mandelstam, showing how various translations over the years might reflect – or fail to reflect – changes in the reception of Mandelstam both in the West and in Russia. Michael Basker: Gumilyev’s poems in English Peter France: Russian poetry in English (topic to be defined) Grigory Cheredov: Poets of the Silver Age translated into European languages. 15.30–16.00 Tea Break16.00–17.30 The Grand Duke Nicholas - Session 10Irina Marisina:
'Honoured visitor of the British Museum': From the history of the Grand
Duke Nicholas’ travels in England and Scotland, 1816–1817. Maxim Amelin: Anna Bunina, the first Russian poet to visit Britain, 1815–1817 (assistance from Nicholas – a letter to Sir Walter Scott – sermons by Hugh Blair) Oleg Lekmanov: Russia under Nicholas I in the early poems of Osip Mandelstam. 17.30–18.00 Valedictory19.30–20.30 Recital by Kirstin Sharpin (soprano) and Peter Cowdrey (piano).Settings by Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Cowdrey of poems by Akhmatova, Gumilyev, Mandelstam, Pasternak
and Tsvetaeva. At the Old Well Theatre, Moffat.If you have any questions about packages or booking please contact alan.thomson25@gmail.com ACCOMMODATION Moffat offers accommodation of all types; delegates are urged to contact providers directly via http://www.visitmoffat.co.uk/accommodation-directory | Conference Packages Full Conference package £85 The entire Friday to Sunday programme BUY NOW Sat Package £60 Sessions 1,2,3,4,5,6 and dinner BUY NOW Sat Afternoon £15 Sessions 3,4,5 and 6 BUY NOW Conference Dinner £35 Includes musical entertainment BUY NOW Sun Package £40 Sessions 7,8,9 and 10 BUY NOW Sun Afternoon and Concert Package £25 Sessions 9, 10 and Valedictory plus evening concert BUY NOW SPEAKERSDr Pavel Nerler Mandelstam scholar and specialist in the study of forced migrations. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Literary critic and philologist. Director, State Museum of Literature, Moscow Professor Oleg Lekmanov Laboratory of Cross-Cultural History of Literature, National Research University, Moscow Maxim Amelin Poet, essayist, translator, publisher Winner of the 2013 Alexander Solzhenitsyn award.
Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts, Russian Academy of Arts, St Petersburg Professor Alan Riach Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow Dr Calum Rodger Author of PhD thesis on the subject of Ian Hamilton Finlay Professor Andrew Reynolds Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin Professor Andrew Kahn Professor of Russian Literature and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford Dr Henry Hardy Editor of the works of Sir Isaiah Berlin. Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford Dr Alexandra Smith Reader in Russian, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh Professor Fiona Björling Specialist in Russian literature, Professor Emerita, University of Lund, Sweden Professor Peter France Specialist in modern Russian poetry and literary translation. Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh Professor Michael Basker Specialist in Russian 19th- and 20th-century poetry. University of Bristol.
Freelance journalist. Author of Fear and the Muse Kept Watch (2015)
Linguist, translator. Editor-in-chief (Publishing Department, All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow; Book Centre Rudomino Publishers, Moscow). |