XXII International Humanities Summer School
School of Philology, Moscow State University
Department of General and Applied Philology, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Leo Tolstoy State Museum
Mikhail Prokhorov Fund
National Literary Classics in Global Transit: New Tasks for Literary Scholarship and Education
Program
Monday, 24 June. Sociocultural Mechanisms for the Classical Texts in Transit |
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| 10:00 | Opening remarks Lecture Jacob Emery, “Network and Panorama: the World through the Prism of Literature” |
| 11:30 | Break |
| 11:45 | Dialogue: The Politics of Canonization and Canon Revision Ira Nadel, “Ezra Pound, Classics and Practices of Counter-Culture” Anton Nesterov, “The Modernist Classic in Russia Today” |
| 13:00 | Break |
| 14:00 | Dialogue: (Far-)Eastern Paths of Cultural Transit Aleksandr Meshcheriakov, “The Reception of Classical Japanese Literature in Russia” Ilya Smirnov, “The Reception of Classical Russian Literature in China” |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 16:00 | Roundtable: Ideologies of Literary Internationalism in Russia Ekaterina Dmitrieva, “Why Break the Pantheon and Build the Canon, and What is the Difference Between Cultural Transfer and Comparative Literature Studies?” Elena Ostrovskaya, “Perspectival Canon Formation: Utopia or Reality?” Nikolay Poselyagin, “Why Do We Love to Discussi the Canon, Yet Still Make No Progress? |
| 17:30 | Break |
| 18:00 | Screening: The Story of Temple Drake (1933) |
Вторник, 25 июня. The Transmedialization of Literary Classics |
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| 10:00 | Seminar: Jacob Emery “‘Tolstoevsky’ in America |
| 11:30 | Break |
| 11:45 | Dialogue: Mikhail Stroganov, “On a First-Name Basis with Pushkin: On the “Profanization” of Classical Texts |
| 13:00 | Break |
| 14:00 | Roundtable: Foreign Classics and National Cinema Cultures – Three Adaptations of William Faulkner’s Sanctuary Sergei Kapterev, Dmitry Salysnsky, Polina Rybina, Diane Nemec Ignashev |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 16:00 | Roundtable: Nineteenth-century Western Classics in Contemporary “Packaging” Aleksandra Borisenko, Anastasia Zavozova, Galina Iuzefovich |
| 17:30 | Break |
| 18:00 | Invitation for Discussion: Gasan Guseinov,“Classics in the Subjunctive” |
Wednesday, 26 June. Literary Classics in the Classroom |
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| 10:00 | Seminar: Jacob Emery, “Classes and Classics” |
| 11:30 | Break |
| 11:45 | Lecture: Liubov’ Borusiak, “Classics National and Foreign as Read by Young People in Russia Today” |
| 13:00 | Break |
| 14:00 | Roundtable: Foreign Classics in Russian Schools – A “Methodological Flea Market” among teachers from Moscow school, lyceums, and gymnasia, led by Anton Skulaev |
| 15:30 | Roundtable: Foreign Literature in Russian Higher Education: Traditions and Vectors of Possible Change Andrei Golubkov, Iulia Ivanova, Olga Panova |
| 17:30 | Break |
| 18:30 | Conversation with theater director Aleksei Levinsky: “Foreign Classics on the Russian Stage: Theater as a School for Cultural Dialogue” |