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Following the success of our 2021 and 2022 Graduate Research Forum events, the North American Dostoevsky Society is delighted to announce the schedule for our upcoming 2-day 2025 Student Research Forum on Dostoevsky event. This year we are adding a new Undergraduate Research Forum!
The Graduate Research Forum will take place virtually on Thurs, Jan 9 2025. See the schedule below:
Panel 1: Dostoevsky and Others (11am-1pm EST/4pm-6pm GMT/8am-10am PST)
Chair: Dr. Sarah Hudspith (University of Leeds)
Presenter 1: Donna Sanders (Columbia University) – “Wealth as a Barrier to Active Love in ‘A Gentle Creature’”
Presenter 2: Anna Tropnikova (Yale University) – “A Transgression of Hands: Kurosawa’s Adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Idiot” (winner of the 2024 NADS Graduate Essay Prize!)
Presenter 3: Daniel Schwartz (Brandeis University) – “Is There an Underground Man?: Depsychologized Interiority in Dostoevsky and Wittgenstein”
Presenter 4: Kelly Gallagher (The Ohio State University) – “Perverse Confessions in Poe’s Tales and Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground.”
Panel 2: From Crime and Punishment to The Brothers Karamazov (1:15-3:15pm EST/6:15-8:15pm GMT/10:15am-12:15pm PST)
Chair: Dr. Kate Holland (University of Toronto)
Presenter 1: Nikolai Smirnov (Brown University) – “The Significance of Internal Ideas and External Ideals for Character Development in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.”
Presenter 2: Liza Shershneva (University of Toronto) – “Disillusionment in Post-reform Justice: Literary and Public Discourse in Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov“
Presenter 3: Alina Fiorella (Independent Scholar) – “The Grand Inquisitor’s Russian Double: Father Zosima Beyond Dostoevskii’s Authorial Intent” (honorable mention in the 2024 NADS Graduate Essay Contest!)
The Undergraduate Research Forum will take place virtually on Fri, Jan 10 2025. See the schedule below:
Panel 1: The Brothers Karamazov (12-1:45pm EST/5-6:45pm GMT/9-10:45am PST)
Chair: Dr. Katya Jordan (Brigham Young University)
Presenter 1: Shudi Yang (Fudan University) – “Well, go, love Ivan!: Ivan Karamazov unveiled and the ‘Pro and Contra’ Debate revisited”
Presenter 2: Oscar Pavlove (University of Kansas) – “Кино Достоевского – Poetic Documentary”
Presenter 3: Camille Collins (Colgate University) – “Representation of Russian National Identity in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground“
Panel 2: Injustice, Blame and Redemption in Dostoevsky’s Novels (2-3:45pm EST/7-8:45pm GMT/11am-12:45pm PST)
Chair: Dr. Kate Holland (University of Toronto)
Presenter 1: Natalie Alderton (Pepperdine University, alumna) – “The Redemptive Gaze in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov” (winner of the 2024 NADS Undergraduate Essay Prize!)
Presenter 2: Emma Shobe (Brigham Young University) – “The Burden of Blame: Premarital Sex in Dostoevsky’s Works”
Presenter 3: Aidan Ward (The New School) – “Illegitimacy, Immaturity, and Intellectual Injustice: The Plight of Adolescence in Dostoevsky’s Late Novels”
Please come and support wonderful student work on Dostoevsky! We look forward to seeing you there!
With thanks to Kate Holland, Sarah Hudspith, and Katya Jordan for their work organizing the event this year!