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Publication from 2022! Katalin Kroó, Andrey Faustov, Sergey Savinkov: Перевоплощения смысла в творчестве Достоевского : семиотические заметки

К. Кроо, А.А. Фаустов, С.В. Савинков Перевоплощения смысла в творчестве Достоевского : семиотические заметки Монография посвящена исследованию поэтики Достоевского в семиотической перспективе. В фокусе внимания авторов оказываются основополагающие для писателя категории двойничества, времени, природы, неопределенности, сходства, асимметрии, целого, части, середины. Исследование построено на материале полного корпуса сочинений Достоевского, но главным объектом истолкования выступают такие произведения, …

Контексты Серебряного века Под знаком Достоевского

Presentation of the new website “Контексты Серебряного века: Под знаком Достоевского”

Исследовательский центр Вяч. Иванова в Риме и Веронский университет приглашают на презентацию (в зуме) 21 февраля в 16 часов по Римскому времени (18 часов по Московскому) он-лайн ресурса Контексты Серебряного века: Под знаком Достоевского https://servekdost.ru/ (Институт мировой литературы РАН) Ведет презентацию главный редактор журнала Dostoevsky Studies, Стефано Алоэ (профессор, Веронский университет). Со стороны ИМЛИ РАН …

The Weird Russian 19th Century Symposium

You are warmly invited to a two-day symposium on “The Weird Russian 19th Century,” hosted by the Russian and East European Program at Rutgers University. Note the three panels on “Weird Dostoevsky”! Register for each day of the symposium at the links below. The Weird Russian 19th Century Friday, April 28, 2023 Registration link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqcOiqqjkrE9Y45mSEX9MtDD59Ydzh9T7T …

International Dostoevsky Society International Video Competition

Celebration of the winners of the First International Dostoevsky Society “5-Minutes Demons”, sponsored by the IDS, with the support of the XVIII IDS Symposium Japanese Organizing Committee (November 19th 2022) Мы (МОД) объявили конкурс 5-минутных видео любого жанра по мотивам романа Достоевского Бесы, которому исполняется 150 лет в этом и прошлом году. We (IDS) asked …

Renewed Call for Papers: Global Dostoevskys

The North American Dostoevsky Society invites proposals for blog posts on the topic of “Global Dostoevskys: Influences and Receptions” for our official blog The Bloggers Karamazov. Posts for this limited series should focus on an aspect of Dostoevsky’s influence and reception outside of Russia. Less researched sites of influence and unexplored areas of reception are especially …

North American Dostoevsky Society Graduate Research Panel, Nov 2 2022 – 12pm Eastern/4pm UK

Russian Literature from Pushkin to Blok YouTube Channel

The Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences welcomes readers, teachers, and scholars of Dostoevsky to explore its YouTube channel, “Russian Literature from Pushkin to Blok.” Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEaLOWvJir6CWTd_MeuQCEQ

New publication! “Portreti junaka i junakinja Dostojevskog” by Vladika Maksim

Ova inspirativna, pronicljivo napisana i bogato ilustrovana knjiga izlazi na svetlost dana u momentu kada se na prostoru šire otadžbine velikog pisca Fjodora Dostojevskog odvija najveća drama od Drugog svetskog rata, koja seje smrt, uništenje i bedu. Istovremeno, njen autor podseća na složenost „ruske duše“ koju potvrđuju jurodivi junaci Dostojevskog – kritičari apsolutizma, okrutne vlasti …

Report on the IDS Pre-symposium, August 2022

Prior to the upcoming XVIII Symposium, we held a workshop and a pre-symposium in Nagoya, Japan, at the venue where the symposium will take place next year. On August 8th a group of Dostoevsky scholars gathered at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies (NUFS) and held a workshop titled “Dostoevsky — Possibilities for Interpretation and Adaptation”, …

Dostoevsky Exhibition in San Francisco

Having toured Greece, New York, and Boston, the international art installation “Saved by Beauty: Dostoevsky and America” will premiere at the Russian Center in San Francisco on September 24, 2022 located at 2450 Sutter Street This exhibit is a tribute to literary legend Fyodor Dostoevsky on the occasion of two hundred years since his birth …

“The Mothers Karamazov” IDS Pre-symposium on August 19, 2022 / Объявление: пресимпозиум в 19 августа 2022 года

Pre-symposium on August 19, 2022 “The Mothers Karamazov” Dear Colleagues, We have the pleasure to inform you that we are holding a pre-symposium for IDS 2023 in Nagoya on August 19, 2022. The program includes a lecture by our ex-president Vladimir Zakharov, two presentations by young Japanese scholars and a keynote lecture by …

Freshly published! “Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic”

Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic by Dr Katherine Bowers was published last month by University of Toronto Press. The book includes several chapters on Dostoevsky’s engagement with the gothic, focusing on his 1840s prose and his novels The Idiot and Demons. Link to the publisher’s site: https://utorontopress.com/9781487526924/writing-fear/

Freshly published! MLA Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

Michael Katz and Alex Burry have co-edited a contribution to the MLA Approaches to Teaching Series — this one is on teaching Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. It includes 24 original essays and sections on Materials, and Analysis of several important themes. Link: https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Approaches-to-Teaching-World-Literature/Approaches-to-Teaching-Dostoevsky-s-Crime-and-Punishment

Book Panel: Deborah Martinsen’s “Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide”

On Friday, April 1 at 4pm Eastern, the Harriman Institute, together with the North American Dostoevsky Society and Academic Studies Press, will host a roundtable discussion to celebrate the publication of Deborah Martinsen’s Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide (2022). With speakers Katherine Bowers (University of British Columbia), Erica Drennan (Barnard College), Kate Holland …

F. M. Dostoevsky in Tomsk in 2021

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky, a number of various events were held in Tomsk in 2021. The book Geopolitical Map and Worldview of F.M. Dostoevsky included in the series “Sourcesand Methodsin the Study of the Heritage of F.M. Dostoevsky in Russian and World Culture” was published. Tomsk: Tomsk State University Press, 2021. http://vital.lib.tsu.ru/vital/access/manager/Repository/koha:000718409 The presentation of the …

CFP: Всероссийская научно-практическая конференция «Центр – периферия – граница: междисциплинарные исследования географии России, Сибири и приграничных территорий»

В Центре изучения творчества Ф. М. Достоевского планируется провести конференцию к юбилею П.П. Семенова-Тян-Шанского, одна из секций которой посвятится истории его взаимоотношений с Достоевским и в целом исследованию культуры и быта в Сибири во времена пребывания Достоевского в Омске: (Информация о конференции).

New documentary film: Universal Dostoevsky

New Documentary film: “Universal Dostoevsky” featuring readers around the world, including NADS/IDS members and the winners in the 2016 inaugural round of the Dostoevsky Games.

Announcing: RUS (Revista de Literatura e Cultura Russa), University of São Paulo journal, special issue devoted to the Dostoevsky Bicentennial

Acaba de entrar no ar a nova edição da RUS – Revista de Literatura e Cultura Russa, da Universidade de São Paulo, em comemoração aos 200 anos de Dostoiévski. Imperdível! LINK Editorial Fátima Bianchi Artigos “Dostoïevski face à l’altérité, entre lecture bakhtinienne et interprétation lévinassienne. Notes sur Dostoïevski. La Question de l’autre, de Jacques Rolland” …

Ikuo Kameyama, Tetsuo Mochizuki awarded “Dostoevsky Star” medal

On December 2, the “Dostoevsky Star” medal was presented to IDS Board Member Ikuo Kameyama at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. The second laureate, long-time International Dostoevsky Society member, Tetsuo Mochizuki, was unable to attend. Warm congratulations to Professor Kameyama and Professor Mochizuki!

BBC Program: “Dostoevsky and the Russian Soul”

A bicentennial program (November 11, 2021), with IDS’s own Sarah Young, Rowan Williams, Rosamund Bartlett, and others.

Documentary: “Dostoevsky through the Eyes of the World” (2021)

Lomonosov Moscow State University is glad to share the student documentary short film “Dostoevsky through the Eyes of the World”, in which leading Dostoevsky scholars from different countries of the world took part. Professors Stefano Aloe, Slobodanka M. Vladiv-Glover and other famous and honoured Dostoevsky scholars took part in this documentary. Link: https://youtu.be/2EvJZ4Cn6GM

Dostoevsky for the 21st Century: Reflections on the Bicentenary – Nov 18, 10am EST

On November 11, 2021, the world celebrated the bicentenary of Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s greatest literary treasures. What is his enduring influence on culture and philosophy? What appeal do international readers find in his style and message today? And how do contemporary audiences explore and (re)interpret his writings? At this event, we will discuss …

A birthday party for Dostoevsky! 7pm EST on Nov 11

The North American Dostoevsky Society invites you to a multimedia extravaganza birthday party for Fyodor Mikhailovich, to take place on Zoom on Nov 11 2021 at 4pm PST/7pm EST.