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Talk in the North American Dostoevsky Society virtual speaker series: Dr Katherine Bowers, 14 Oct 2024
Join us for Dr Katherine Bowers’s talk “Writing Fear: Physiological Petersburg, Dostoevsky, and the Rise of Gothic Realism” – scheduled for 14 October 2024 at 11am Mountain time (10am Pacific/1pm Eastern) at Brigham Young University. You can register for this co-sponsored talk via this link.
Conversations with Dostoevsky on God, Russia, Literature, and Life
Book by George Pattison, published by Oxford University Press UK in March 2024 . A middle-aged academic is sitting up over a late night glass of whisky in his Glasgow apartment pondering the meaninglessness of existence, when he is joined by Dostoevsky and they begin a series of conversations that cover God, Russia, literature and …
Deborah Martinsen: Dostoevsky: A Very Short Introduction
We are delighted to announce the publication of Deborah Martinsen’s new book, “Dostoevsky: A Very Short Introduction,” edited by Carol Apollonio with contributions from Deborah’s friends and colleagues: Randall Butler, Ellen Chances, Paul Contino, Nicole Fermon, Andrew Kahn, Ron Meyer, Marcia Morris, Savannah Pearson, Amy Ronner, and Jennifer White. Deborah inspired us all with her …
Japanese translation of Stefano Aloe’s IDS 2023 inaugural speech now available
Naohito Saisu has translated Stefano Aloe’s IDS 2023 inaugural speech on his blog. A link to the YouTube video recording of the speech is also available on the site.
New issue of The Dostoevsky Journal: A Comparative Literature Review (Vol 24, no. 1, Nov 2023)
Announcement from Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, chief editor of The Dostoevsky Journal: A Comparative Literature Review: The final issue of the journal for 2023, Volume 24 (2023): Issue 1 (Nov 2023) (partially pre-published by Brill in April 2023), has now been completed and is available in full on https://brill.com/view/journals/djir/24/1/djir.24.issue-1.xml Online ISSN: 2375-2122 Print ISSN: 1535-5314 Publisher: Brill.
Congratulations to Stefano Aloe and Katherine Bowers!
In Nagoya, Japan, at the XVIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society, Stefano Aloe and Katherine Bowers received the Society’s Award for Exemplary Service for their longstanding work for the Society. Congratulations!
Цифровые проекты Пушкинского Дома
Ссылки на Цифровой архив, Дипломатические транскрипции (тетради к “Бесам” и одну тетрадь к “Преступлению и наказанию”) и сериальное научное издание “Достоевский. Материалы и исследования”. В приложении картинки, которые можно использовать в роли индексов для гиперссылок. 1. Цифровой архив Достоевского (картинка для гиперссылки в приложении) 2. Дипломатическая транскрипция записных тетрадей Достоевского Записные тетради к роману “Бесы” …
Freshly published! The English translation of Kogure Yusuke’s article Atheism and Suicide in Devils
The latest issue of the Japan Mission Journal includes an article by Kogure Yusuke, “Atheism and Suicide in Devils,” translated by IDS member Joe O’Leary. Click here to view the full issue.
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”, …
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/
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 …
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.
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
Международный коллоквиум / International Colloquium – Ф.М. Достоевский: юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж / F.M. Dostoevsky: humor, paradoxality, demontage
Международный коллоквиум / International Colloquium Ф.М. Достоевский: юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж / F.M. Dostoevsky: humor, paradoxality, demontage Генуя – Италия, 27-29 мая 2021 г. / Genova 27-29 May 2021 Научно-организационный комитет / Scientific organizing committee Laura Salmon (University of Genoa) Stefano Aloe (University of Verona) Daria Farafonova (University of Urbino) Одна из первых международных конференций, посвященных …
IDS Members Participate in BBC Dostoevsky Forum
As part of the 150-year commemoration of Dostoevsky’s novel The Devils (Demons/The Possessed), IDS members Tatyana Kovalevskaya, Sarah Hudspith, and Carol Apollonio are featured on a BBC program discussing the novel, which will be broadcast November 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1rm1, and subsequently will be available for streaming at BBC World Service – The Forum, 04/11/2021 GMT.
Carol Apollonio and Deborah Martinsen awarded Dostoevsky Star
On July 12, 2021, NADS members Deborah Martinsen (Columbia University) and Carol Apollonio (Duke University) were awarded the “Dostoevsky Star,” a medal commemorating the Dostoevsky Bicentennial.
Launching Digital Dostoevsky
Digital Dostoevsky is a new digital humanities project that is doing computational text analysis on Dostoevsky’s corpus. It is supported by a major grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, hosted at the University of Toronto, and led by Kate Holland. The project is being chronicled on the blog digitaldostoevsky.com. For …