The latest issue of Dostoevsky Studies, issue 27, is out now. You can find it on the journal’s website. The issue is dedicated to the memory of Horst-Jürgen Gerigk and features 10 articles as well as a foreward from editor Katalin Kroó, book reviews, and news items.
The 2nd conference of the Brasilian Dostoevsky Society, “Dostoevsky: Multiple Perspectives” will take place in Sao Paulo on March 26-27 2025. Abstracts can be submitted via the forms below in the working languages of the conference until end of January: Português: https://forms.gle/LYj2xApEAUHyXFLA6 Espanhol: https://forms.gle/rqS6xPvcYPkaAeKfA Inglês: https://forms.gle/btKvFjAbbSMBDVKW7 Russo: https://forms.gle/d2UGkrayAFWsb8J88
The 2025 North American Dostoevsky Society Student Research Forum will be held January 9-10 2025 virtually. The full program can be found here.
International Conference in Athens, Greece, 16th-18th October, 2025 (University of Athens, Panepistimiou 30, Athens) Under the aegis of the International Dostoevsky Society, with the participation of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona, Italy This international conference aims to explore the profound themes of humanness and divinity as depicted in …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
The North American Dostoevsky Society invites blog posts from undergraduate students for our official blog, Bloggers Karamazov. Posts for this limited student series should focus on the topic of “Reading Dostoevsky Today.”
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.
In view of the strong geopolitical divisions in contemporary cultural narratives, which affect perceptions of Russian literature and culture in particular, the Editors wish to bring together scholars who represent the field of Dostoevsky research across countries and continents, in order to map current approaches to Dostoevsky as a complex cultural phenomenon, bridging fiction, journalism, …
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!
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” …
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.
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 …
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”, …
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/
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” featuring readers around the world, including NADS/IDS members and the winners in the 2016 inaugural round of the Dostoevsky Games.
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!
