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 …
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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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Conversations with Dostoevsky
Imagine that you were sitting up one evening, drinking a glass of whisky, reading Dostoevsky, and thinking about the eternal questions - and then, out of nowhere, Dostoevsky himself is there. What would you say? More importantly, what would he say? This is the starting-point of the new blog …
Интервью о новой экспозиции
13 января в газете «Известия» было опубликовано большое интервью, где Павел Фокин немного рассказываю о новой экспозиции музея. https://iz.ru/1110398/arina-stulova/dostoevskii-otkryl-russkim-liudiam-russkii-mir …
19v: A Working Group on 19th-Century Russian Culture
This summer the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University has launched 19v: A Working Group on 19th-Century Russian Culture. The group is organizing a series of talks, reading groups, a book series, a blog, and other activities. More Details …