Reviving Visions: Artists and Scholars that Connected East and West

October 7–11, 2016

• The Conference Flyer
• Young Scholars’ Programme

In October 2016, students and teachers of our faculties will meet for a double conference “Reviving Visions: Artists and Scholars that connected East and West” in Cologne. Our students will meet on October 7 to present their discoveries—places, ideas, personalities, traditions and visions—that can help us to create a space of learning and scholarship that connects Eastern and Western traditions. They will present their findings and ideas to senior scholars of all three universities at Schloss Wahn on October 10 and 11.

Participants:

❧ Students from Warsaw, Moscow and Cologne
❧ Prof. Dr. Andrew Kahn (University of Oxford), keynote speaker
❧ Prof. Dr. Rita Giuliani (La Sapienza, Rome)
❧ Prof. Dr. Kornelija Ičin (University of Belgrade)
❧ Prof. Dr. Elena Penskaya (HSE)
❧ Prof. Dr. Jörg Schulte (Cologne)
❧ Dr. Kamelia Spassova (Cologne / Sofia)
❧ Dr. Marianna Koliová (Cologne / Bratislava)

Jörg Schulte: Vladimir Nabokov and the Calendrical Code in Russian Literature

Факултетът по славянски филологии
Катедрата по Теория на литературата и Семинарът за хуманитаристи
Ви канят на публичната лекция на

Jörg Schulte
Vladimir Nabokov and the Calendrical Code
in Russian Literature

15 февруари 2016 г., 18.30 часа
Нова конферентна зала, Ректорат на СУ
Лекцията ще се проведе на английски език

Many of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels contain calendrical motives, some of them offer calendrical riddles. These riddles can be solved through a combination of historical data and events mentioned in the novel and literary allusions. Creating a “calendrical code” Nabokov continues a tradition in Russian literature that reaches back to Pushkin and Gogol’ and was continued by Chekhov and Esenin. Referring to Nabokov’s Russian novels Mary, Glory and The Gift as well as to his first English novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight the lecture attempts to reveal some invisible links between different periods of Russian culture.