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Truths and Fictions: Two Centuries of Scottish-Russian Encounters
Venue: Dalhousie Building (room 2S17), University of Dundee, Old Hawkhill, Dundee DD1 5EN
Period: June 20, 2016
The symposium is sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Centre for Global History at the University of Dundee
This one-day symposium, the third in a series organised by the 'Scotland and Russia: Cultural Encounters Since 1900' Project, aims to explore the history of Scottish-Russian cultural exchange and influence. For the first time, it will also look at the nineteenth-century roots of twentieth-century perceptions across a range of talks on literature, translation, performance and revolutionary politics. Keynote speakers include Dr Dmitry Fedosov of the Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences and Billy Kay, producer of 'The Scots in Russia' series for BBC Radio Scotland.
Program
10:00-10:05 - Welcome
10:05-11:05 - Plenary 1 ‘Recording Russia’s Scots’
11:05-11:30 - Coffee
11:30-13:00 - Panel 1: The Scots Encounter the Russians
A “great friend of mine and of Tolstoy”: Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s Encounter with Tolstoy and Tolstoyans’
‘J. M. Barrie and the Ballets Russes’
‘Aberdeen and the Russian Revolution’
13:00-14:00 - Lunch
14:00-15:00 - Plenary 2 ‘The Silver Age in the Scotland-Russia Story, 1900-1917’
15:00-15:30 - Coffee
15:30-16:30 - Panel 2: The Russians Encounter the Scots
‘Scots in Russian Literature’
‘Translations of Robert Burns’s Poetry in the Soviet Union: Samuil Marshak and his Burns’
16:30-17:30 - Panel 3: Reading Across Borders
‘Influence without Anxiety: Stevenson Reading Dostoevsky (Reading Hugo)’
‘The Shadow Double and the Law: Stevenson, Nabokov and Dostoevsky’
19:00 - Dinner
The participants
- Billy Kay (Producer of ‘The Scots in Russia’ series for BBC Radio Scotland)
- Lindy Moore (Independent Scholar)
- Olga Sobolev (LSE)
- Paul Dukes (Aberdeen)
- Dmitry Fedosov (Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Muireann Maguire (Exeter)
- Natalia Kaloh Vid (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
- Alastair Renfrew (Durham)
- Rose France (Edinburgh)
How to participate to the Conference/Event
Registration
The event is free but places are limited, so please register here: Book on Eventbrite
Organizer and Partners
PECOB: Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe - University of Bologna - 117, c.so della Repubblica - Italy
