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From: Natasha Kurchanova <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:15 PM
Subject: Listserv announcement question
To: Tamara Jhashi <[email protected]>

*THE PRIGOV ENCYCLOPEDIA:*

*THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL PRIGOV SYMPOSIUM*



St. Petersburg, May 16-18, 2016,  Institute of Russian Literature at the
Russian Academy of Science (The Pushkin House), Makarov Embankment, 4.



The Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House, Russian Academy of
Sciences), the State Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum, and the Prigov
Foundation announce the 6th International  Prigov Symposium to be held in
St. Petersburg, May 16-18, 2016. The encyclopedia and encyclopedic
knowledge is the central theme of this symposium. Since the Enlightenment,
the main means of  imparting the human knowledge a systemic character, the
encyclopedia has been reconsidered by the  20th century’s thinkers as a
utopian discourse and as a vehicle of imaginary worlds. This
reinterpretation of the encyclopedia triggered the need to systematize
creative and scholarly approaches in search of the perfect language (to use
Umberto Eco’s formula). Seen in this context, Prigov’s oeuvre represents
possibilities of the language and various media in the production of
universalizing discourses, each displaying encyclopedic ambition to embrace
the entire world. We invite papers focusing on Prigov’s treatment of the
encyclopedic discourse and discussing his interpretation of relationships
between the word and the image, expansion of genres into various medial
spheres, as well as  Prigov’s global life-long creative project, which by
itself constitutes the “encyclopedia of the Russian life”.



Presenters are allocated 20 minutes each + 5 min. for comments and
questions after each presentation.



Papers will be presented in Russian and English.



A limited number of travel grants of  up to $500 are available upon
admission to the conference program. Accommodation for 3 nights will be
provided and partially covered.



Please send your abstract (300 words) and a short bio to
[email protected].



The deadline is *April 10, 2016.*








-- 
Tamara Jhashi, Ph.D.

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