Fw: International Scholarly Conference "A. S. Pushkin. Aspects of Scholarly Comments" June 12-16

The Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian
Academy of Science and the Pushkin Commission of the Russian Academy of
Science
announce an International Scholarly Conference

"A. S. Pushkin.  Aspects of Scholarly Comments"

The Conference will address the current scholarly issues
emerging in the course of preparation for publication of the new
academic edition of Pushkin's work.

The following main subjects are suggested for conference discussions:
- commentary to textual studies, correlation among final text, editing
attempts and various versions;
- textual history of the poet's rough notebooks;
- historical and literary commentaries;
-    commentaries to Pushkin's artistic, critical and epistolary
heritage;
- clarification of biographical data of Pushkin and his circle;
- clarification of the inspirational sources for Pushkin's lyrics and
the prototypes for his heroes;
- discussion of prototexts and intertextual connections;
- elaboration of dates and historical backgrounds of Pushkin's works;
- Pushkin's drawings as elements of the text, and clarification of
portrait sketches attribution.

The Conference will take place in St. Petersburg on June 12-16
and will continue in Moscow on June 17-19.

Participants' applications are accepted until May 15 at the address:

Attention: V. P. Stark
IRLI (Pushkin's House) RAN
4 Makarova nab
Russia St. Petersburg 199034 Russia

by fax (011 7812) 356-5330 or e-mail [email protected]

The application should specify the subject of the paper, the speaker's
name of the speaker, affiliation and position, and the dates of arrival
in St. Petersburg and departure from Russia.

A cultural program is scheduled for the Conference participants.
If required, hotel accommodations can be provided.

The proceedings of the Conference will be published.
The papers (not longer than 10 pages) should be submitted on diskettes
to the Organizing Committee during the Conference.

For additional information please contact:
Vadim Stark, tel. (011 7812) 356-5330;
Irina Dobrovolsky, tel. (011 7812) 377-2047

Organizing Committee