The Kennan Institute (Washington, D.C.)
    The Mandelstam Society (Moscow)
    and
    Princeton University's
        Humanities Council
        Slavic Languages and Literatures
        Program in Russian Studies
        Firestone Library
        Program in Canadian Studies
    present:

    The Legacy of
    Osip Mandelstam
    an international conference commemorating the 25th anniversary
    of the gift of the Mandelstam papers to Princeton University
     

    Saturday and Sunday
    October 6 & 7, 2001
    Whig Hall, Senate Chamber
    Princeton University

    Conference Program
    "The Legacy of Osip Mandelstam"

    Saturday, October 6

    Breakfast: 9:00


    First Panel (9:30 AM): Remembering Nadezhda Iakovlevna Mandelstam

    Chair: Michael Wachtel

    • John Malmstad (Harvard University)
    • Clarence Brown (Princeton University, Emeritus)
    • Peggy Troupin (New York)

    Second Panel (10:30 AM): Osip Mandelstam: Biographical Considerations

    Chair: Ellen Chances

    • Oleg Lekmanov (Moscow), "Osip Mandel'shtam v 1922-1925 gg.: Fragment biografii poeta." ("Osip Mandelstam from 1922–1925: A Fragment of the Poet's Biography")
    • Andrei Ustinov (San Francisco), "Osip Mandel'shtam i Soiuz poetov" ("Osip Mandelstam and the Union of poets")


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    Lunch: 12:00
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    Third Panel (1:30 PM): Mandelstam archives in Princeton and elsewhere

    Chair: Nina Shapiro

    • Sophia Bogatyreva (Denver), "Arkhiv Mandel'shtama u nas doma" ("The Mandelstam Archive at Our House")
    • Pavel Nerler (Moscow/Freiburg), "Mandel'shtam i Amerika: k istorii peredachi Mandel'stamovskogo arkhiva v Prinstonskii universitet" ("Mandelstam and America: How the Mandelstam Archive Came to Princeton")
    • Marina Sokolova (Moscow), "O. Mandel'shtam v russkikh i evropeiskikh khranilishchakh: problemy opisaniia i sistematizatsii" ("Mandelstam archives in Russia and Europe.  The Problem of description and systematization")
    • Vladimir Litvinov (Snezhinsk), "WWW.MANDELSTAM.RU: Vossoedinennyi elektronnyi arkhiv poeta v sostave elektronnogo nauchnogo izdaniia (ENI) 'Osip Mandelstam'" ("WWW.MANDELSTAM.RU: A United Digital Archive of the Poet in the Form of Electronic Publication (EP)"
    • Sergei Vasilenko (Moscow), "'Puteshestvie v Armeniiu': ot chernovikov k pechatnomu tekstu" ("Mandelstam's Journey to Armenia: from the drafts to the published text")
    • Elena Alexeeva (Princeton), "Ten' Khardzhieva v arkhive Mandel'stama" ("Khardzhiev's Shadow in the Mandelstam Archive")

    Evening:

    8:00 Christopher Barnes (University of Toronto): "Music by Russian Poets:  A lecture-recital of solo piano." (TAPLIN AUDITORIUM)

    Sunday, October 7

    Breakfast: 9:00

    First Panel (9:30 AM): Mandelstam's poetics

    Chair: Ksana Blank

    • Boris Gasparov (Columbia University), "The dry and the wet in Mandelstam's poetry of the 1930s"
    • Iurij Freidin (Moscow), "K probleme vnutrennego i vneshnego podteksta u Mandel'shtama" ("On the question of internal and external subtexts in Mandelstam")
    • Andrew Reynolds (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "V poezii vsegda voina: the subtextual approach to Mandelstam in the light of Western theories of intertextuality and influence"
    • Stuart Goldberg (Davidson College), "Raising the Onionskin:  An Approach to the Problem of Mandelstam and Mythopoetic Symbolism"
    • Nancy Pollak (Cornell University), "Helen or Not Helen in Mandelstam and Pasternak"

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      Lunch: 12:30
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    Second Panel (2:00): Mandelstam's poetics; dialogue with predecessors and contemporaries
       
    Chair: Charles E. Townsend
    • Mikhail Gasparov (Moscow), "Razbor mandel'shtamovskogo perevoda iz Petrarki: istoriia teksta i kriterii smysla" ("Mandelstam's translation of Petrarch: The History of the Text and the Criteria of Sense")
    • Julia Zarankin (Princeton University), "The Language of Recognition: Mandelstam's Poetic Encounter with Batiushkov"
    • Nikolai Bogomolov (Moscow), "Gumilev i Mandel'shtam v rannikh 30-kh gg." ("Gumilev and Mandelstam in the early 1930s")


      • Break: 3:45
    Third Panel (4:00): Mandelstam's poetics; dialogue with contemporaries and successors

    Chair: Olga Peters Hasty

    • Alexander Kobrinsky (St. Petersburg), "Imazhinisty i Mandel'shtam: problemy poetiki" ("The Imaginists and Mandelstam: Problems of Poetics")
    • Nina Khrushcheva (The New School University), "Mandelstam and Nabokov: On Poetic Genius"
    • Michael Eskin (Columbia University), "In the Shadow of Dante: Mandelstam and Durs Grünbein"

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      "The Legacy of Osip Mandelstam" is sponsored by the Kennan Institute (Washington, D.C.), the Humanities Council of Princeton University, and the Slavic Department of Princeton University.

      Essential assistance has been provided by Firestone Library (Princeton University), the Program in Russian Studies (Princeton University), the Program in Candian Studies (Princeton University), and the Mandelstam Society (Moscow).

      A small exhibit of Mandelstam manuscripts and photographs, prepared by Slavic Bibliographer Nina Shapiro, is in a display case at Firestone Library.


      ALL PANELS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
      ALL PANELS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE