#TheDoubleEvent

In November 2015, the North American Dostoevsky Society launched its first multimedia online event. It hosted #TheDoubleEvent to celebrate Dostoevsky’s 1846 novella The Double. During #TheDoubleEvent:

• Students and faculty read The Double.

• Readers wrote responses to the novella on our Facebook page.

• Scholars wrote a series of blog posts on different interdisciplinary takes on the work:
  1. Connor Doak on “Gender Trouble in The Double: Masculinity in Dostoevsky’s Novella and Ayoade’s Film” on All the Russias | Cross-posted on The Bloggers Karamazov
  2. Katherine Bowers on “Gothic Doubling and The Double, Gothically” on All the Russias | Cross-posted on The Bloggers Karamazov
  3. Amy Ronner on “Golyadkin’s Human ‘Shriek’” on The Bloggers Karamazov

• Yakov Golyadkin himself tweeted his experience Nov 2-5, 2015.

• And on Nov 6, 2015 students and faculty across North America simultaneously watched and live-tweeted Ayoade’s 2013 adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novella.

Screenings of The Double took place at:

• USC (Los Angeles): Friday, November 6^th at 5PM PST in THH (Taper Hall) 114 on the University Park Campus.
• McGill (Montreal): Friday, November 6^th at 8PM EST in Sherbrooke 688, Room 321.
• UBC (Vancouver): Friday, November 6^th at 5PM PST in Buchanan Tower 218.
• U of Toronto: Friday, November 6^th at 8PM EST in AH404, 121 St. Joseph St.
• U of Illinois at Chicago: Friday, November 6^th as part of the UIC Russian Film Club series.
• Duke (Durham NC): Friday, November 6^th at 8PM EST in 305 Language Building.
• U of Virginia (Charlottesville VA): Friday, November 6^th at  8 PM EST in New Cabell Hall 236.

#TheDoubleEvent was co-organized by Brian Armstrong and Katherine Bowers with assistance from Kristina McGuirk.