The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here.
Are you an undergraduate student who is interested in Dostoevsky and public writing?
The North American Dostoevsky Society invites blog posts from undergraduate students for our official blog, Bloggers Karamazov. Posts for this limited student series should focus on the topic of “Reading Dostoevsky Today.”
In light of recent calls for the re-assessment of 19th-century nationalism and imperialism in our scholarship and our classrooms, Bloggers Karamazov recently published the series Problems of Teaching Dostoevsky Now, in which educators reflected on the experience of teaching Dostoevsky in the wake of the Russian invasion of and on-going war in Ukraine. But what is reading Dostoevsky in our contemporary moment like for students? Undergraduate students reading Dostoevsky today have lived through unprecedented events like the COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant lockdowns, and have witnessed the outbreak of wars, the rise of protest culture, grassroots activist movements, AI, culture wars, and more. How have such developments impacted their engagement with Dostoevsky’s works? How has Dostoevsky informed their understanding of life today?
Posts considering these questions are welcome from North American students and beyond. Posts should ideally be between 800 and 1200 words. Photos, images, and videos accompanying posts are welcome, but authors should make sure these are public domain or permission is given to share them on the blog. All posts on the blog are published with a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
If you are interested in becoming a contributor, please send submissions and a brief bio to bloggerskaramazov (at) gmail (dot) com. The publication schedule and any revisions will be negotiated with the editors.
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