The North American Dostoevsky Society held a virtual speaker series to celebrate Dostoevsky’s bicentennial in 2021. The series included talks throughout 2020-21 and 2021-22 organized by or featuring North American Dostoevsky Society members. Given the success of the series and the ease of gathering on Zoom to listen to and discuss Dostoevsky scholarship, we plan to continue it in the future.
All are welcome at the events with registration. Registration details will be posted and announced as they are available.
If you would like to co-host or co-sponsor a talk in the series, please get in touch!
Upcoming
Postponed
The talk has been postponed due to illness. When an update is available, it will be posted here.
Past talks
Weds, Oct 12 2022
“The Improbable Poetics of Crime and Punishment” by Dr Greta Matzner-Gore (University of Southern California)
Part of the Bristol Dostoevsky Workshop, hosted by the University of Bristol Department of Russian and Czech and the BASEES 19th-Century Study Group
Fri, Apr 1 2022
“Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide”: a book panel in celebration of Deborah Martinsen, featuring Dr Katherine Bowers (UBC), Dr Greta Matzner-Gore (USC), Dr Erica Drennan (Barnard), Dr Marcia Morris (Georgetown), Dr Ronald Meyer (Columbia), and Dr Kate Holland (Toronto)
Hosted by the Harriman Institute of Columbia University and co-sponsored by Academic Studies Press and the North American Dostoevsky Society
Tues, Feb 10 2022
“Dostoevsky’s Capitalist Realism, or Why Money Doesn’t Burn in The Idiot” by Dr Vadim Shneyder (UCLA)
Hosted by the University of British Columbia Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
Thu, Dec 9 2021
“Temporality in Dostoevsky’s Imperial Imagination” by Dr Kate Holland (University of Toronto)
Hosted by the University of Bristol Department of Czech and Russian
Weds, Nov 17 2021
Dr Andrew D Kaufman (U of Virginia) in conversation with Dr Robin Feuer Miller about “The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky”
Hosted by the Brandeis University Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Weds, Oct 20 2021
“The Lives of Characters in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy” by Dr Chloë Kitzinger (Rutgers)
Hosted by the University of Toronto Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Weds, Apr 7 2021
“Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: A Book Talk with Dr Paul Contino (Pepperdine University)”
Hosted by the Fordham University Orthodox Studies Christian Center with support from the Fordham Russian Forum
Tues, Jan 26 2021
“Road, River, and Book: the Russian Literary Underworld” by Dr Barbara Henry (University of Washington)
Hosted by the University of British Columbia Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
Mon, Nov 23 2020
“Dostoevsky’s Gothic Novel: Writing Fear in The Idiot” by Dr Katherine Bowers (University of British Columbia)
Hosted by the University of Toronto Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Thurs, Oct 29 2020
“Selling the Story: Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Economic Criticism” by Dr Jonathan Paine (Wolfson College, Oxford).
Hosted by the Davis Center and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University
Thank you to all our speakers, hosts, and sponsors!
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