Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004504, Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:36:52 -0700

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VN Centennial in Germany (fwd)
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From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>

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Here's the preliminary schedule for the conference in Freiburg on Nov 4
and 5th:

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Centennial Conference:
Vladimir Nabokov at 100

Regional Conference of the
German Association of American Studies

November 4th - 5th, 1999
at the
Albert-Ludwigs-University
Freiburg i. Br.


Program:

Thursday, November 4th

19:15
Opening Lecture: "Signs and Symbols" of Vladimir Nabokov's Legacy

Galya Diment
(University of Washington)


20:00
Reception and Conference Warming



Friday, November 5th

9:15 - 12:15
Workshop I:
Reading Nabokov - The Works
Chair: Herbert Grabes
(Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)

Paul D. Morris
(Saarland University)
'A Forgotten Poet': The Place of Poetry in Vladimir Nabokov's Stories

Herbert Grabes
(University of Giessen)
Nabokov's Worldmaking: The Marvellous Machinations of McFate

Carl Springer
(University of Hamburg)
Nabokov's Memory at Play: Look at the Harlequins


14:00-16:00
Workshop II:
Re-Reading Nabokov: Intertexts
Chair: Renate Hof
(Humboldt-University Berlin)

Nassim Balestrini
(University of Mainz)
Art and Marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's "Music" and Leo Tolstoy's "The
Kreutzer Sonata"

Bernd Klähn
(University of Bochum)
Postmodern Dialectics of Master and Maid: Vladimir Nabokov and Robert
Coover

Roy Sommer/Bruno Zerweck
(University of Giessen)
Lolita and the Cinema: The Lack of Unreliability in the Film Versions of
Vladimir Nabokov's Novel


17:00
Closing Lecture

Zoran Kuzmanovich
(Davidson College, NC)

Studying Nabokov Studies: Serial Selves and Future Recollections

18:00
Reception

English Department II
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg