VLADIMIR NABOKOV INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL 					CONFERENCE
			    CAMBRIDGE 6-10 JULY 1999
           
			NABOKOV AT THE CROSSROADS

Note for participants in residence: please report to the Porter's Lodge, 
Jesus College, on arrival to collect your room key.

TUESDAY 6 JULY 
		REGISTRATION
11.30	Alcock Room, Jesus College

13.00	Lunch, Main Hall


CONFERENCE
Upper Hall, Jesus College

	
FIRST SESSION STARTS AT 14.15


Don Barton Johnson (UC Santa Barbara)
Opening words

Galya Diment  (University of Washington) 
Cambridge, Brooke and Goal-Keeping: Young Nabokov in England

Charles Nicol (Indiana State) 
The Duel at Cambridge: "Glory" as a Work of Anglo-Russian  Literature

Grigori Utgof (Tallinn)
"Glory" and "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight": A Comparative Reading


		16.00-16.15
		Tea

16.15-17.30
Don Barton Johnson (UC Santa Barbara)
Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's "Otherworld"

Catriona Kelly (New College, Oxford)
 Nabokov and "Snobizm"

18.00	Drinks Reception
Michael Branch (Director, SSEES, University of London)

20.15	Prioress's Room, Jesus College
Informal videofilm showing:
Kliuchi Nabokova (1997)
Commentary (in Russian): Evgenii Belodubrovskii (St Petersburg)


WEDNESDAY 7 JULY 
9.15-11.00

Maria Malikova (St Petersburg)
Nabokov and Pushkin

Dale Peterson  (Amherst College)
White (K)nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories

Natalia Pervukhina (Tennessee) 
Chekhov and Nabokov in Polemic with their Time

Galina Rylkova ( Ohio State)
"Beyond the Limits of a Vulgar Fate": On Kuzminian Subtext in Nabokov's 
"The Eye" and "Pale Fire"

		
11.00-11.15
		Coffee

11.15-12.45	
Vladimir Alexandrov (Yale)
Nabokov and Tolstoy: Notes on Allusions and Parallels

Michael Meylac (Antilles and Guyana) 
(Meta)poesis and Intertextuality: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's "Sem' 
stikotvorenii" (Seven Poems)

Julian Connolly ( Virginia)
The Flight of Daedalus and Icarus in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov

					
13.00	Lunch

14.15-16.00
Leona Toker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity: "Speak, Memory" and "The 
Creative Mind"	

Zoran Kuzmanovich (Davidson College)
"Splendid Insincerity" as"Utmost Truthfulness": Nabokov and the Claims of 
the Real

Stephen Blackwell (Tennessee) 		
Nabokov, Mach, and Monism at the End of the Century


16.00-16.15
		Tea

16.15-18.00

Olga Skonechnaia (IMLI, Moscow)
The Wandering Jew as Metaphor of Memory in Nabokov's Fiction of the 1920s 
and 1930s

Gene Barabtarlo (Missouri-Columbia)
Grinding Personal Matter (on the movement of Nabokov's themes)

Boris Averin (St Petersburg) 
The Poetics of Memory in Nabokov's Prose

19.45 for 20.15		
DEAR BUNNY, DEAR VOLODYA.  Dramatic dialogue adapted from the letters of 
Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov by Terry Quinn (performed by Terry 
Quinn and Dmitri Nabokov)
Location: The Peterhouse Theatre (Auditorium)
Wine will be served beforehand		

THURSDAY 8 JULY 
9.15-11.00

Charles Lock (Copenhagen)
Tropes of Transparency
			
Rachel Trousdale (Yale )
"Books that Others Write": Proust, Nabokov, and James Merrill

Michael Wood (Princeton)
Time and Again: Proust after Nabokov

11.00-11.15
		Coffee

11.15-12.45
Ellen Pifer (Delaware) 
Did She have a Precursor?: "Lolita" and Wharton's "The Children"

Priscilla Meyer (Wesleyan University)
Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade

Brian Boyd (Auckland)
 "Then ... Again": Shades and Reflections of Eliot in "Pale Fire"


13.00
		Lunch

14.15-16.00

Neil Cornwell (Bristol) 
Governesses, Paintings and "Publishing Scoundrels": Nabokov and Henry 
James

Lara Delage-Toriel (Newnham College, Cambridge)	
Fussy Aphrodite or the Sexual Crux in Nabokov's  Last  Novels
  
John Burt Foster (George Mason University)	
Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats


16.00-16.15
		Tea

16.15-18.00

Jenefer Coates (Middlesex)
Nabokov's Editors

Paul Benedict Grant (Wolfson College, Cambridge)	
"The Poet Kept Smiling": Gallows Humour or Nabokov's Last Laughs

John Quin (Sussex)
How Did They Ever Make a Painting of ""Lolita"?


19.30  Punting from Trinity College 
(3 punts available. See notice board in Alcock Room) 
[meeting point: Boathouse, Trinity Backs]



FRIDAY 9 JULY 
9.15-11.00

Maurice Couturier (Nice)
Writing and Erasure, or the Other Text in Nabokov's Novels

David Bellos (Princeton) 
Nabokovian Models and Materials in the Writing of Georges Perec

Dieter Zimmer (Hamburg) 
Mimicry in Nature and Nabokov's Art


11.00-11.15
		Coffee

11.15-12.45
Stacy Schiff (New York) 
Our Man in Great Britain: London. Spring 1939

Zinovy Zinik (London)
Double Exile: An Illusion of Rejection

Jane Grayson (SSEES, London)	
concluding remarks

AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT TRINITY COLLEGE

15.00  	Trinity College
Tour  by member of the College, Adrian Poole.
[meeting point: under the Clock Tower, Great Court]

17.00-18.00  Winstanley Lecture Hall, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College
George Steiner FBA  (Churchill College, Cambridge)
A  Master at Babel

18.30	Drinks Reception, Neville Court (by invitation)
19.00       GALA DINNER (by invitation)
The Hall, Trinity College
President: Robert Pynsent (SSEES, London)
Guest Speakers: Brian Boyd, Dmitri Nabokov

SATURDAY 10 JULY
Departure from Cambridge