International Nabokov
Conference in Kyoto, 2010
March 24 - 27, 2010 at Conference Hall, Co-op Inn Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
9:00 – 10:30 Presentations
1.
Andrey Babikov (The Culture Center of Ukraine in Moscow), "Nabokov's
Revisions of Lolita in the
Screenplay"
2. Jacqueline Hamrit (Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille3), "Generic Glidings and Endless Writing from The Enchanter to Lolita: A Screenplay through Lolita"
3.
Julian W. Connolly (University of Virginia), "Nabokov Revising Nabokov:
The Lolita Screenplays"
11:00
–
12:30
Presentations
4. Shun'ichiro Akikusa (University of Tokyo), "Nabokov's 'Natural Idiom': From 'First-rate' Russian to 'Second-rate' English
5. Marie C. Bouchet (University of Toulouse), "Vladimir Nabokov, or How to Turn Exile into Art"
6. Lyuba Tarvi (Helsinki University),"Female Protagonists in Nabokov’s Russian Novels: No Stars in the Cast?"
13:30 – 14:30 Plenary Speaker: Maurice Couturier, “Lolita Revisited by a New Annotator”
14:30 – 15:30 Presentations
7. Tadashi Wakashima (Kyoto University), "Another Road to Lolita: A Transatlantic View"
8. Catharine T. Nepomnyashchy (Columbia University), "Revising Nabokov Revising the Detective Novel: Vladimir, Agatha, and the Terms of Engagement"
16:00 – 17:00 Presentations
9. Maya Medlock (Yamaguchi University), "La Figlia che Piange—Tears in Lolita"
10. Akiko Nakata (Nanzan Junior College), "Some Spiritual Subtexts Hidden in Transparent Things"
March 26
9:00 – 10:30 Presentations
11. Leland de la Durantaye (Harvard University), "Bend Sinister’s Mad Dash or How to Impersonate an Anthropomorphic Deity"
12.
Kazunao Sugimoto (Aichi Shukutoku University), "Orpheus Stories of
Nabokov"
13.
Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College), "Saving Jewish-Russian Émigrés"
11:00 – 12:30 Presentations
14. Maria Alhambra (University of East Anglia), "Time Camouflaged, or the Riddle of the Map: Paratextual Elements and Temporal Structure in the 1966 Revision of Speak, Memory"
15. Siggy Frank (University of Nottingham), "Revis(it)ing Memories: Images in Nabokov's Autobiography"
16. Ellen Pifer (University of Delaware), "Folding His Magic Carpet: Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Lolita"
13:30 – 14:30 Plenary Speaker:
Brian Boyd, “Nabokov as Psychologist: Routes for Exploration”
14:30 – 15:30 Presentations
17. Nobuaki Kakinuma (Kobe Shoin Women's University), "From the Onegin Commentary to Pale Fire: Comparing the Annotations of Nabokov and Lotman"
18. Mitsuyoshi Numano (University of Tokyo), "On Stylistic Exuberance of The Gift as a Russian Novel"
16:00
–
16:30
Presentations
19.
Jean-Pierre Luauté (Psychiatrist, Romans, France), "Was Nabokov a
Psychologist?: About Despair and
Nabokov’s Inflexible Criticism of Freud’s Doctrine"
20. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney (College of the Holy Cross), "'Almost Completed but Only Partly Corrected': Enacting Revision in Nabokov"
March 27
9:00
– 10:00
Presentations
21. Maria Malikova (Pushkinskii Dom), "A Phantom Russian Poet: Vladimir Nabokov’s Poetics and Position in the Late 1930s – Early 1950s"
22. Masataka Konishi (Tokyo Gakugei University), "Nabokov's Paradox"
10:30 – 12:00 Presentations
23. Stephen Blackwell (University of Tennessee), "Nabokov’s (Dostoevskian?) Loop- holes"
24. Yuri Leving (Dalhouse University), "Nabokov and Hemingway: The Fish That Got Away"
25. Sam Schuman (University of Minnesota), "‘The Sun’s a Thief’: Nabokov and Shakespeare – A Quantitative Approach"
Keynote Speaker:
(17:30 – 18:30) Michael Wood, “The Afterlife of Sebastian Knight”