CONFERENCE PAPERS AND GUEST LECTURES
(over 50 talks presented internationally)
Invited guest lectures
“Nabokov and the American Readership in the 1960s,” guest lecture at Tokyo University. 7 May, 2013.
“Diver in Russian Poetry,” guest lecture at Hokkaido University, Sapporo. 2 May, 2013.
“The Eye-deology of Trauma: Killing Anna Karenina Softly,” guest lecture at Kyoto University. 30 April, 2013.
“Diver in Russian Poetry,” guest lecture at the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages, Stanford University. December 5, 2012.
“Nabokov and Playboy,” guest lecture at the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages, University of Southern California. November 30, 2012.
“Nabokov, Playboy, and the America of the 1960s,” guest lecture at the Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. April 18, 2012.
“Joseph Brodsky: An Immodest Proposal” (Screening from the documentary in progress), Salt Lake City Film Society, Utah. Lecture and feature presentation at the 300-seat Tower Movie Theater. April 1, 2011.
“Mafia and the Art House Cinema in Russia: From Petr Buslov’s BIMMER-2 to CRASH: Five Stories about Love,” guest lecture at Utah Valley University, March 31, 2011.
“Approaches to Close Reading of Nabokov’s The Gift: The Novel’s Debut,” Guest lecture at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Tokyo University, Japan. March 29, 2010.
“Using technology in education,” Guest presentation at CNLT 5000: Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, course taught by Dr. Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, Associate Director, Centre for Learning and Teaching, Killam Memorial Library, Dalhousie University, March 18, 2010.
“Russian Conflict with Chechnya and Georgia since the Fall of the Soviet Union.” Guest lecture for Dalhousie Department of Theatre students staging The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play by Bertolt Brecht. Dir. by Margot Dionne. David MacK. Murray Theatre, Halifax, NS. January 12, 2009.
“Communism, Messiah, and the Miracles of Freedom.” Guest lecture, Oxford University Chabad Society. Oxford, 6 July, 2007.
“Anna Karenina’s Suicide on the Silver Screen.” Guest lecture, Russian Studies Department, Macalester College, Minnesota. October 17, 2005.
“‘Neither Fiery Serpent nor Steaming Steed’: The Mythology of Locomotion in Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry.” Guest lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. February 19, 2005.
“How Do They Kill Her? Cinematic Representations of Anna Karenina’s Suicide.” Guest lecture, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. February 14, 2005.
“Divers and Submarines: The Underwater World of Russian Symbolism and Early Soviet Poetry,” Guest lecture at the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, Los Angeles. April 23, 2004.
Conference presentations
“French Theory, Russian Legacy: Reading Nabokov with Pierre Bourdieu,” International Conference of the Société Française Vladimir Nabokov, “Vladimir Nabokov et la France / Vladimir Nabokov and France,” Paris, France, May 30–June 1, 2013.
“The Eye-deology of Trauma: Killing Anna Karenina Softly,” Adaptation: Russian Text into Film, International Conference at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 9-11 May, 2013.
“Selling Concubines: What Is Russian Lolita Face?” Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), New Orleans, November 18, 2012.
“The Upside of Wearing Bunny Ears: The History of Nabokov and Playboy,” Nabokov Upside International Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 12-15 January, 2012.
“Nabokov in 3-D: Digital, Dioramic, Diegetic,” ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington, DC. November 15-18, 2011.
“The Writer as His Own Literary Agent (Vladimir Nabokov and his Publishers),” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. January 5-7, 2011.
“From Lausanne to Montreux: Hemingway and Nabokov,” The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society Fourteenth Biennial International Conference - “Hemingway’s Extreme Geographies,” Lausanne, Switzerland, 27 June – 1 July, 2010.
“Reputation in Fragments: Nabokov’s Last Incomplete Novel The Original of Laura.” Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Meeting, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal. May 28-30, 2010.
“Europe in Transit: Nabokov’s Last Russian Masterpiece, The Gift (1934-39),” Dalhousie University, Faculty-wide lecture; short-listed candidate for the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in European Studies position. April 13, 2010.
“Nabokov and Hemingway: The Fish That Got Away,” The International Nabokov Conference, Kyoto, Japan. March 24-27, 2010.
“‘The book is dazzlingly brilliant… but’: The Critical Reception of Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 41st National Convention, Boston, MA. November 12-15, 2009.
“Mr. Twister in the Land of Bolsheviks:” The Ideology of Laughter and Auto-Censorship in Marshak’s Poem. Totalitarian Laughter: Cultures of the Comic under Socialism, Interdisciplinary conference, Princeton University. May 15-17, 2009.
“Interpreting Voids: Vladimir Nabokov’s Unfinished Novel The Original of Laura.” AATSEEL Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. December 29, 2008.
“The Big Bang”: From Creation to Creativity.” The Scientific and Cultural Mythology of the Tunguska Event,” Federal Siberian University, Krasnoyarsk. June 28-30, 2008.
“‘Like rising bread forgotten by the baker…’ (Early Critical Responses to V. Nabokov’s The Gift).” Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Congress. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. May 31 – June 2, 2008.
“Reflections on Crisis, Change and Conscience in Russian Literature.” Panel Chair. Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Congress. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. May 31 – June 2, 2008.
“Evolution of the Text: From Manuscript to Publication (Nabokov’s The Gift).” The Monday Research Seminar Series in Russian studies. Dalhousie University, March 10, 2008.
“‘Mercurial glitter, quicksilver rhythms’: Nabokov’s and Rachmaninoff’s
Unrealized Projects.” FASS Crosscurrents Panel: Music and Literature. Hosted by the Department of Music. Dalhousie University, January 31, 2008.
“Reading as Challenge: On Textological Problems and Literary Commentary to Nabokov’s The Gift.” AATSEEL, Chicago. December 27-30, 2007.
“Institutional Spaces in Soviet Culture,” Panel Discussant. AATSEEL, Chicago. December 27-30, 2007.
“Text to Music: Nabokov and Rachmaninoff.” Transitional Nabokov. Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, 7 July, 2007.
“Antipathy with History (The Nabokovs and Suvorins in Life and Prose).” International Conference “Nabokov and Literature of Russian Emigration”, Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg, 2005, July 21-24.
“Marketing Lolita: Light Images, Dark PR.” Symposium Nabokov’s LOLITA: 1955–2005. Celebrating 50 years. The Gelman Library, Washington, D.C. 2005, May 5.
“Higher and Higher! Aviation in Russian Poetry of the early 20th Century,” AATSEEL, Philadelphia. 2004, December 27.
“Iron Birds Fight Gravitation: Airplanes in Russian Poetry, 1910-1920s,” California Slavic Colloquium, UCLA, Los Angeles. 2004, April 24.
“A Writer on Trial: The Institutional Persecution of Literature (The Case of Vladimir Sorokin).” AATSEEL, San Diego. 2003, December 27-30.
“The Everyday Petersburg in Alexander Benois’ 1917 Diary,” Image of St. Petersburg in the World Cultures: An International Conference devoted to the 300-years anniversary of St. Petersburg, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii dom), St. Petersburg, Russia. 2003, June 30 – July 3.
“Twirl of Mirror Darkness”: Nabokov and Visual Poetics of the Text. AATSEEL, New York. 2002, December 27-30.
“Metaphysics of the Garage: Nabokov’s Automobile Aesthetics,” International Vladimir Nabokov Symposium, Nabokov State Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. 2002, July 15-18.
“Filming Nabokov: On Visual Poetics of the Text,” International conference “Screening the Word: Visual Adaptations of Literature in Russian and Soviet Culture,” University of Surrey, England. 2002, May 28-30.
“The Other God, The Other Sex: O. Mandel’shtam’s He Who Found a Horseshoe,” California Slavic Colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford. 2002, April 6-7.
“Russian Audio-Culture: Text and Music in the 1980-1990s,” Panel on Russian Culture, University of Southern California. 2002, March 28.
“Modernist Movements and Byzantine Art,” International Symposium in Greece, Thessalonica. Workshop and Seminar. State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greek Ministry of Culture, Greece. 2002, March 11-16.
“Pushkin and Nabokov the Artists,” International conference “A. S. Pushkin and V. V. Nabokov.” Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii dom), Pushkinskaia komissiia RAN, Nabokovskii fond, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1999, April 15-18.
“Towards the Semantics of Statue in Poetics of Aleksandr Pushkin and Josef Brodsky.” Pushkin’s Readings. The Library of Zionist Forum, Jerusalem. 1999, June 22.
“History of Creation of the Slavic Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,” International conference “Russian Jews in Palestine / Israel,” Academic Center Russian Jewry Abroad, Jerusalem. 1998, June 17-19.
“Russian Literature after the Fall of Communism,” International conference, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Discussion panel. 1998, March, 29 – April, 2.
“V. Nabokov and Jerusalem. The History ofd an Unrealized Visit.” The World Congress “Jerusalem in Slavic Cultures and Religious Traditions.” The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. 1996, December 10.
(over 50 talks presented internationally)
Invited guest lectures
“Nabokov and the American Readership in the 1960s,” guest lecture at Tokyo University. 7 May, 2013.
“Diver in Russian Poetry,” guest lecture at Hokkaido University, Sapporo. 2 May, 2013.
“The Eye-deology of Trauma: Killing Anna Karenina Softly,” guest lecture at Kyoto University. 30 April, 2013.
“Diver in Russian Poetry,” guest lecture at the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages, Stanford University. December 5, 2012.
“Nabokov and Playboy,” guest lecture at the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages, University of Southern California. November 30, 2012.
“Nabokov, Playboy, and the America of the 1960s,” guest lecture at the Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. April 18, 2012.
“Joseph Brodsky: An Immodest Proposal” (Screening from the documentary in progress), Salt Lake City Film Society, Utah. Lecture and feature presentation at the 300-seat Tower Movie Theater. April 1, 2011.
“Mafia and the Art House Cinema in Russia: From Petr Buslov’s BIMMER-2 to CRASH: Five Stories about Love,” guest lecture at Utah Valley University, March 31, 2011.
“Approaches to Close Reading of Nabokov’s The Gift: The Novel’s Debut,” Guest lecture at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Tokyo University, Japan. March 29, 2010.
“Using technology in education,” Guest presentation at CNLT 5000: Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, course taught by Dr. Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, Associate Director, Centre for Learning and Teaching, Killam Memorial Library, Dalhousie University, March 18, 2010.
“Russian Conflict with Chechnya and Georgia since the Fall of the Soviet Union.” Guest lecture for Dalhousie Department of Theatre students staging The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play by Bertolt Brecht. Dir. by Margot Dionne. David MacK. Murray Theatre, Halifax, NS. January 12, 2009.
“Communism, Messiah, and the Miracles of Freedom.” Guest lecture, Oxford University Chabad Society. Oxford, 6 July, 2007.
“Anna Karenina’s Suicide on the Silver Screen.” Guest lecture, Russian Studies Department, Macalester College, Minnesota. October 17, 2005.
“‘Neither Fiery Serpent nor Steaming Steed’: The Mythology of Locomotion in Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry.” Guest lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. February 19, 2005.
“How Do They Kill Her? Cinematic Representations of Anna Karenina’s Suicide.” Guest lecture, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. February 14, 2005.
“Divers and Submarines: The Underwater World of Russian Symbolism and Early Soviet Poetry,” Guest lecture at the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, Los Angeles. April 23, 2004.
Conference presentations
“French Theory, Russian Legacy: Reading Nabokov with Pierre Bourdieu,” International Conference of the Société Française Vladimir Nabokov, “Vladimir Nabokov et la France / Vladimir Nabokov and France,” Paris, France, May 30–June 1, 2013.
“The Eye-deology of Trauma: Killing Anna Karenina Softly,” Adaptation: Russian Text into Film, International Conference at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 9-11 May, 2013.
“Selling Concubines: What Is Russian Lolita Face?” Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), New Orleans, November 18, 2012.
“The Upside of Wearing Bunny Ears: The History of Nabokov and Playboy,” Nabokov Upside International Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 12-15 January, 2012.
“Nabokov in 3-D: Digital, Dioramic, Diegetic,” ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington, DC. November 15-18, 2011.
“The Writer as His Own Literary Agent (Vladimir Nabokov and his Publishers),” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. January 5-7, 2011.
“From Lausanne to Montreux: Hemingway and Nabokov,” The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society Fourteenth Biennial International Conference - “Hemingway’s Extreme Geographies,” Lausanne, Switzerland, 27 June – 1 July, 2010.
“Reputation in Fragments: Nabokov’s Last Incomplete Novel The Original of Laura.” Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Meeting, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal. May 28-30, 2010.
“Europe in Transit: Nabokov’s Last Russian Masterpiece, The Gift (1934-39),” Dalhousie University, Faculty-wide lecture; short-listed candidate for the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in European Studies position. April 13, 2010.
“Nabokov and Hemingway: The Fish That Got Away,” The International Nabokov Conference, Kyoto, Japan. March 24-27, 2010.
“‘The book is dazzlingly brilliant… but’: The Critical Reception of Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 41st National Convention, Boston, MA. November 12-15, 2009.
“Mr. Twister in the Land of Bolsheviks:” The Ideology of Laughter and Auto-Censorship in Marshak’s Poem. Totalitarian Laughter: Cultures of the Comic under Socialism, Interdisciplinary conference, Princeton University. May 15-17, 2009.
“Interpreting Voids: Vladimir Nabokov’s Unfinished Novel The Original of Laura.” AATSEEL Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. December 29, 2008.
“The Big Bang”: From Creation to Creativity.” The Scientific and Cultural Mythology of the Tunguska Event,” Federal Siberian University, Krasnoyarsk. June 28-30, 2008.
“‘Like rising bread forgotten by the baker…’ (Early Critical Responses to V. Nabokov’s The Gift).” Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Congress. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. May 31 – June 2, 2008.
“Reflections on Crisis, Change and Conscience in Russian Literature.” Panel Chair. Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Congress. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. May 31 – June 2, 2008.
“Evolution of the Text: From Manuscript to Publication (Nabokov’s The Gift).” The Monday Research Seminar Series in Russian studies. Dalhousie University, March 10, 2008.
“‘Mercurial glitter, quicksilver rhythms’: Nabokov’s and Rachmaninoff’s
Unrealized Projects.” FASS Crosscurrents Panel: Music and Literature. Hosted by the Department of Music. Dalhousie University, January 31, 2008.
“Reading as Challenge: On Textological Problems and Literary Commentary to Nabokov’s The Gift.” AATSEEL, Chicago. December 27-30, 2007.
“Institutional Spaces in Soviet Culture,” Panel Discussant. AATSEEL, Chicago. December 27-30, 2007.
“Text to Music: Nabokov and Rachmaninoff.” Transitional Nabokov. Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, 7 July, 2007.
“Antipathy with History (The Nabokovs and Suvorins in Life and Prose).” International Conference “Nabokov and Literature of Russian Emigration”, Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg, 2005, July 21-24.
“Marketing Lolita: Light Images, Dark PR.” Symposium Nabokov’s LOLITA: 1955–2005. Celebrating 50 years. The Gelman Library, Washington, D.C. 2005, May 5.
“Higher and Higher! Aviation in Russian Poetry of the early 20th Century,” AATSEEL, Philadelphia. 2004, December 27.
“Iron Birds Fight Gravitation: Airplanes in Russian Poetry, 1910-1920s,” California Slavic Colloquium, UCLA, Los Angeles. 2004, April 24.
“A Writer on Trial: The Institutional Persecution of Literature (The Case of Vladimir Sorokin).” AATSEEL, San Diego. 2003, December 27-30.
“The Everyday Petersburg in Alexander Benois’ 1917 Diary,” Image of St. Petersburg in the World Cultures: An International Conference devoted to the 300-years anniversary of St. Petersburg, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii dom), St. Petersburg, Russia. 2003, June 30 – July 3.
“Twirl of Mirror Darkness”: Nabokov and Visual Poetics of the Text. AATSEEL, New York. 2002, December 27-30.
“Metaphysics of the Garage: Nabokov’s Automobile Aesthetics,” International Vladimir Nabokov Symposium, Nabokov State Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. 2002, July 15-18.
“Filming Nabokov: On Visual Poetics of the Text,” International conference “Screening the Word: Visual Adaptations of Literature in Russian and Soviet Culture,” University of Surrey, England. 2002, May 28-30.
“The Other God, The Other Sex: O. Mandel’shtam’s He Who Found a Horseshoe,” California Slavic Colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford. 2002, April 6-7.
“Russian Audio-Culture: Text and Music in the 1980-1990s,” Panel on Russian Culture, University of Southern California. 2002, March 28.
“Modernist Movements and Byzantine Art,” International Symposium in Greece, Thessalonica. Workshop and Seminar. State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greek Ministry of Culture, Greece. 2002, March 11-16.
“Pushkin and Nabokov the Artists,” International conference “A. S. Pushkin and V. V. Nabokov.” Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii dom), Pushkinskaia komissiia RAN, Nabokovskii fond, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1999, April 15-18.
“Towards the Semantics of Statue in Poetics of Aleksandr Pushkin and Josef Brodsky.” Pushkin’s Readings. The Library of Zionist Forum, Jerusalem. 1999, June 22.
“History of Creation of the Slavic Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,” International conference “Russian Jews in Palestine / Israel,” Academic Center Russian Jewry Abroad, Jerusalem. 1998, June 17-19.
“Russian Literature after the Fall of Communism,” International conference, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Discussion panel. 1998, March, 29 – April, 2.
“V. Nabokov and Jerusalem. The History ofd an Unrealized Visit.” The World Congress “Jerusalem in Slavic Cultures and Religious Traditions.” The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. 1996, December 10.