In 2020 Russian Literature Week by READ RUSSIA will be entirely online with a mix of live readings, presentations, documentary films and pre-recorded video talks. This year’s theme is Reading Russian Literature During Hard Times.
The live events on Zoom will feature authors and translators in discussion, and the pre-recorded talks will feature contemporary Russian authors surveying the Russian literary scene.
Please note that the Zoom events will start on time; the YouTube links are live and playing all week.
Russian Literature Week is free and open to all.
Monday, December 7, 2020
12:00 PM EST – Antony Wood “On Reading and Translating Pushkin”
Zoom invitation: https://zoom.us/j/96387442066
5:00 PM EST – FILM/VIDEO SCREENING: “Mayakovsky Forever”
From Russia’s Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum, based on the exhibition “Twenty Years of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Work,” installed in 1930. Film provided courtesy of the Vladimir Dahl State Literary Museum ( https://goslitmuz.ru/)
Watch on YouTube here, https://youtu.be/APqlxlb20Vs
In Russian with English subtitles (30 mins)
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
12:00 PM EST – Donald Rayfield “Rehabilitating Leskov”
Zoom invitation: https://zoom.us/j/96697042586
5:00 PM EST – FILM/VIDEO SCREENING: Author and literature professor Andrei Astvatsaturov surveys today’s literary scene in Russia and speaks to emerging themes and trends among leading writers. Recorded in 2020. Courtesy of Read Russia and the Institute of Translation in Moscow.
Watch on YouTube here, https://youtu.be/6tge8p391sY
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
11:00 AM EST – Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro “Mikhail Bakhtin, Isaiah Berlin, and the Need for Dialogue”
Zoom invitation: https://zoom.us/j/98531198735
12:00 PM EST – Robert Chandler “Vasily Grossman and Andrey Platonov among ‘Animals and Plants’”
Zoom invitation: https://zoom.us/j/91981940192
2:00 PM EST – Lisa Hayden and Carol Apollonio “Reading Russian Literature During Hard Times”
Zoom invitation: https://zoom.us/j/95513066391
5:00 PM EST – FILM/VIDEO SCREENING: Author, editor, critic, and publisher Vadim Levental tells it like it is about the Russian classics. Recorded in 2020. Courtesy of Read Russia and the Institute of Translation in Moscow.
Watch on YouTube here, https://youtu.be/IsXAtT4Mu2c
Thursday, December 10, 2020
12:00 PM EST – READ RUSSIA PRIZE jury members Bryan Karetnyk, Muireann Maguire, and Anastasia Tolstoy discuss the 2020 READ RUSSIA PRIZE
Zoom invitation: https://zoom.us/j/94201061629
5:00 PM EST – FILM/VIDEO SCREENING: Author German Sadulaev on Russian writers (and sex) and writing (bestsellers) in the 1990s and 2000s. Recorded in 2020. Courtesy of Read Russia and the Institute of Translation in Moscow.
Watch on YouTube here, https://youtu.be/QXQhyEKMf8k
Friday, December 11, 2020
12:00 PM – Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming, & Maxim Osipov “Contemporary Literary & Medical Responses to the Pandemic”
Zoom invitation: https://zoom.us/j/97537264802
5:00 PM EST – FILM/VIDEO SCREENING: Author and translator Andrei Gelasimov – on Russian literature as superweapons and more. Recorded in 2020. Courtesy of Read Russia and the Institute of Translation in Moscow.
Watch on YouTube here, https://youtu.be/wTbmFPvrnsw
