{"id":8618,"date":"2020-12-07T14:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T14:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2020-12-08T00:27:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T00:27:23","slug":"russian-literature-week-2020-7-11-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/russian-literature-week-2020-7-11-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Literature Week 2020\u00a0– 7-11\u00a0December"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2020 Russian Literature Week by READ RUSSIA<\/strong> will be entirely online with a mix of live readings, presentations, documentary films and pre-recorded video talks. This year\u2019s theme is Reading Russian Literature During Hard Times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Please note that the Zoom events will start on time; the YouTube links are live and playing all week.<\/p>\n

Russian Literature Week is free and open to all.<\/p>\n

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Monday, December 7, 2020<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

12:00 PM EST \u2013 Antony Wood \u201cOn Reading and Translating Pushkin\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoom invitation:\u00a0 https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/96387442066<\/a><\/p>\n

5:00 PM EST \u2013 FILM\/VIDEO SCREENING: \u201cMayakovsky Forever\u201d
\n<\/strong>From Russia\u2019s Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum, based on the exhibition \u201cTwenty Years of Vladimir Mayakovsky\u2019s Work,\u201d installed in 1930.\u00a0 Film provided courtesy of the Vladimir Dahl State Literary Museum (\u00a0https:\/\/goslitmuz.ru\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Watch on YouTube here, https:\/\/youtu.be\/APqlxlb20Vs<\/a><\/p>\n

In Russian with English subtitles (30 mins)<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

12:00 PM EST \u2013 Donald Rayfield\u00a0\u201cRehabilitating Leskov\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoom invitation: https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/96697042586<\/a><\/p>\n

5:00 PM EST \u2013 FILM\/VIDEO SCREENING<\/strong>: Author and literature professor Andrei Astvatsaturov<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Watch on YouTube here, https:\/\/youtu.be\/6tge8p391sY<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00 AM EST \u2013 Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro \u201cMikhail Bakhtin, Isaiah Berlin, and the Need for Dialogue\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoom invitation: https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/98531198735<\/a><\/p>\n

12:00 PM EST \u2013 Robert Chandler \u201cVasily Grossman and Andrey Platonov among \u2018Animals and Plants\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoom invitation: https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/91981940192<\/a><\/p>\n

2:00 PM EST \u2013 Lisa Hayden and Carol Apollonio \u201cReading Russian Literature During Hard Times\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoom invitation: https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/95513066391<\/a><\/p>\n

5:00 PM EST \u2013 FILM\/VIDEO SCREENING:<\/strong> Author, editor, critic, and publisher Vadim Levental<\/strong> tells it like it is about the Russian classics.\u00a0 Recorded in 2020. Courtesy of Read Russia and the Institute of Translation in Moscow.<\/p>\n

Watch on YouTube here, https:\/\/youtu.be\/IsXAtT4Mu2c<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thursday, December 10, 2020\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

12:00 PM EST \u2013 READ RUSSIA PRIZE jury members Bryan Karetnyk, Muireann Maguire, and Anastasia Tolstoy discuss the 2020 READ RUSSIA PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoom invitation:\u00a0https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/94201061629<\/a><\/p>\n

5:00 PM EST \u2013 FILM\/VIDEO SCREENING<\/strong>: Author German Sadulaev<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Watch on YouTube here, https:\/\/youtu.be\/QXQhyEKMf8k<\/a><\/p>\n

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Friday, December 11, 2020<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

12:00 PM \u2013 Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming, & Maxim Osipov \u201cContemporary Literary & Medical Responses to the Pandemic\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoom invitation: https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/97537264802<\/a><\/p>\n

5:00 PM EST \u2013 FILM\/VIDEO SCREENING<\/strong>: Author and translator Andrei Gelasimov<\/strong> – on Russian literature as superweapons and more.\u00a0 Recorded in 2020. Courtesy of Read Russia and the Institute of Translation in Moscow.<\/p>\n

Watch on YouTube here, https:\/\/youtu.be\/wTbmFPvrnsw<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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