Nemirovsky Summer School and Academic Studies Press present
David Bethea
Thinking About and Teaching Russian Literature in the Era of Change: A New Approach
When: March 18th, 2024, 12 p.m. (EST)
Where: Online. The event is online and open to the public.
To participate, please, register: link
The Nemirovsky Summer School To Reason Russia from the Mind and Academic Studies Press invite you to the school’s Opening lecture by David Bethea. Dr. Bethea’s talk is titled Thinking About and Teaching Russian Literature in the Era of Change: A New Approach, and will take place online, on March 18th, 2024, at 12 p.m. (EST). Link to register
This lecture will open a series of public readings under a unified motto Russian Culture in the Era of Change. The series is aimed at developing and presenting a new approach to how we define, accept, and study the complexity of cultural, political, and historical elements of Russian heritage in the changing world.
David M. Bethea is the Vilas Research Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former Fellow of Wadham College and Professor of Russian Studies at Oxford University. He is an international authority on major literary figures Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Nabokov, and Joseph Brodsky. He has also written broadly on Russian thought and cultural mythology. His publications number 6 original books, 7 edited volumes, and more than 100 essays in scholarly journals and media outlets, and have been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, the ACLS, and the New York Times. In 2003 his professional scholarly community (AATSEEL) awarded him a lifetime achievement award for “Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship.” His most recent book, about which he will speak, is The Pushkin Project: Russia’s Favorite Writer, Modern Evolutionary Thought, and Teaching Inner-City Youth (Academic, Studies Press, 2023). Bethea founded the Pushkin Summer Institute in 2012 and currently serves as its academic director.
Nemirovsky Summer School is a new, exciting opportunity to study Russian language from June 10 to July 19, 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia. Fedor Tiutchev, the renowned nineteenth-century Russian poet, defined his relationship to Russia as follows: “Russia cannot be reasoned from the mind / nor measured on a common scale.” The realities of our time precludes us from the luxury of “not reasoning Russia from the mind.” We must strive towards this goal, and such is the objective of our summer school on Russian language and culture, which will take place in the rich multicultural atmosphere of beautiful Tallinn from June 10 to July 19, 2024.
Summer School Info
Place: Tallinn, Estonia
When: June 10 – July 19, 2024
Registration deadline: May 1st, 2024
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