BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Sense of Place lecture series: "Ways of seeing: Vladimir Korolenko
 ’s Volga sketches" - Jane Costlow\, Bates College
DTSTART:20160218T173000Z
DTEND:20160218T190000Z
UID:TALK62940@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:21355
DESCRIPTION:This presentation considers the sketches (both drawn and writt
 en) of one of pre-revolutionary Russia’s great writers and public figure
 s.  Korolenko lived for over a decade in Nizhnii Novgorod\, a great market
  city on the central Volga\; during that period he wrote extensively about
  his exploration (by boat and on foot) of the region.  Korolenko was a mor
 e than capable draughtsman\, and his notebooks contain pencil renderings o
 f various sites along the river.  His scientific education\, his practice 
 as an artist\, and his many accounts of what he saw along the shores of th
 e Volga all present intriguing examples of a talented writer/artist thinki
 ng about what John Berger has called “ways of seeing.”  I will conside
 r Korolenko’s sketches against the background of powerful associations o
 f the Volga with Russian national identity – but also as a body of work 
 that ruminates on what it means to see and then represent place.\n\nJane C
 ostlow is the Clifford A. Griffiths Professor of Environmental Studies at 
 Bates College in Lewiston\, Maine USA.  Her scholarly work has focused pri
 marily on 19th century Russian literature and visual culture\, ranging fro
 m the novels of Ivan Turgenev to writing by Russian women writers and repr
 esentations of the bear in late Imperial culture.  Recent publications inc
 lude Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the 19th century Forest (Corne
 ll 2013)\, which won the 2014 USC book prize in literary and cultural stud
 ies\; and\, with Amy Nelson\, Other Animals: Beyond the Human in Russian C
 ulture and History (Pittsburgh\, 2010). At Bates she teaches courses in En
 vironmental Humanities and Russian literature. Interests reflected in rece
 nt papers and conference presentations include disaster narratives in film
  and oral history\, the films of Larisa Shepitko\, and sacred springs in t
 he Orel region.  Her translation of Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal’s The Tragic
  Menagerie received the AATSEEL prize for best translation in 1999.  She i
 s currently working on a translation of Korolenko's Volga Sketches.\n
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College\, Cambridge
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
