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Konstantin Vaginov at 125: “Goat Song” and Beyond

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Registration REQUIRED by 12pm on February 7, 2025 in order to attend this event.

Please join the Harriman Institute at Columbia University for an international symposium dedicated to the publication of all Vaginov’s (1888-1934) novels in English translation. Organized by Ainsley Morse (University of California-San Diego) and Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University).

Program

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Panel 1: Vaginov’s Novels

Moderator: Irina Reyfman (Columbia University)

  • Vaginov’s Emplotments and Decadent Collections
    • Polina Barskova (University of California-Berkeley)
  • Reading Vaginov: Philostratus and the Renaissance Pastoral in The Goat Song
    • Eugene Ostashevsky (New York University)
  • Between Two Authors: Narrative Tension in Vaginov’s The Goat Song
    • Ben Hooyman (New York)
  • Toward a Soviet Biedermeier: Vaginov’s NEP Poetics
    • Ivan Sokolov (University of California-Berkeley)

1:30 – 3:30 PM | Panel 2: Beyond Novels

Moderator: Yulia Kim (Columbia University)

  • «Семечки» Вагинова как сдача и гибель советской интеллигенции
    • Gleb Morev
  • The Unknown Poet in a Ballet Tutu: Vaginov in the 1980s-1990s
    • Dmitri Bresler
  • Sacrificial Profanations of Konstantin Vaginov’s Poetry
    • Igor Gulin

4:00 – 5:30 PM | Roundtable: Vaginov in English

Moderator: Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University)

  • Edwin Frank (NYRB Press)
  • Ainsley Morse (University of California-San Diego)
  • Geoff Cebula
  • Eugene Ostashevsky
  • Polina Barskova

Working languages: English and Russian * Open to the public (with registration)

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