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"Editing the Soviet Underground" the Fifty-Third Conference on Editorial Problems,
convened by Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto),
will be held on Friday, 20 November and Saturday, 21 November 2019.
Overview
Editing Samizdat – texts created for underground circulation in the USSR
after Stalin – meant running certain risks. Of course, the spread of
socio-political writing could provoke repressive measures; however, this
conference focuses on the threats faced by those dealing with the
literary and artistic texts of Samizdat. These threats – sometimes
reflected in the material character of the editions – related to
cultural loss, destruction of texts and the uncertain status of
unofficial cultural values. Moreover, while Samizdat editors, like
authors and artists, worked outside and sometimes against official
Soviet institutions and norms, many used official connections and
resources to realize their agenda (that was, for example, how we possess
a transcript of Joseph Brodsky's trial for social parasitism). The
surreptitious nature of cultural production in the late Soviet
underground raises fascinating questions about the editing and
distribution of Samizdat. For details click: here.
Conference Program
There is no registration fee.
For details about the conference, please contact
Ann Komaromi.
WEDNESDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2019
Introdcutory Remarks
9:00 – 9:45 am: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
• Chair, Conference on Editorial Problems: Welcoming Remarks
• Ann Komaromi: "Samizdat: Extra-Gutenberg Publishing from the Soviet Underground to the Digital Age"
• Catherine Ciepela: "Rosmaryne, of vertu good and fyne: The Text of a Verse Treatise and Its Manuscript Contexts"
PANEL 1: Digitalizing the Underground
10:00 – 11:30 am: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Chair: Luiza Moshkin, University of Toronto, Slavic Department
• Martha M. F. Kelly: "Making olgasedakova.com and a 2010 Four-Volume Collected Works"
• Veronika Korchagina: "Moscow Archive of New Art: Electronic Edition"
• Margaryta Golovchenko: "Samizdat Art Periodicals as Public History"
PANEL 2: Editing and Audiences
2:00 – 3:30 pm: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Chair: Alex Moshkin, University of Toronto, Centre for Comparative Literature
• Valentina Parisi: "Editions of Evgeniia Ginzburg's Memoirs at Mondadori Publishers"
• Rebekah Smith: "Considering Forms: Publishing Ry Nikonova in English"
• Josephine von Zitzewitz: "Editing Samizdat Journals"
PANEL 3: Crossing Borders
3:45 – 5:15 pm: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Chair: Margaryta Golovchenko, York University, Art History Department
• Yasha Klots: "Censorship without Shores: Shalamov's 'Cherry Brandy' in Tamizdat"
• Rebekah Smith: "Soviet Nonconformist Art for International Audiences: the Émigré journal A-Ja"
• Luiza Moshkin: "Blurring the Lines: Vladimir Vysotsky Between Official and Unofficial Soviet Culture"
READING AND ROUNDTABLE: Translation and Performance
3:45 – 5:15 pm: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Chair: Margaryta Golovchenko, York University, Art History Department
• Yelena Kalinsky: "Selections from Monastyrski"
• Ainsley Morse, Bela Shayevich: "Selections from Nekrasov"
• Simon Schuchat: "Selections from Dmitri Prigov"
• Rebekah Smith: "The Performance of Publishing at Ugly Duckling Presse"
THURSDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2019
PANEL 4: From Avant-Garde to Underground
10:00 – 11:30 am: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Chair: Olga Khometa, University of Toronto, Slavic Department
• Ilja Kukuj: "Filling the Empty Page: The Case of Vasilisk Gnedov"
• Ainsley Morse: "All & Any: Vsevolod Nekrasov's Textual Variations"
• Yelena Kalinsky: "Archiving the Unofficial Art World: The MANI papki and the MANI Circle"
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
12:00 – 1:30 am: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Chair: Ann Komaromi, University of Toronto, Slavic Department
• Paolo Mancosu: "Six Typescripts in Search of a Publisher: Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and the Source of the CIA (Mouton) Edition"
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