Truths and Fictions: Two Centuries of Scottish-Russian Encounters Image This one-day symposium, the third in a series organised by the 'Scotland and Russia: Cultural Encounters Since 1900' Project, explored the history of Scottish-Russian cultural exchange and influence. For the first time, it also looked at the nineteenth-century roots of twentieth-century perceptions across a range of talks on literature, translation, performance and revolutionary politics. Keynote speakers included Dr Dmitry Fedosov of the Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences and Billy Kay, producer of 'The Scots in Russia' series for BBC Radio Scotland. The symposium was sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Centre for Global History at the University of Dundee Event recordings Audio recordings of the event are now available: HTML Programme Time Title Speaker 10:00-10:05 Welcome 10:05-11:05 Keynote 1 ‘Recording Russia’s Scots’ Billy Kay (Producer of ‘The Scots in Russia’ series for BBC Radio Scotland) 11:05-11:30 Coffee 11:30-13:00 Panel 1: The Scots Encounter the Russians ‘A “great friend of mine and of Tolstoy”: Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s Encounter with Tolstoy and Tolstoyans’ Lindy Moore (Independent Scholar) ‘J. M. Barrie and the Ballets Russes’ Olga Sobolev (LSE) ‘Aberdeen and the Russian Revolution’ Paul Dukes (Aberdeen) 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Keynote 2 ‘The Silver Age in the Scotland-Russia Story, 1900-1917’ Dmitry Fedosov (Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences) 15:00-15:30 Coffee 15:30-16:30 Panel 2: The Russian Encounter with Robert Burns ‘Translations of Robert Burns’s Poetry in the Soviet Union: Samuil Marshak and his Burns’ Natalia Kaloh Vid (University of Maribor, Slovenia) ‘New Translations of Robert Burns in 21st Century Russia’ Olga Ushakova (Tyumen State University, Russia) 16:30-17:30 Panel 3: Reading Across Borders - The Case of Stevenson and Dostoevsky ‘Influence without Anxiety: Stevenson Reading Dostoevsky (Reading Hugo)’ Alastair Renfrew (Durham) ‘The Shadow Double and the Law: Stevenson, Nabokov and Dostoevsky’ Rose France (Edinburgh) 19:00 Dinner Image Document Truths and Fictions - programme (152.43 KB / PDF) Jun 20 2016 00.00 - 00.00 Truths and Fictions: Two Centuries of Scottish-Russian Encounters This one-day symposium, the third in a series organised by the 'Scotland and Russia: Cultural Encounters Since 1900' Project, explored the history of Scottish-Russian cultural exchange and influence. Dalhousie Building (room 2S17) University of Dundee Old Hawkhill Dundee DD1 5EN Find the venue
Truths and Fictions: Two Centuries of Scottish-Russian Encounters Image This one-day symposium, the third in a series organised by the 'Scotland and Russia: Cultural Encounters Since 1900' Project, explored the history of Scottish-Russian cultural exchange and influence. For the first time, it also looked at the nineteenth-century roots of twentieth-century perceptions across a range of talks on literature, translation, performance and revolutionary politics. Keynote speakers included Dr Dmitry Fedosov of the Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences and Billy Kay, producer of 'The Scots in Russia' series for BBC Radio Scotland. The symposium was sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Centre for Global History at the University of Dundee Event recordings Audio recordings of the event are now available: HTML Programme Time Title Speaker 10:00-10:05 Welcome 10:05-11:05 Keynote 1 ‘Recording Russia’s Scots’ Billy Kay (Producer of ‘The Scots in Russia’ series for BBC Radio Scotland) 11:05-11:30 Coffee 11:30-13:00 Panel 1: The Scots Encounter the Russians ‘A “great friend of mine and of Tolstoy”: Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s Encounter with Tolstoy and Tolstoyans’ Lindy Moore (Independent Scholar) ‘J. M. Barrie and the Ballets Russes’ Olga Sobolev (LSE) ‘Aberdeen and the Russian Revolution’ Paul Dukes (Aberdeen) 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Keynote 2 ‘The Silver Age in the Scotland-Russia Story, 1900-1917’ Dmitry Fedosov (Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences) 15:00-15:30 Coffee 15:30-16:30 Panel 2: The Russian Encounter with Robert Burns ‘Translations of Robert Burns’s Poetry in the Soviet Union: Samuil Marshak and his Burns’ Natalia Kaloh Vid (University of Maribor, Slovenia) ‘New Translations of Robert Burns in 21st Century Russia’ Olga Ushakova (Tyumen State University, Russia) 16:30-17:30 Panel 3: Reading Across Borders - The Case of Stevenson and Dostoevsky ‘Influence without Anxiety: Stevenson Reading Dostoevsky (Reading Hugo)’ Alastair Renfrew (Durham) ‘The Shadow Double and the Law: Stevenson, Nabokov and Dostoevsky’ Rose France (Edinburgh) 19:00 Dinner Image Document Truths and Fictions - programme (152.43 KB / PDF) Jun 20 2016 00.00 - 00.00 Truths and Fictions: Two Centuries of Scottish-Russian Encounters This one-day symposium, the third in a series organised by the 'Scotland and Russia: Cultural Encounters Since 1900' Project, explored the history of Scottish-Russian cultural exchange and influence. Dalhousie Building (room 2S17) University of Dundee Old Hawkhill Dundee DD1 5EN Find the venue
Jun 20 2016 00.00 - 00.00 Truths and Fictions: Two Centuries of Scottish-Russian Encounters This one-day symposium, the third in a series organised by the 'Scotland and Russia: Cultural Encounters Since 1900' Project, explored the history of Scottish-Russian cultural exchange and influence.
