Brian Boyd (University of Auckland, New Zealand) - Nabokov as Storyteller
Alexander Dolinin (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) -
Stories Hidden Inside the Plot (An Approach to Vladimir Nabokov’s Poetics of Concealment)
Donald Barton Johnson (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) - "Signs & Symbols": Nabokov & Iconicity
Boris Averin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) - Experiments with One's Own Selves in Nabokov’s Russian and American Fiction
Alexander Zholkovsky (University of Southern California, USA) - On the Genre of Nabokov’s First Poem
Samuel Schuman (University of Minnesota, Morris, USA) - “A poem, a poem, forsooth:” Immortality and Transformation in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Nabokov’s Novels
Sarah Funke (Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., New York, USA) - Nabokov’s Library: Books and Autographs
July 16, Tuesday
Nabokov and the United States:
Savely Senderovich, Yelena Shvarts (Cornell University, USA) - Tongue the Punchinello (A Commentary to Pnin)
Galya Diment (University of Washington, USA) - The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. Pnin in the Land of the North Americans
Eric Naiman (University of California, Berkeley, USA) - Perversion in "Pnin"
Stephen H. Blackwell (University of Tennessee, USA) - Aubrey Beardsley and "Lolita"
Sarah Funke (Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., USA) - "Mirages and Nightmares”: The Narrative Lessons of Lolita from Novel to Script to Screen
Jenefer Coates (Middlesex University, London, UK) - La Morte d’Humbert - Nabokov’s Medieval Texts
Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College, USA) - Vladimir Nabokov’s Impact on American Post-Modernists: The Case of John Hawkes
Paul Benedict Grant (University of Glasgow, UK) - Nabokov and Transcendentalism
Juliette Taylor (University of Warwick, UK) - Nabokov's Aesthetic of Mistranslation
Corinne Scheiner (Colorado College, USA) - In Place of a Preface: Reading the Opening Chapter of "Laughter in the Dark" as a Foreword to the English Translation
July 17, Wednesday
St. Petersburg and Russia in Nabokov's Oeuvre:
Sergei Davydov (Middlebury College, USA) - Shishki on Adam's Head: Literary Hoaxes by Khodasevich and Nabokov
Yuichi Isahaya (Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan) - Nabokov and Georgiy Ivanov v Two Conflicting Petersburgs
Ole Nyegaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark) - On Bely's and Nabokov's Use of Space in Fiction
Dana Dragunoiu (Princeton University, USA) - Russian Neo-Idealism and Vladimir Nabokov's Philosophical Domain
Olga Voronina (Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia) - Dream as a Structural Device in Pushkin, Tolstoy and Nabokov
Stanislav Shvabrin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) - Vladimir Vladimirovich N., Ivan Petrovich Pnin: an Earlier Encounter?
Vera Polischouk (Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia) - Under the Badge of Nabokov (VN's Influence on Modern Russian Literature)
Agnes Edel-Roy (University of Paris III, Censier, France) - The Meaning of Russianness in the Fictional System of Some of Nabokov's “Russian” Novels
Alexei Sklyarenko (Independent Researcher, St. Petersburg, Russia) - Russian Subtexts in "Ada": Allusions to Konstantin Sluchevsky's Work
July 18, Thursday
Beyond Nabokov's Metaphysics:
Michael Wood (Princeton University, USA) - The Politics of Zembla
Igor Smirnov (Universitaet Konstanz, Germany) - Samozvantsy [Impostors] in Nabokov's "Despair"
Julian Connolly (University of Virginia, USA) - The Elemental Nabokov: The Role of Natural Elements in Nabokov's Fiction
Yuri Leving (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) - The Metaphysics of the Garage: Nabokov's Automobile Aesthetics
Liudmila Ryaguzova (Kuban' State University, Russia) - Substantial and Ontological Foundations of Nabokov's Fiction
Jacqueline Hamrit (Universite Charles-de-Gaulle, France) - Nabokov and French Thought
Nabokov's Butterflies:
Dieter Zimmer. Translator / Editor / Commentator of Nabokov (Berlin, Germany) - Chinese Rhubarb and Caterpillars
Victoria Alexander (Dactyl Foundation, Santa Fe Institute, USA) - Neutral Evolution, Teleology and Nabokov on Insect Mimicry
Konstantin Efetov (Crimean Medical University, Ukraine) - The Family Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera) in Nabokov's Works
Andrei Ena (Crimean State Agrarian University, Ukraine); Konstantin Efetov - The Other Trees: Crimean Flora in Nabokov's Poetry
Poster Papers:
Margarit Tadevosyan (Boston College, USA) - Thou Are Not Thou¦: Nabokov and Evelyn Waugh
Daniela Monica Oancea (The University of Paris 7, France) - A Portrait of the Artist as a Child: Vladimir Nabokov and Steven Millhauser
Anita Kondoyanidi (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Transcendence of Exile: Nabokov's St. Petersburg
Christoph Henry-Thommes (University of Mainz, Germany) - Nabokov's Neoplatonist Views of "This World" and "The Other World" in
His Poem “Death”
