Konstantin Vaginov at 125: “Goat Song” and Beyond
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 translations. 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)
1:30 – 4:00 PM | Panel 2: Beyond Novels
Moderator: Yulia Kim (Columbia University)
- Toward a Soviet Biedermeier: Vaginov’s NEP Politics
- Ivan Sokolov (University of California-Berkeley)
- «Семечкии» Вагинова как сдача и гибель советской интеллигенции
- Gleb Morev
- The Unknown Poet in a Ballet Tutu: Vaginov in the 1980s-1990s
- Dmitri Bresler
4:30 – 6:00 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 (New York University)
7:00 – 8:30 PM | Poetry Reading by Polina Barskova
Moderator: Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University)
Working languages: English and Russian * Open to the public (with registration)
Registration REQUIRED by 12pm on February 7, 2025 in order to attend this event.
