We are very excited to announce our first paper will be presented by Steven Lovatt, this Friday:
Strangers in a strange land? Jewish representations of
the Russian landscape, 1860-1940
In this paper I shall discuss the representation of the Russian landscape in the work of Jewish painters and writers active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After introducing some of the general theoretical and contextual issues that bear upon my subject, I shall move on to a more detailed consideration of particular works. Although my discussion will be wide ranging and not confined to problems of cultural and national identity, my focus throughout will be the question of the extent to which distinctively Jewish perceptions of the Russian landscape (if such existed) might be considered compatible with a contemporary Russian discourse of national-spiritual uniqueness that placed special emphasis upon the native terrain of the ‘motherland’.
Steven Lovatt has a BA in Russian Studies from the
University of Leeds and a Masters degree in the same subject from the
University of Bristol. He has just begun an MLitt in the Department of
Philosophy at Bristol that will examine the role of irony in the works of
Fiodor Dostoevskii and SÆren Kierkegaard. Steven also contributes articles and
reviews on the English-language literature of Wales to Welsh literary
publications.
Friday 4 November, 4.10 pm; Lecture Theatre One (LT1), Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, 43Woodland Road.
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