Sixth International Dostoevsky Symposium

Nottingham 9-16 August 1986

The Sixth International Dostoevsky Symposium will be held at Nightingale Hall at the University of Nottingham from 9-16 August 1986.

The Chairman of the local organizing committee is Professor M. V. Jones and enquiries may be addressed to him at The Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom, or to your national representative, or to the member of the organizing committee with whom you are corresponding.

Nightingale Hall has accommodation for approximately 120 participants and spouses. There are approximately 30 modestly-sized double rooms, but charges are made per person and are the same regardless of whether participants occupy single or double rooms.

ACCOMMODATION

The cost will be  £130 per person, full board (i.e. including meals), for the whole period of the Symposium. There will be an additional Conference fee of £30 per participant. It is hoped that this sum will include inflation, but should any increase be necessary, every attempt will be made to inform participants in good time. It is also hoped that these fees will cover the cost of coach trips to (though not necessarily meals at) local places of interest which may include Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare's birthplace), Newstead Abbey (Byron's family home) or Eastwood (D.H. Lawrence's home).

DEPOSIT

Deposits of £20 per participant should be paid no later than 31 December 1985 and should be made payable to JDS Symposium and sent to Professor M.V. Jones at the above address.

PROGRAMME

The themes of the Conference will be:

a) Dostoevsky's works from 1876-1881

b) Dostoevsky in the context of the literature of his time (preferably with reference to the last decade of his life)

The headings for the sessions of the Symposium (subject to revision when the final programme has been composed) will be:

i) The Historical Context

ii) Philosophical Ideas

iii) The Creative Process and Literary Characters

iv) Structure and Genre

v) Language and Style

vi) Dostoevsky as a Publicist

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