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The Art and Politics of
Fiction:
Vladimir Nabokov and Contemporary Russia
International
Affairs at The New School and the World Policy Institute invite
you to
The Art and Politics
of Fiction: Vladimir Nabokov and Contemporary Russia
A conversation with
Professor Ian Buruma,
Bard College
Ambassador Jack F. Matlock, Columbia University
Professor Nina Khrushcheva, The New School and World Policy
Institute
On the occasion of Professor Khrushcheva's new book, Imagining
Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale University Press,
2007), the author and two eminent observers of world politics will
discuss the intersecting passages of art and politics in
contemporary Russia, from Nabokov's idiosyncratic relationship with
his former homeland to the current Putin era.
Introduction by
Anthony Anemone, Chair and Associate Provost of Foreign
Languages, The New School.
Moderated by Jonathan
Bach, Associate Director of the Graduate Program in
International Affairs, The New School.
Panelist Biographies
Ian Buruma writes
regularly for The New Times Magazine and The New York Review of
Books as well as for other publications. Professor of democracy,
human rights and journalism at Bard College, he is the author of
many books including The Wages of Guilt, Occidentalism, and
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of
Tolerance.
Jack F. Matlock, who
currently teaches International Relations at Columbia University,
served as the last U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987
to1991. He is the author of Autopsy on an Empire: The American
Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, and
Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended.
Nina Khrushcheva is
associate professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs
at the New School and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute.
Read a review of
Imagining Nabokov from The Economist
here.
The Art and Politics of
Fiction
When
Friday, March 7, 2008 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Conversation and reception
Where
Wolff Conference Room
List Academic Center
65 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, New York
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