Deadline: February 15, 2022
In celebration of the centennial jubilee of the Philosophers’ Ship and the 80th anniversary of The New Review / Novyi Zhurnal, the conference “Russian Emigration on the Waves of Freedom” will explore the unknown pages of the intellectual history of Russian émigré culture in the 20th century and will seek to integrate the social, cultural, and intellectual contributions of the multiethnic Russian-language diaspora into world culture. In 1922 the leading Russian intellectuals were expelled from Soviet Russia. The Philosophers’ Ship marked the beginning of the intellectual history of the Russian intelligentsia in exile. The traditions of Russia Abroad, its free thinking and uncensored literature were continued on the pages of The New Review, the only intellectual publication of the multiethnic Russian-language diaspora during wartime. For 80 years, The New Review has been the intellectual center of the Russian free word and independent thought. Today the issues of this unique journal present the intellectual treasures of contemporary American, Russian, and world culture.
Papers should be related to the history and culture of the Russian emigration in the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the academic contributions of the passengers of the Philosophers’ Ship and The New Review journal to world intellectual history. Papers should reflect the fundamental role of the multiethnic Russian-language diaspora’s institutions in preserving and developing the main principles of humanism and democracy. The conference will consist of two panels broadcast via the Zoom platform at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. The conference will be held on May 2-3, 2022. The conference is being organized by The New Review, the oldest Russian émigré literary magazine in cooperation with the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
The New Review/Novyi Zhurnal was founded in New York in 1942. For eight decades the journal has played the role of intellectual center of the multiethnic, international Russian-language diaspora. Our contributing authors include five Russian Nobel Prize laureates in literature — Ivan Bunin, Boris Pasternak, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Svetlana Alexievich — as well as a plethora of other writers, poets, and philosophers. To name only a few: Vladimir Nabokov, Georgy Ivanov, Georgy Adamovich, Boris Zaitsev, Alexandra Tolstaya, Mark Aldanov, Mikhail Osorgin, Igor Chinnov, Nina Berberova, Gaito Gazdanov, Mikhael Karpovich, Pitirim Sorokin, Nicholas Timasheff, Roman Goul, Sergei Maksimov, Ivan Elagin, Nikolai Ulyanov, Gleb Struve, Boris Filippov, Sasha Sokolov, Nahum Korzhavin, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Dmitry Bobyshev. Today our authors include some of the best-known contemporary Russian writers. The New Review is distributed in more than 30 countries.
The conference proceedings will be published in a special brochure (in English and Russian); some papers will be published on the pages of The New Review (in Russian only).
Send proposals for conference papers (15min) before February 15, 2022. An abstract of 250 words (in English) must include the following information:
Title & brief outline of the paper
Author’s first and last name
Mailing address
E-mail address
Academic institution
Space is limited; each session will run two hours. Due to the pandemic, the sessions will only be held via the Zoom platform.
Notification of acceptance will be sent to participants by February 20, 2022.
The New Review does not provide funding to participants of the conference.
All other details will be sent via e-mail list after February 25, 2022.
Contact us via newreview@msn.com<mailto:newreview@msn.com> include: “New Review International Conference” in your subject line.
The conference will be held by the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (May 2-3, 2022).
The Harriman Institute at Columbia University, one of the world’s leading academic institutions for the study of Russia, Eurasia, and East Central Europe, is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary. Our mission is to serve our community at the university and beyond by supporting research, instruction, and dialogue, sponsoring vibrant and multidisciplinary events that bring together our resources of faculty, students, and alumni.