This paper by Brad Underwood was presented at the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Conference celebrating Gary Saul Morson in April 2024. Introduction Humans can indulge feelings that they seem wired to avoid. Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky make the most of this contradiction. Their fiction depicts our draw
This paper by Dr. Elizabeth Blake was presented at the Krakow Conferences of Russian Philosophy: Nicolas Berdyaev and Russian Philosophy in the West in Krakow, 2024. As a prisoner, Nikolai Berdyaev, like Fedor Dostoevsky before him and Mikhail Bakhtin after him, was protected by his status as a member of the intelligentsia from the violence
This paper by Randall A. Poole was presented at the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Conference celebrating Gary Saul Morson in April 2024. I began to study Saul Morson’s work in the early 1990s, when I was a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame. His 1993 essay, “Prosaic Bakhtin:
This paper by Caryl Emerson was presented at the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Conference celebrating Gary Saul Morson in April 2024. The title of this talk is built off a bad piece of word-play. Donna Orwin and Sandy Goldberg opened the conference on Saul’s latest, Wonder Confronts Certainty. Now I
Please see the following conference program: Celebrating Gary Saul Morson: Humanistic Traditions in Russian Thought and Literature Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Friday, April 19 8:30–9:45 Breakfast and Registration (Harris Hall 108, Leopold Room) 9:45–10:15 Welcome Remarks by Provost Kathleen Hagerty, Dean Adrian