{"id":18,"date":"2016-04-17T15:38:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cp150\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2016-07-24T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T22:15:43","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cp150\/conference\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The publication<\/strong> of Crime and Punishment<\/em> in 1866 was a watershed moment in the history of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Dostoevsky\u2019s novel perennially hovers near the top of lists of \u201cBest Books of All Time.\u201d Harold Bloom summed up the work\u2019s enduring mastery and appeal, observing that, \u201cCrime and Punishment<\/em> remains the best of all murder stories, a century and a third after its publication. We have to read it \u2014 though it is harrowing \u2014 because, like Shakespeare, it alters our consciousness.\u201d In the twenty first century, media and technology advances have transformed the reading experience and the ways readers relate to texts. Most students in literature classrooms are now digital natives, many reading on e-devices, some even on smart phones. In the age of the \u201cspoiler alert\u201d our reading experience seems to have changed beyond all recognition, yet in some ways the possibilities of new reading communities opened up by social media allow us to replicate the kinds of institutional communities which arose around nineteenth-century Russian periodicals. Rethinking the ways in which we contextualize, teach, and interpret Dostoevsky\u2019s novel will help make it more accessible to a new generation of readers.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrime and Punishment<\/em> at 150\u201d will take place October 21-22, 2016 at the University of British Columbia, and will celebrate the novel\u2019s sesquicentenary by bringing together teachers, scholars, students, translators, artists, and readers to discuss Dostoevsky in the digital age. The conference will include a keynote by Carol Apollonio, a screening of the new film Crime and Punishment <\/em>(Apocalypse Films, 2015) with post-film discussion with its director, Andrew O\u2019Keefe, and a video conference with a linked Crime and Punishment <\/em>panel at the University of Bristol, among other events. Confirmed participants include Brian Armstrong, Elena Baraban, Alexander Burry, Deborah Martinsen, Louise McReynolds, Robin Feuer Miller, Megan Swift, and William Mills Todd, III.<\/p>\n

We invite abstracts of 300 words on topics related to Crime and Punishment<\/em> in the classroom or digital humanities\/new media approaches to Crime and Punishment<\/em>. Possible topics include:<\/p>\n