This event is part of "Ann Arbor in Russian Literature: Revisiting the Carl R. Proffer and Ardis Legacies," a symposium to be held at the University of Michigan on September 20-21, 2013 to mark the 75th anniversary of Carol R. Proffer's birth.
Presenters: Barbara Heldt, professor emerita of Russian and women’s studies, University of British Columbia; Robert G. Kaiser, associate editor and former Moscow bureau chief, The Washington Post; Irina Prokhorova, literary critic, cultural historian, and head of the New Literary Observer magazine and publishing house; Gerald Smith, professor emeritus of Russian, University of Oxford; Ellendea Proffer Teasley, co-founder of Ardis Publishers and MacArthur Fellow; and Alexei Tsvetkov, poet and essayist
This session will also include a roundtable with former Ardis editors and translators Nancy Beardsley, Fred Moody, Bill Kalvin, Christine Rydel, and Mary Ann Szporluk.
For more information, visit ii.umich.edu/crees/events/specialevents/proffertribute
Sponsors: CREES; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures; College of Literature, Science, & the Arts; others
