Program

LOLITA in America: A Symposium to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of LOLITA in the United States

Saturday, September 27, 2008
The New School - Tishman Auditorium - 66 West 12th Street

10:00 WELCOME
  Carolyn Vellenga Berman, Chair, Department of Humanities
Linda Dunne, Dean, The New School
   
10:15 "LOLITA'S WILD RIDE"
(Terri Gordon, Moderator)
  Ellen Pifer (University of Delaware)
   
11:00 LOLITA IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
(Neil Gordon, Moderator)
  Anthony Anemone (The New School Foreign Languages)
LOLITA and the Making of an American Writer
Fred Hills (Former Editor-in-Chief, McGraw-Hill)
The Editor's Role
Elizabeth Boyle Machlan (New York University)
Reinventing America
   
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch Break
   
1:30 "LOLITA AND THE FABULOUS FORTIES AND FIFTIES"
(Tanya Mairs, Moderator)
  Alfred Appel, Jr. (Northwestern University)
   
2:15 LOLITA, LAURA, AND THE BURNING OF BOOKS
(Robert Polito, Moderator)
  Leland de la Durantaye (Harvard University)
The Original of LOLITA
Laura Frost (The New School Literature)
The Scandal of LOLITA, the Secrets of Laura
Ron Rosenbaum (Slate Columnist)
Second Thoughts about the Fate of Laura
Lila Azam Zanganeh (Literary contributor to Le Monde)
Destroy and Forget: The Secret of Durable Pigments
   
3:30 - 4:00 Tea
   
4:00 LOLITA IN WORLD LITERATURE
(Val Vinokur, Moderator)
  Inessa Medzhibovskaya (The New School Literature)
Literary Roots of Deviance in LOLITA
Tanya Mairs (The New School Humanities)
Dostoyevski, Freud, and LOLITA
Dominic Pettman (The New School Media Studies)
That Complex Ghost: Passion, Recognition, and Resemblance in LOLITA
   
5:15 "READING LOLITA IN RUSSIA"
(Anthony Anemone, Moderator)
  Nina Khrushcheva (The New School International Affairs)
   
6:00-7:30 Dinner Break
   
7:30 SCREENING OF LOLITA (1962, 152 minutes)
(Stanley Kubrick, Director)
  Introduced by Sam Ishii-Gonzales (The New School Media Studies)