Between 2 and 3 December, 12th international conference “Universals of Russian and western literature” took place at Voronezh State University. The event was organised by the Department of History and Typology of Russian and Foreign Literature of the Faculty of Philology of VSU.
The conference had a mixed format: in person and online. Among its participants were researchers from Russia, Germany, Israel, USA, Switzerland, Serbia, and Hungary. A wide range of topics were discussed at the conference: from universal ethical mechanisms of narration to the image of a chimney sweep in English literature; from phonosemantics of Osip Mandelshtam’s poetic texts to cultural and political peculiarities of the pattern of ceramic plates belonging to the time of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. A series of reports was dedicated to Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Chekhov, and Bulgakov. The lively atmosphere of the conference was conductive to discussion.
