A conversation with the Moscow-based poet and prose writer Maria Stepanova and her main translator Sasha Dugdale about three volumes of Stepanova's work newly translated into English. A conversation with the Moscow-based poet and prose writer Maria Stepanova and her main translator Sasha Dugdale about three volumes of Stepanova's work newly translated into English: In Memory of Memory (Fitzcarraldo), War of the Beasts and the Animals (Bloodaxe), and The Voice Over (Columbia University Press). The discussion is led by Dr Oliver Ready (St Antony's) and Professor Stephanie Sandler (Harvard). Speakers: Maria Stepanova (poet and prose-writer) Sasha Dugdale (translator and poet) Professor Stephanie Sandler (Harvard) Dr Oliver Ready (St Antony's College, Oxford)

An event with leading scholars and the novelist Alex Christofi, to mark the bicentenary of Dostoevsky's birth by discussing new approaches to the work and life of this titanic figure. Speakers: Professor Yuri Corrigan (Boston University), Professor Lynn Ellen Patyk (Dartmouth College), Alex Christofi (Author, 'Dostoevsky in love: an intimate life') Discussant: Professor Caryl Emerson (Princeton) Chair: Dr Oliver Ready (St Antony's College, Oxford)