Associate ProfessorEvgeny Pavlov

Modernitas: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Links between Humanities and Natural Sciences Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Conference co-convener (together with Dr Jacob Edmond of the U of Otago). Translations/Transitions, Biannual Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association. Christchurch, November 2011 (2011). Jointly organised by the Russian programme at UC and the Russian Studies Research Cluster at the U of Otago, the conference was held at the U of Canterbury. It was a highly successful event, bringing together a wide range of Slavic Studies scholars from the US, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK, and Russia. Keynote speaker was Prof. Gerald Janecek of the University of Kentucky.

Conference co-organiser, National Bodies in Eastern Europe, Conference held at Victoria University of Wellington. Faciliated the organisation of the conference on the Canterbury side, including successful application for funding from the CoA and the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. (2010)

New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpretors (NZSTI) (From 2000)

Conference panels chaired: Contemporary Russian Poetry II. AATSEEL Annual Meeting, New York, 2002

Conference panel chaired: Contemporary Russian Poetry II. AATSEEL Annual Meeting, New York, 2002

Conference Panel Chaired: Popular Culture. BASEES Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, April, 2005.

I organised and participated in a panel "Russian Journeys to the East" at the 2009 conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies in Cambridge, UK

Organised a panel at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Los Angeles (2010). The panel titled "Cold War in Post-Soviet and Contemporary Russian Poetry" brought together Prof. Kevin Platt, Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, Prof. Dmitry Golynko of the Russian Institute of Art History, and Dr Dennis Ioffe of the U of Amsterdam. A vastly expanded followup volume on the subject will be published in 2012 as a special issue of Russian Literature (Elsevier, Amsterdam). The volume has been accepted by the publisher and will be edited by Dr Ioffe and myself. Volume contributors will include Prof Stephanie Sandler (Harvard), Prof. Mark Lipovetsky (U of Colorado), et al. Together with the participants in the ASEEES panel, I am currently in the process of putting together a major grant application to the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) to fund a research project on the political dimension of contemporary Russian poetry.