TRANSITIONAL NABOKOV CONFERENCE PROGRAMME UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ROTHERMERE AMERICAN INSTITUTE lA SOUTH PARKS ROAD OXFORD, On 3TG U.K. Friday, July 6'h 9.45 Welcome: Paul Giles, Director of the Rothermere American Institute Will Norman and Duncan White (Oxford) 10.00 Plenary Speaker Michael Wood (Princeton) "Nabokov: The Kindness of Cruelty" 11.00 Coffee break 11.15 Moderator: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney (Holy Cross). Stephen Blackwell (Tennessee) "Fugitive Sense in Nabokov" Leland de la Durantaye (Harvard) "Transitions between Science and Art, or that other VN" Will Norman (Oxford) "Reading Nabokov with Adomo and Benjamin" Christine Raguet (Sorbonne) "Beyond Creativity—Translation as a Transitional Process: Ada in French" 13.00 Break for lunch 14.15 Moderator: David Bethea (Oxford/Wisconsin) Neil Comwell (Bristol) "Sirin to Nabokov and Beyond: the transitional texts" EFTA01128894