‘THE LOMONOSOV READINGS’ AT THE MSU BRANCH IN SEVASTOPOL
The scientiﬁ c conference ‘The Lomonosov Readings’ and the International scientific conference of students, graduate students and young scientists ‘Lomonosov’, two traditional academic events, were held at the MSU Branch in Sevastopol on April 3-5, 2019. Panel discussions on Philology are on the programmes of both conferences. The literary studies panel focused on Russian and foreign prose and poetry, and covered an array of topics, including the concept of freedom in N. Karamzin’s works, the perception and reﬂ ection of Crimea by I. Bunin, stage directions in B. Akunin’s drama ‘To Kill a Viper’, the mythological chronotope in A. Ivanov’s novel ‘The Dog-headed’, screen versions of ‘Docror Zhivago’, the concept of border in M. Bulgakov’s novel ‘The White Guard’, Sevastopol in Ukrainian poetry, drama conﬂ ict in D. Hare’s play ‘Stuﬀ Happens’, the postmodernist slant of ‘The Accidental rebel’ by Paul Auster. The linguists panel discussed and interpreted parents’ judgments on the Uniform National Exam, media coverage of the events in the Kerch strait, John Dowland’s letter to P. Ceccil. Linguistic theory was presented in a paper discovering the relationship between Ch. Pierce’s types of signs and forms of speech. Reports on ﬁ eld research in the Baidarskaya valley region of Greater Sevastopol and on factors inﬂ uencing language in the urban setting were major contributors to the discussion on contemporary Russian language. Results of comparative studies were presented in the paper contrasting English and Russian texts of V. Nabokov’s novel ‘The Defence’ and the paper on Russian and Turkish phraseological units. Researchers also discussed typical mistakes of students learning a second or foreign language and the role of English in the modern world. The programme also included panel discussions on borrowings in contemporary literary Russian and an interplay between literature and theatre.