ABOUT US
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History & Mission
The Australian Dostoevsky Society is a not-for-profit cultural organisation, promoting the study of the life and works of the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881), who has made a lasting impact on the European literary canons and European aesthetics of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The ADS promotes research into Dostoevsky’s links with the thinkers of his time, inside and outside Russia, and in particular Dostoevsky’s declared interest in Hegel and the philosophy of history, which has been little studied to date.
The ADS is proud to be associated with the tradition of Dostoevsky studies in Australia, going back to the 1950s at the University of Melbourne.
We are also listed at Monash University as a peak body
International Dostoevsky Society and Australian Dostoevsky Society
Dmitry Vladimirovich Grishin (1908-1975), Reader in Russian, taught the first courses on Dostoevsky at the University of Melbourne in the Russian Department established in 1948.
In 1968, at the Sixth International Congress of Slavists in Prague, Dr Grishin was the prime mover behind the creation of the International Dostoevsky Society as part of the commemoration in 1971 of the 150th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. Dr Grishin became the first Vice-President of the IDS, which organised its first symposium in Bad Ems, Germany, in September 1971. Since then, the IDS has had a Regional Representative from the Australian Dostoevsky Society.
Resources
International Dostoevsky Society/North American Dostoevsky Society
Dostoevsky Society of Argentina
Estudios Dostoievski – The journal of the Dostoevsky Society of Argentina and the Spanish Section of the International Dostoevsky Society (in Spanish)
Eslavia Journal
The Dostoevsky Society of Japan
ADS
Emeritus Professor Alexander Grishin
(ANU)
Patron
Irene Zohrab
Victoria U of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka NZ
New Zealand Affiliate
Slobodanka Millicent Vladiv-Glover
BA, MA, PhD (Melb)
President
Nikolai Gladanac
BA Hon (Monash)
Vice President
(Research)
Nicholas Ulbrick
BA Hon MA (Monash)
PhD Candidate (SWIN)
Vice President
(Public Relations)
Luba Cowall
Membership Secretary
John Glover
BA, LL.B (Melb), B.C.L. (Oxon.), PhD (Monash)
Legal Advisor
Edward Ashcroft
BA Hon, MA, PhD (Monash)
Member of Executive
Tom Sharkie
BA Hon (Monash), MA&MA
(UNE)
Member of Executive
Richard Stewart
PhD Candidate (SCU)
Member of Executive
Zo Damage
MA&MA (RMIT)
Artistic Director
James Jackson
Member of Executive
Natalia Batova
PhD
(MSLU/MGLU)
Member
Jane Sullivan
Freelance journalist, Author
Honorary Member
Sharon Zhang
Student Member
Henry Buchan
MA (Glas.)
International Member
Elena-Olga Ryygas
MA (SPbU)
Honorary Research Assistant
