Read Russia 2013

Jacob M. Javits Center - JUNE 4 - 7, 2012

Book Expo America (BEA), North America’s premier meeting of book trade professionals, opens in June 2012 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, with Russia as BEA’s guest of honor and the focus of BEA’s 2012 Global Market Forum.

Russia’s 4,000-square-foot BEA exhibition space at the Javits Center will host presentations for industry professionals on the Russian book market, Russian literature in translation, and new works by Russian writers, publishers, historians, and journalists.

Global Market Forum - June 4, 2012

Jacob Javits Center - Room 1E17

Program coordinators: Rüdiger Wischenbart (BEA), Alexandra Shipetina (Read Russia/Russian Book Union)

Monday, June 4, 2012
When	What	Who
9:00-9:10 AM	Welcome	Vladimir Grigoriev, Russian Federal Agency of Press and Mass Communication Steven Rosato, Event Director, BEA
9:10-10:30 AM	An Overview of the Russian Book & Publishing Marketplace	Vladimir Grigoriev, Russian Federal Agency of Press and Mass Communication Oleg Novikov, CEO of EKSMO Yuri Deikalo, CEO of AST/Astrel Andrew Nurnberg, Andrew Nurnberg Associates, literary agency Moderator: Rüdiger Wischenbart
10:30-11:20 AM	Russian Literature in Translation in the United States Market	Vladimir Grigoriev, Russian Federal Agency of Press and Mass Communication Morgan Entrekin, Grove Atlantic Peter Mayer, Overlook Press John Siciliano, editor, Penguin Moderator: Ed Kasinec, Columbia University and NYPL, Emeritus
11:30 AM -12:20 PM	Exciting Educational Publishing Programs in Russia	Alexander Kondakov, CEO of Prosveschenie Dmitry P. Bak, Vice-Rector for Scientific Research, Russian State University for the Humanities Marc Jeffrey Mikulich, Vice President, Brand Management & International Rights, Wiley Moderator: Christopher Kenneally, Copyright Clearance Center
12:30-1:30 PM	Lunch Break
1:30-2:20 PM	Children’s & Young Adult Titles in Russian Publishing	Alla Nasonova, Detgiz Children’s Publishing Lev Elin, CEO of Egmont-Russia Arkady Vitrouk, CEO and General Director, Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Group Sergei Tishkov, Editorial Director, Children's and Young Adult Books, at RIPOL Classic Publishing Group Moderator: Olga Ro, Russian Book Industry Magazine
2:30-3:20 PM	A Critical Review of Russia’s Policy on Copyrights and Piracy	Oleg Novikov, CEO of EKSMO Sergey Anuriev, CEO of Litres.ru Michael Healy, Copyright Clearance Center Moderator: Rüdiger Wischenbart, BEA
4:30-5:20 PM	Technological Advances in Russian Distribution & Print On Demand	Yevgeniy Khata, CEO of Pubmix.com (Russian POD) David Taylor, Ingram/Lightning Source Patricia Arancibia, Barnes & Noble Moderator: Ed Nawotka, Publishing Perspective
3:30-4:20 PM	Stepping into the Digital Future with Russia	Alexander Bobrovskiy, Vice-CEO of Litres.ru Vladimir Kharitonov, Executive Director Russian Web-Publishers Association Leo Prozument, Managing Director-EMEA and North America – Development Director Wexler-Russia (reading devices) Pieter Swinkels, Kobo Andrei Sorokin, Russian State Archive of Social and Political History Vadim Staklo, Yale University (“Secrets from the Russian Archive” digitization project, with Yale University Press) Moderator: George Slowik, Publishers Weekly

Tuesday, June 5, 2012
When	What	Who	Where
8:45-9:00 AM	BEA & Read Russia Opening	Steven Rosato, Director, BEA Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication Peter B. Kaufman, Read Russia Inc. Mikhail Seslavinsky, Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication Natalia Solzhenitsyn, Head of Solzhenitsyn Fund	BEA HALL 3E ENTRANCE
9:30-10:00 AM	Moscow - A City of Books: New approaches to publishing and distribution that are transforming the city. The Moscow International Book Fair: The largest and premier Book Forum in Russia	Andrei Gelmiza, Director, KNIGABYTE Foundation Nikolay Ovsyannikov, Director General, The Moscow International Book Fair	Read Russia Booth #2424
10:00-10:30 AM	Read Russia Presentation: The Solzhenitsyn Archive	Natalia Solzhenitsyn, Head of Solzhenitsyn Fund	UPTOWN STAGE
10:00 AM	Best Practices of Book Distribution and Bookselling in the United States and Russia	Olga Ro, Book Industry magazine Oren Teicher, the American Booksellers Association	JAVITS CENTER, ROOM 1E06
10:30-11:00 AM	Russia in Search of Itself. Rethinking History. From Stalin to Stolypin: A Modern Russian Discourse of 20th Century Russian History.	Prof. Stephen Cohen, New York University Prof. Yuri Pivovarov, Director of the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of Russian Academy of Science Andrei Sorokin, Director of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, Editor in chief of the ROSSPEN Publishing House	Read Russia Booth #2424
11:00-11:30 AM	Russia in Search of Itself. Rethinking History. History of Russia – History of Tsars? New Diaries of Nicholas II	Prof. Richard Wortman, Columbia University Prof. Sergei Mironenko, Director of the State Archive of the Russian Federation Prof. Yuri Pivovarov, Director of the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of Russian Academy of Science Andrei Sorokin, Director of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, Editor in chief of the ROSSPEN Publishing House	Read Russia Booth #2424
11:30-12 noon	Russia in Search of Itself. Rethinking History. Soviet Archives from Secrecy to Openness? Stalin’s Digital Archive.	Jonathan Brent, CEO and Executive Director of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; founder & Executive Editor, Yale University Press’s «Annals of Communism» series Vadim Staklo, Project Manager, Yale University Press Prof. Sergei Mironenko, Director of the State Archive of Russian Federation Andrei Sorokin, Director of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, Editor in chief of the ROSSPEN Publishing House	Read Russia Booth #2424
12:10-1:00 PM	Book Culture and Civil Society: Russian and American authors and librarians on the role of books in civil society	Dmitry Bykov, prize-winning author, journalist John Cole, Director, Center for the Book, U.S. Library of Congress Ekaterina Genieva, Director, Russian State Library Vladimir Makanin, prize-winning author Sergei Shargunov, author, journalist Zakhar Prilepin, prize-winning author	Read Russia Booth #2424
1:00-2:00 PM	Read Russia Panorama: Literary Fiction and Biography. A series of bite-size, up-to-the-minute introductions to the best books in Russia, presented by authors, agents and publishers.	Moderator: Peter Blackstock, Grove/Atlantic Participating Writers: Vladimir Makanin, Dmitry Bykov, Pavel Basinsky, Alexander Ilichevsky, Maya Kucherskaya	Read Russia Booth #2424
2:00-3:30 PM	Read Russia Panorama: Mystery, Sci Fi, Dystopia, and Thriller. A series of bite-size, up-to-the-minute introductions to the best books in Russia, presented by authors, agents and publishers.	Moderator: Peter Blackstock, Grove/Atlantic Participating Writers: Sergey Kuznetsov, Master Chen (Dmitry Kosyrev), Andrey Rubanov, Igor Sakhovsky, Anna Starobinets
4:00-5:00 PM	Read Russia Official Reception		Read Russia Booth #2424
3:00-3:30 PM	What Are American Slavic Librarians Buying?	Moderator: Rob Davis, Columbia & Cornell University Stephen D. Corrsin, The New York Public Library John DeSantis, Dartmouth College Harry Leich, Library of Congress Tatjana Lorkovic, Yale University Liladhar Pendse, Princeton University Moderator: Rob Davis, Columbia & Cornell University	Read Russia Booth #2424
3:30-4:00 PM	The Experimental Art of Russian Children’s Books A taste of the treasures on show at the Read Russia Gallery.	Vladimir Semenikhin, Exhibition Curator, Artist	Read Russia Booth #2424
3:30-4:00 PM	Read Russia Presentation: Stalin, Moscow: New Historical Novels and Cultural Histories	Edvard Radzinsky Solomon Volkov	UPTOWN STAGE

Alexander Pushkin’s Birthday & Day of Russian Language

Wednesday, June 6, 2012
When	What	Who	Where
10:00-11:00 AM	The Rossica Prize: Academia Rossica, organizers of the Rossica Prize, the world’s only award dedicated to translation of Russian literature into English, invites translators, authors and publishers to celebrate Russian literature and its ambassadors in the English language.	Svetlana Adjoubei, Director of Academia Rossica James Rann, Coordinator of the Rossica Prize and Rossica Young Translators Award Alexander Drozdov, Executive Director, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center Mark Krotov, Judge	Read Russia Booth #2424
11:00-12:00 noon	Institute of Translation & Read Russia Award	Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head, The Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication Ekaterina Genieva, Director, the All-Russia State Library of Foreign Literature Dmitry Bak, Vice-Rector, Russian State University for the Humanities Alexander Drozdov, Executive Director, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center	Read Russia Booth #2424
12:00-12:30 PM	The Russian Library: Presentation of a unique publishing project featuring Russian classics and the best of contemporary Russian literature	Peter Mayer, Publisher, Overlook Press Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head, The Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication	Read Russia Booth #2424
12:30-1:00 PM	Happy Birthday, Alexander Sergeevich! A Champagne Reception in Honor of the Birthday of Russia’s National Poet, Alexander Pushkin.	A reading of Pushkin’s poetry in English and Russian from My Talisman / Мой талисман: The Poetry of Alexander Pushkin, translated by Julian Henry Lowenfeld	Read Russia Booth #2424
1:00-2:00 PM	Read Russia Panorama: Literary Fiction. A series of bite-size, up-to-the-minute introductions to the best books in Russia, presented by authors, agents and publishers.	Moderator: Mark Krotov, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Participating Writers: Mikhail Shishkin, Olga Slavnikova, Dmitry Danilov, Andrey Gelasimov, and German Sadulaev	Read Russia Booth #2424
2:00-3:00 PM	Read Russia Panorama: Literary Fiction, Fantasy and Social Satire. A series of bite-size, up-to-the-minute introductions to the best books in Russia, presented by authors, agents and publishers.	Moderator: Mark Krotov, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Participating Writers: Zakhar Prilepin, Sergei Shargunov, Sergei Lukyanenko, Irina Muravyova, and Yury Polyakov	Read Russia Booth #2424
3:00-3:30 PM	Joseph Brodsky’s Legacy	Ann Kjellberg, founding editor, Little Star; literary executor of Joseph Brodsky	Read Russia Booth #2424
3:30-4:00 PM	The Master and Margarita: Christianity under Question? Archdeacon Andrei Kuraev, a philosopher and theologian famed for his witty and approachable advocacy for Christianity, shares his insights into Bulgakov’s much-loved masterpiece.	Andrey Kuraev, Professor of Moscow Theological Academy, Lecturer of Moscow State University	Read Russia Booth #2424
4:00-5:00 PM	Moscow Welcomes International Publishers: MIBF International Center and KNIGABYTE@MIBF. The International Center at the Moscow Bookfair is the best gateway into Russia’s booming publishing industry, a hub for non-Russian publishers, agents and translators, and a great place for Russian industry insiders. KNIGABYTE@MIBF is Russia’s largest expo and conference on digital innovation in book publishing.	Nikolay Ovsyannikov, Director General, The Moscow International Book Fair Alexander Godovanets, Director, Moscow Office of Academia Rossica, Organizer of MIBF International Center Andrey Gelmiza, KNIGABYTE@MIBF, Organizing Committee Chairman	Read Russia Booth #2424
4:30-5:00 PM	Read Russia: New Voices	Dmitry Bykov, Andrei Gelasimov, Alexander Illichevsky, Mikhail Shishkin, and Olga Slavnikova Presented by Mark Rotella, Publishers Weekly	BEA UPTOWN STAGE

Thursday, June 7, 2012
When	What	Who	Where
10:00-11:00 AM	Big Book Prize: Presentation of the Big Book Prize, Russia’s most prestigious literary award, plus a “Meet and Greet” with prize winners.	Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication Big Book prize winners: Dmitry Bykov, Vladimir Makanin, Pavel Basinsky, Mikhail Shishkin - and the Big Book finalists.	Read Russia Booth #2424
11:00-11:30 AM	Debut Prize International Publishing Program. Bringing new literature by young Russian authors to the world.	Olga Slavnikova, Prize-winning author, Debut Prize Director Debut Prize winners: Lev Oborin, Alisa Ganieva, Polina Klyukina, Sergei Shargunov, and Igor Savelyev	Read Russia Booth #2424
11:30-12:30 PM	The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center	Alexander Drozdov, Executive Director, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center Boris Minaev, writer, biographer of Boris Yeltsin Tatiana Voskovskaya, Head of International Projects, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center	Read Russia Booth #2424
12:30-1:00 PM	Jewish Books on the Russian Publishing Scene	Michael Greenberg, publisher, Gesharim / Bridges of Culture Andrey Dementiev, poet	Read Russia Booth #2424
1:00-1:30 PM	From Russia with Warmth! Publishers from Orenburg present books about the famous Orenburg Down Shawls	Igor Khramov, Head of the Orenburg Charity Foundation Eurasia and Director of the Orenburg Publishing House Irina Bushukhina, Head of Research of the Orenburg Regional Museum of Fine Arts Rustem Galimov, PR-Director, Orenburg Charity Foundation Eurasia	Read Russia Booth #2424
1:30-2:30 PM	Lunch with Anna Karenina	Representative, Focus Features Luann Walther, Everyman’s Library	Read Russia Booth #2424

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