Proletkult and the Languages of Modernity
OWRI-CLD workshop
30 November 2019 at 2pm
Bloomsbury Room, G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Proletkult refers to the Proletarian Cultural-Enlightenment Organization (Proletarskie kul'turno-prosvetitel'nye organizatsii). The institution was autonomous from the Bolshevik party, but is regarded by many as the cultural arm of the revolution. Founded in 1917, it was tasked with developing radical avant-garde aesthetics tailored to the working classes and their emergent role in modern industrial culture.
Proletkult peaked in 1920, when it spread like wildfire before its imminent demise. Despite its short lifespan, it was widely influential. This workshop aims to explore Proletkult from the original angle of language, translation and collective identity, in both Marxist and non-Marxist keys. Topics covered include: the polemics between Lenin and Proletkult in the shadow of the literacy campaign in the USSR, the British reception of Proletkult, Chinese modernity in translation, Soviet sociolinguistics and Gramsci’s linguistic modernity, transnational ethnopolitics along the EU-Russian border and Ljudski Oder between Slovenia, Italy and the international Proletkult.
Free of charge. All welcome.
Full programme, abstracts and registration: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17841
Thank you and best wishes,
Katia
Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies
Director, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory
Italian futurism and the machine (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019)
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719097096/
Trieste. Una frontiera letteraria (Trieste: Vita Activa, 2019)
http://www.vitaactivaeditoria.it/
<http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719097096/>___________________
INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study • University of London
Senate House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
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