Programme for the Conference “The Russian National Idea in the 19th and
20th Century”
June 6th and 7th 2008, St Anthony’s College, Oxford
FRIDAY JUNE 6TH
12:45pm-13:30 - Lunch at St. Antony’s College
13:30-13:40 - Introductory remarks
13:40-15:20 - Building the Nation I: Institutions and Ideology
Rebecca Bouveng (Durham) ‘Reassessing the Idea of Russian Messianism in
Contemporary Russian Politics’
Katja Ruutu (Oxford) ‘The Role of the Language in Ideological Discourses -
their Conversation with Stalin’
Robert Harris (Oxford) ‘Alexander Herzen: The Construction of a Liberal
Socialist Identity in 19th Century Russia’
15:20 - 15:40 - Break
15:40-16:55 - Building the Nation II: Cultural Memory
Jonathan Brunstedt (Oxford) ‘Monumentalizing Moscow: War Memorial Politics
in the Soviet Capital’
Victoria Donovan (Oxford) ‘Tourist guides and Cultural Heritage in
Provincial Russian towns: Writing Local Identities’
Mark Sutcliffe (SEES) ‘Retrospectivism and the National Idea: the
Architecture of St Petersburg’
16:55-17:15 - Break
17:15-18:30 - Imagining the Nation
Dominic Martin (Cambridge) ‘The Imaginary of Penza’
Ian Appleby (Manchester) ‘The Ultimate Cossack Sacrifice? Laying Down
One’s Identity for the Fatherland’
Anton Shekhovtsov (Sevastopol National Technical University) ‘Aleksandr
Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism: The New Right à la Russe’
18:40-19:30 - Dinner
19:45-21:15 Yitzhak Brudny (Pennsylvania) Keynote Lecture: ‘Revolt against
Liberalism & Democracy’
SATURDAY JUNE 7TH
9:30-9:50 - Breakfast
10:00-11:15 - Remembering the Nation
Josie Von Zitzewitz (Oxford) ‘1970s Leningrad Poetry and the Silver Age’
Anya Melyantsev (Oxford) ‘VSKhSON, the All-Russian Social Christian Union
for the Liberation of the People: Sketch of an Anomaly or Portrait of the
Emerging Dissident Right’
Amy Bryzgel (Rutgers Univ.) ‘Afrika’s Crimania: Language, Collecting, and
Identity’
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 12:45 - Writing the Nation: Home
Friederike Carl (University of Freiburg i. Br.) ‘Discourses of Nation and
Gender in Gogol’s St. Petersburg Stories’
Joanne Shelton (Bath) ‘Defending Russia against Invasion from the West:
The use of Detective Fiction to reaffirm Russian National Identity in the
Post-Soviet Era’
Andrew Foxall (Oxford) ‘Geopolitics: Writing/ Righting the Russian
Nation’
12:45 - 13:30 - LUNCH
13:40 - 15:20 - Writing the Nation: Abroad
Lars Kristensen (St. Andrews) ‘Songs of Russians Abroad: ‘Stand by Your
Man’ or ‘On the Hills of Manchuria’
Kyrill Kunakhovich (Princeton) ‘The Pushkin Centennials of 1937: Russians
Abroad, the Soviet Union, & the Politics of Russian National Identity’
Muireann Maguire (Cambridge) ‘The Supernatural & the Representation of
Russian Reality in the Works of Russian Émigré Authors’
Darya Protopopova (Oxford) ‘The Idea of Russian National Character in
Publications on Russia in early 20th-century Britain’
PLEASE NOTE!
If you wish to attend the conference, you MUST register by sending an
email with your name, university affiliation, and research interests to
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Friday evening for a set conference fee of £15 please indicate this in
your email. Conference fees can be paid (by cheque only, made payable
to “RUSNAT”) in advance to the following address or on the day of the
conference:
Victoria Donovan
62 Woodstock Road,
Oxford, OX2 6JF
Registration will be confirmed by email.
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