Russia on Edge: Reclaiming the Periphery in Contemporary Russian Culture
Interdisciplinary Workshop, 11-12 December 2009 (CRASSH, University of
Cambridge)
http://www.ellenrutten.nl/russiaonedgeprogram.htm
Program
Friday 11 December 2009
09:15 - 09:45 Registration
09:45 - 09:55 Introductory Remarks
10:00 - 11:00 Material Culture and Fashion
(Chair: Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds)
Djurdja Bartlett, London College of Fashion - Moscow on the Fashion Map:
Between World Periphery and Russian Centre
Claire Shaw, University College London / SSEES - Fashion with Edge:
Siberian Designers in Moscow
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 13:00 Politics and Counterdiscourses
(Chair: Vanessa rampton, University of Cambridge)
Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, University of Edinburgh - Playing with Meaning on
the Periphery of Russian Counter-Discourse
Sander Brouwer, University of Groningen - Centre and Borders in Dugin &
Prokhanov
Ivor Stodolsky, Aleksanteri Institute Helsinki - Living on the Archival
Edge: The Closure of the Petersburg Archive and Library of Independent
Art and the Afterlife of Nonconformist Art
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch/Break
14:00 - 15:30 Subcultures: Diaspora, Queerness, Ethnicity, Youth
Cultures
(Chair: Eleanor Peers, University of Cambridge)
Aline Ehrenfried, University of Aberdeen - Native Ethnic Identity in
Siberia: From a Bird's Eye View
Hilary Pilkington, University of Warwick - 'Skinhead Is a Movement of
Action': the Ideological, the Political and the Personal in Extreme
Youth (Sub)Cultural Strategies
Dan Healey, University of Swansea - Perverse Peripheries and Normal
Centres: Situating the Queer in Gulag Memory
15:30 - 16:00 Break
6:00 - 17:15 Keynote Speech
Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University - The Will to Connect: Plots and
Fragments of Postsocialist Capitalism in Provincial Russia
17:15 - 18:00 Wine Reception
19:30 Dinner @ Trinity College (Allhusen Room), Cambridge
Saturday 12 December 2009
09:00 - 10:00 Post-Soviet Cinema
(Chair: Emma Widdis, University of Cambridge)
Susan Larsen, University of Cambridge - Eccentric Retrospection and
Imaginary Margins: Recent Russian Cinema In Search of a Usable Past
Jeremy Hicks, Queen Mary, University of London - Centre and Periphery in
the Documentary Films of Sergei Loznitsa
10:30 - 12:00 Digital Discourses: New Media
(Chair: Ellen Rutten, University of Bergen)
Olga Goriunova, London Metropolitan University - Idiocy and New Media
Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds - Play, Modality and Claims of
Nationhood: Russian Online Gaming
Henrike Schmidt, FU Berlin / Peter Szondi Institute - Voices from the
Margins: Russian Bloggers from the Countryside
12:00 - 12:15 Intermission
12:15 - 13:30 Working Lunch / Round Table Discussion
(Chair: Alexander Etkind)
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