Reconsidering Stagnation
International Workshop
University of Amsterdam
March 30-31, 2012
Preliminary Programme
Day 1 – Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210
10:00 AM
Introduction What we talk about when we talk about “stagnation.”
• Artemy Kalinovsky (UvA)
• Dina Fainberg (Rutgers)
11:00 – 12:30
1. Ideological Changes and Mobilisation Chair: Marc Jansen (UvA)
• Polly Jones (Oxford University): The Fire Burns on? The Fiery Revolutionaries series, and the last Soviet generation of writers and readers
• Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock (Wesleyan University): Utopia’s Orphans: Soviet Atheists and the Spiritual Crisis of Late Soviet Communism
• Svetlana Savranskaya (George Washington University): Dissidents In The Stagnation Period--Making Human Rights Discourse Part Of The National Agenda
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30 to 3:00 PM
2. Everyday Life, Mobility, and Travel Chair: Otto Boele (Leiden)
• Alexandra Oberlander (University of Bremen): "What sort of stagnation can there be when your entire life is wrapped up in work?": A Cultural History of Work in the Brezhnev Era.
• Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University): People on the Move during the “Era of Stagnation”
• Christian Noack (UvA) Brezhnev’s “Little Freedoms”, or: Tourism, Individuality and Mobility in the late Soviet Period
3:15- to 5:00 PM
3. East and West: exchange, imagination, and competition Chair: Michael Kemper (UvA)
• Simo Mikkonnen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): Dynamic Developments: Soviet Transnational Networks with the West under Brezhnev
• Courtney Doucette (Rutgers University): Norton Dodge in Lianozovo: Transnational Collaboration and the Making of the Unofficial Soviet Artist
• Steven Harris (University of Mary Washington): “The Supersonic Seventies: Aeroflot and Pan Am in the Brezhnev Era.”
Day 2 – University Library, Singel 425
10:00 – 11:30 AM
4. Economic Thought and Technological Development Chair: Artemy Kalinovsky (UvA)
• Sari Autio Sarasmo (Aleksanteri Institute, Finland): East-West interaction and the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev leadership
• Timothy Nunan (Oxford University): Soviet Development Thought and the “Central Asian Consensus,” c. 1917-1982
• Anna Geltzer (Cornell University): The Wild West in the Communist East: Soviet anti-cancer drug development in the Brezhnev era
12:00 – 1:15 PM
5. Stagnation on Screen: Past and Present Chair: Christian Noack (UvA)
• Andrey Shcherbenok (St. Petersburg State University): Everything Was Over before It Was No More: Decaying Civilization in Late Stagnation Cinema
• Otto Boele (Leiden University) The Glamour of Stagnation. Brezhnev and Galina in Contemporary Russian Film
1:15 – 2:30 Lunch
2:30 – 4:00 PM
6. Popular Culture Chair: Dina Fainberg (Rutgers)
• Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University): The Grotesque of the Typical: Masking Jokes in Soviet Comedy
• Julian Fürst (University of Bristol): When you come to Moscow, make sure that you have flowers in your hair (and a bottle of portwine your pocket): The Life and World of the Soviet Hippies under Brezhnev
• Anna Fishzon (Williams College): Re-Animating Stagnation: the Magical Times and Spaces of late-Soviet Children’s Culture
4:15 – 6:00 PM
7. Closing Panel: Remembering Stagnation
Stephen F. Cohen, Louis Siegelbaum, Svetlana Savranskaya
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