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RUSSIA IN TIME - TIME IN RUSSIA
Exploring Russian Culture through the Prism of Time
The Centre for Russian Studies in the School of Slavonic and East European
Studies announces a one-day conference, to be held in room 336, SSEES,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E on Thursday 11 July, 2002.
Papers will be twenty minutes long. A volume of essays is proposed,
drawing on selected papers from the series and the conference. The full
fee for non-SSEES participants will be GBP15. Concessions (non-SSEES
students and unwaged): GBP5. Please make cheques payable to "University
College London". Payment in sterling only.
ALL INTENDING PARTICIPANTS are asked to register in advance. Please
contact Sherina Ayub, e-mail to [log in to unmask] or call in or write to
Room 271, SSEES, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU. The convenor is Professor
Lindsey Hughes [log in to unmask] Tel. +44-20 7862 8572
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME [Please see our web page on www.ssees.ac.uk for
updates]
10.30 Registration and Coffee: Third Floor Foyer, SSEES, Senate House
11.00 -13.00 Panel 1: Time in the Work of Andrei Platonov
Angela Livingstone (Essex): 'Time in Chevengur'
Robert Chandler: 'Platonov's Dzhan: Living through Time'
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Panel 2
Faith Wigzell (SSEES): 'Time and the Future in the Peasant World
View'
Irina Paert (Bangor): 'Appropriating Sacred Time: Old Believers
and their Temporal Practices'
Stephen Lovell (KCL): 'Ageing, Biography and Finitude:
Understanding the Life Span in Nineteenth-Century Russia'
16.00-16.30. Tea
16.30-18.30 Panel 3
Rosalind P. Gray (Kent): 'The Generational Identity of the
"Artists of the '60s"'
John Milner (Newcastle: '"Beyond the Blue Horizon": Escaping Solar
Time in the Russian Futurist Opera Victory over the Sun'
Steven Hutchings (Surrey): 'Photography, Time and the Mediated
Self in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Russian Fiction'
18.30 Reception: Third Floor Foyer, SSEES, Senate House
To be confirmed:
Viktoria Kravchenko (New Humanity Nesterova University,
Moscow): 'The Apocalypse Project in Alexander Scriabin's
"Mystery"'
Professor Lindsey Hughes
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Senate House, Malet Street.
London WC1E 7HU, UK tel. (+44) 020 7862 8572
