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-----Original Message----- From: ESRCs East West Programme [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Serguei A. Oushakine Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 2:33 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Princeton Conjunction - 2014. Conference Program: Romantic Subversions of Soviet Enlightenment: Questioning Socialism’s Reason (May 9-10, 2014, Princeton) May 9-10, 2014 PRINCETON CONJUNCTION – 2014. AN ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE http://sotsromantizm.princeton.edu/ While many recent studies of late socialism are structured around metaphors of absence and detachment, we want to shift attention to concepts, institutions, spaces, objects, and identities that enabled (rather than prevented) individual and collective involvement with socialism. Sotsromantizm offers a ground from which to challenge the emerging dogma that depicts late Soviet society as a space where pragmatic cynics coexisted with useful idiots of the regime. The romantic sensibility sought to discover new spaces for alternative forms of affective attachment and social experience; it also helped to curtail the self-defeating practices of disengagement and indifference. The conference aims at analyzing the double nature of sotsromantizm, understood both as a critique of the Soviet Enlightenment and as an alternative form of Soviet socialism. ROMANTIC SUBVERSIONS OF SOVIET ENLIGHTENMENT: QUESTIONING SOCIALISM’S REASON CONFERENCE PROGRAM Friday, May 9, 2014 9.00 – 11.00 Panel 1. DEVILS, GHOSTS, MAGICIANS, AND PROMETHEUS Moderator: MARK LIPOVETSKY (University of Colorado at Boulder) ILONA KISS (Russian Institute for Advanced Study / Sholokhov State University in Humanities, Moscow) Prometheus vs. Woland: Transacting Sotsromantizm between Hungary and the USSR PHILIP GLEISSNER (Princeton University) The Art of Wandering while Standing Still: Romantic Delusions in the Prose of Stagnation YVONNE HOWELL (University of Richmond) From Sots-Rom to the Rom-Com: How “Ponedel’nik nachinaetsia v subbotu” Became “Charodei” ALAINA LEMON (University of Michigan) After “Kinoglaz,” post “Ochi Chernye”: the Magical Gaze in Late Soviet Worlds 11.30 – 13.30 Panel 2. ROMANTIC SPACES & ORGANIC ORDERS Moderator: DEVIN FORE (Princeton University) ILYA KALININ (Saint Petersburg State University/Neprikosnovennyi Zapas) Russian Cosmism in the Depths of the Soviet Cosmos JULIANA MAXIM (University of San Diego) Socialist Pastoral: Intersections between the Folk and the Modern JOHANNA CONTERIO (Harvard University) Developed Socialism on Rest: Spiritual Pleasures and Landscapes of Health in the USSR OLIVER SUKROW (University of Heidelberg / Central Institute for Art History Munich) Subversive Landscapes: Wolfgang Mattheuer’s Landscape Paintings and the Romantic Tradition in the Visual Arts of the GDR 14.30 – 16.30 Panel 3. SPIRITUAL HEROES Moderator: VICTORIA SMOLKIN-ROTHROCK (Wesleyan University) ELENA GAPOVA (Western Michigan University) Castles, Princes and Other Aristocrats of Late Soviet Belarus: Gentrifying the Nation THOMAS ROWLEY (University of Cambridge) Modelling Mayakovsky: Sacrifice, Self-fashioning and Dissent in the 1960s SONJA LUEHRMANN (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Religious Revival or Sotsromantizm? Reconsidering the Dynamics of Brezhnev-Era Spiritual Culture ELEANOR PEERS (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, in Halle/Saale) Surpassing The Romantic: The Shaman in the Poetics of Sakha’s National Revival 17.00 – 19.00 Panel 4. AFFECTIVE ASSEMBLAGES Moderator: SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (Princeton University) ALEXEY GOLUBEV (University of British Columbia) Affective Machines or the Inner Self? Drawing the Borders of the Female Body in Late Soviet Culture ANNA FISHZON (Williams College) Time and the Romantic Sensibility in Brezhnev-Era Animation ALEKSANDR MERGOLD (Cornell University) Ensemble Koh-I-Noor: The Unlikely Cultural Chronicle of the Late Soviet Epoch JULIANE SCHICKER (The Pennsylvania State University) Romanticism at the Gewandhaus? Masur, Mahler, and the Socialist Canon in the GDR Saturday, May 10, 2014. 9.30 – 11.30 Panel 5. FIERY REVOLUTIONARIES Moderator: MICHAEL KUNICHIKA (New York University) IVAN PESHKOV (Adam Mickiewicz University) Dreaming about Wild Cossacks: Ataman Semenov and Memory Work in Transbaikalia IGOR GULIN (Kommersant Weekend) Gleb Panfilov’s “No Path Through Fire”: Reinventing Revolution for the “Thaw” POLLY JONES (University of Oxford) Romantika with(out) Romantizm?: “The Fiery Revolutionaries” Biographical Series in Late Socialism SERGEY TOYMENTSEV (Rutgers University) Revolutionary Sublime, Romantic Ennui and the Crisis of the Soviet Action-Image 12.00 – 13.45 Keynote Address: BORIS GASPAROV (Columbia University), Conquering the Present: Soviet Culture in the Wake of the Stalinist Epoch 14.30 – 16.00 Panel 6. ROMANTIC POETICS Moderator: MARIJETA BOZOVIC (Yale University) GALINA RYLKOVA (University of Florida) A Poet Must Suffer: Attempts at Re-Romanticizing the Life of a Russian/Soviet Poet in the 1950s-1970s RAISA SIDENOVA (Yale University) From Pravda to Vérité: “Poetic Schools” in Post-Stalinist Documentary Cinema KEVIN M. F. PLATT (University of Pennsylvania) Latvian Documentary Cinema: from Lyrical Socialism to Singing Revolution 16.30 – 18.30 Panel 7. SOCIALIST ROMANTICS? Moderator: VADIM BASS (European University, St. Petersburg) KATARÍNA LICHVÁROVÁ (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London) Viktor Pivovarov: Romanticizing Loneliness, Conceptualizing Socialism DANIIL LEIDERMAN (Princeton University) What Happened to the “Romantic” in “Moscow Romantic Conceptualism”? MATTEO BERTELE’ (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) “The Builders of Bratsk” at the 1962 Venice Biennale: A Missed Connection COURTNEY DOUCETTE (Rutgers University) Sotsromantizm in the Age of Perestroika 18.45- 19.30 Roundtable: SOTSROMANTIZM: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? Participants: Mark Lipovetsky, Marijeta Bozovic, and Vadim Bass. Moderator: Serguei Oushakine. Program committee: Serguei Oushakine, Chair (Princeton University) Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University) Helena Goscilo (The Ohio State University) Mark Lipovetsky (The University of Colorado at Boulder) Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic (The University of Manchester) Sponsored by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Contacts: Kathleen B. Allen, Program Manager, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, 210B Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton Univeristy, Princeton, NJ 08544, 609-258-5978 (office), 609-258-3988 (fax). [log in to unmask]