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May
9-10, 2014
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 (
ILONA
KISS (Russian Institute for Advanced Study /
Prometheus
vs. Woland: Transacting Sotsromantizm between
PHILIP
GLEISSNER (
The
Art of Wandering while Standing Still: Romantic Delusions in the Prose of
Stagnation
YVONNE
HOWELL (
From
Sots-Rom to the Rom-Com: How “Ponedel’nik nachinaetsia v subbotu” Became “Charodei”
ALAINA
LEMON (
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 (
ILYA
KALININ (Saint Petersburg State University/Neprikosnovennyi Zapas)
Russian
Cosmism in the Depths of the Soviet Cosmos
JULIANA
MAXIM (
Socialist
Pastoral: Intersections between the Folk and the Modern
JOHANNA
CONTERIO (
Developed
Socialism on Rest: Spiritual Pleasures and Landscapes of Health in the
OLIVER
SUKROW (
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 (
ELENA
GAPOVA (
Castles,
Princes and Other Aristocrats of Late Soviet
THOMAS
ROWLEY (
Modelling
Mayakovsky: Sacrifice, Self-fashioning and Dissent in the 1960s
SONJA
LUEHRMANN (
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 (
ALEXEY
GOLUBEV (
Affective
Machines or the Inner Self? Drawing the Borders of the Female Body in Late
Soviet Culture
ANNA
FISHZON (
Time
and the Romantic Sensibility in Brezhnev-Era Animation
ALEKSANDR
MERGOLD (
Ensemble
Koh-I-Noor: The Unlikely Cultural Chronicle of the Late Soviet Epoch
JULIANE
SCHICKER (The
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 (
IVAN
PESHKOV (
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 (
Romantika
with(out) Romantizm?: “The Fiery Revolutionaries” Biographical Series in Late Socialism
SERGEY
TOYMENTSEV (
Revolutionary
Sublime, Romantic Ennui and the Crisis of the Soviet Action-Image
12.00
– 13.45
Keynote
Address:
BORIS
GASPAROV (
Conquering
the Present: Soviet Culture in the Wake of the Stalinist Epoch
14.30
– 16.00
Panel
6. ROMANTIC POETICS
Moderator:
MARIJETA BOZOVIC (
GALINA
RYLKOVA (
A
Poet Must Suffer: Attempts at Re-Romanticizing the Life of a Russian/Soviet
Poet in the 1950s-1970s
RAISA
SIDENOVA (
From
Pravda to Vérité: “Poetic Schools” in Post-Stalinist Documentary Cinema
KEVIN
M. F. PLATT (
Latvian
Documentary Cinema: from Lyrical Socialism to Singing Revolution
16.30
– 18.30
Panel
7. SOCIALIST ROMANTICS?
Moderator:
VADIM BASS (
KATARÍNA
LICHVÁROVÁ (The Courtauld
Viktor
Pivovarov: Romanticizing Loneliness, Conceptualizing Socialism
DANIIL
LEIDERMAN (
What
Happened to the “Romantic” in “
MATTEO
BERTELE’ (Ca’
“The
Builders of
COURTNEY
DOUCETTE (
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 (
Marijeta
Bozovic (
Helena
Goscilo (The
Mark
Lipovetsky (The
Vera
Tolz-Zilitinkevic (The
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,