Princeton University

 

Dumpster Diving and Sustainability:

 

Managing the Limited Resources of Culture

 

 

October 17-18, 2014

 

Schedule of Events

 

All panels in 010 East Pyne.

 

Papers available at 

http://dumpsterdivingandsustainability.wordpress.com/for-conference-participants/, password: 010eastpyne .

 

Friday, October 17

 

9:50-10:00       Opening Remarks

 

10:00-11:30     Panel 1:

Bad Conventions

 

Discussant: Jon Stone (Franklin & Marshall College)

Chair: Marcos Cisneros (Princeton University)

 

Tatyana Gershkovich (Harvard University)

Tolstoy’s “Bad” Art Theory

 

Philipp Kohl (Humboldt University of Berlin)

“Chto takoe khorosho i chto takoe plokho”: How Prigov Does Things with Values

                       

Elizaveta Berezina (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

“Formula painting”: Between Commerce and Artistic Inspiration

  

11:45-1:15       Panel 2:

The Politics of the Abject

 

Discussant: Ilya Vinitsky (University of Pennsylvania)

Chair: Victoria Juharyan (Princeton University)

 

Emily Wang (Princeton University)

Ryleev's Dumy and the Decembrist Conception of Russian History

 

Yana Skorobogatov (University of California, Berkeley)

Revolution on Their Mind: Writing a Solidarity Letter under Brezhnev

 

Theodora Kelly Trimble (University of Pittsburgh)

Eurovision and Global Performance: How Russian Pop Music “Soshla s uma”

 

2:30- 4:30        Panel 3:

Historical Landscapes

 

Discussant: Nariman Skakov (Stanford University)

Chair: Natalia Klimova (Princeton University)

 

Isabel Lane (Yale University):

Remnants of the Cold War: Nuclear Anxiety and Its Byproducts

 

Svetlana Sirotinina (Freie Universität Berlin)

Aleksei Ivanov and the Matrix of the Urals

 

Daniil Leiderman (Princeton University)

Trash, Zombies, Violence and the Post-Soviet Landscape

 

Elizabeth Pearl Morgan (McGill University, Montreal)

Re-purposing Literary ‘Trash’: Recycled History and Pseudointellectual Narrative in Boris Akunin’s Erast Fandorin Detective Novels

 

5:00-6:30         Keynote:         Catriona Kelly (University of Oxford)

Rubbish Art: Objects and Texts at the Borders of Culture

 

Saturday October 18

 

10:00-11:30     Panel 4:

The Discarded

 

Discussant: Helena Goscilo (The Ohio State University)

Chair: Massimo Balloni (Princeton University)

 

Roman Widder (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Poor People and Bad Writing: The Sentimentality of the Poor in Dostoevsky’s Bednye liudi

 

Jennifer Wilson (Princeton University)

The Importance of Being a Nihilist: Oscar Wilde's Vera

                       

Ksenia Nouril (Rutgers University)

Applying the Fantastic: Women and the Third Way in the Art of Polish Contemporary Artist Paulina Ołowska

 

11:45-1:15       Panel 5:

Abfallhandel: Consumption and Exchange

 

Discussant: Katherine Hill Reischl (Princeton University)

Chair: Geoff Cebula (Princeton University)

 

Natalie Ryabchikova (University of Pittsburgh)

The Soviet Cinephiles: ‘Bad Art’ and the Soviet Montage School

 

Rachel Wetzler (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Modernist Misappropriations: “The International Exhibition of Modern Art—Armory Show” in Yugoslavia

 

Thomas Skowronek (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Being Bad the Right Way: Sasnal and Kossack on the Polish Art Market

 

 

2:15-3:45         Exhibition and Lecture:

Blue Noses (219 Aaron Burr Hall)

(Translations by Alisa Ballard, Natalia Klimova)

 

3:45-4:30         Reception (Atrium, Aaron Burr Hall)

 

More information here: http://dumpsterdivingandsustainability.wordpress.com/schedule-of-events/

 

Sponsored by: The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Graduate School; Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Council of the Humanities; Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies; Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities; English Department; Department of French and Italian; and Program in European Cultural Studies