Russia on Edge: Reclaiming the Periphery in Contemporary Russian Culture Interdisciplinary Workshop, 11-12 December 2009 (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)
Program
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Friday 11 December 2009
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:15 Introductory Remarks
09:15 - 10:45 Material Culture: Fashion, Architecture, Art
(Chair: Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds)
Djurdja Bartlett, London College of Fashion - Moscow on the Fashion Map: Between World Periphery and Russian Centre
Stanislav Savitskii, Smolny College St. Petersburg - Конструктивистская руина как язык современного искусства
Claire Shaw, University College London / SSEES - Fashion with Edge: Siberian Designers in Moscow
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:45 Politics and Counterdiscourses
(Chair: Vanessa rampton, University of Cambridge)
Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, University of Edinburgh - Playing with Meaning on the Periphery of Russian Counter-Discourse
Sander Brouwer, University of Groningen - Centre and Borders in Dugin & Prokhanov
Ivor Stodolsky, Aleksanteri Institute Helsinki - Living on the Archival Edge
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch/Break
14:30 - 16:30 Subcultures: Diaspora, Queerness, Ethnicity, Youth Cultures
(Chair: Muireann Maguire, Pushkinskii Dom, St. Petersburg)
Aline Ehrenfried, University of Aberdeen - Native Ethnic Identity in Siberia: From a Bird's Eye View
Hilary Pilkington, University of Warwick - "Воркута - это столица мира": Cultural Strategies for Life 'On the Edge'
Dan Healey, University of Swansea - Perverse Peripheries and Normal Centres: Situating the Queer in Gulag Memory Sarah Smyth, Trinity College Dublin - On Europe's Western Edge
16:30 - 17:15 Break
17:15 - 18:30 Keynote Speech
Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University - The Will to Connect: Plots and Fragments of Postsocialist Capitalism in Provincial Russia
Saturday 12 December 2009
09:00 - 10:00 Post-Soviet Cinema
(Chair: Emma Widdis, University of Cambridge)
Susan Larsen, University of Cambridge - TBA
Jeremy Hicks, Queen Mary, University of London - Centre and Periphery in the Documentary Films of Sergei Loznitsa
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Digital Discourses: New Media
(Chair: Ellen Rutten, University of Bergen)
Olga Goriunova, London Metropolitan University - Idiocy and New Media
Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds - Play, Modality and Claims of Nationhood: Russian Online Gaming
Henrike Schmidt, FU Berlin / Peter Szondi Institute - Voices from the Margins: Russian Bloggers from the Countryside
12:00-13:30 Working Lunch / Round Table Discussion
(Chair: Alexander Etkind)
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