Programm
April 5-6, 2013
(Memorial Society, Karetny ryad 5/10)
Friday, April 5, 2013 г.
Conference opening: 11.00
Opening speech: Irina Prokhorova (New Literary Observer)
Morning session
Symbolization and fixation of traumatic experience
- Mikhail Yampolsky (New York University, USA)
Memorization of Holocaust as the Monument to Subjectivity - Andreas Schonle (University of London, UK)
The Boundaries of Representation and the Boundlessness of Trauma: Boris Smirnov's aestheticizing amateur photography of destroyed Cities - Helen Petrovsky (Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow).
The Pain of Daily Living
Coffee break: 14.00 – 15.00
Afternoon session: 15.00 – 19.00
Memorization of trauma in everyday practices and popular culture
- Jerome de Groot (University of Manchester, UK)
Memory and trauma in Anglophone historical film: some examples of recent practice - Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University, USA)
«The Grandson of a Soldier, who seized Berlin, the Son of a Soldier, who seized Kabul»: Narratives of Collapse as Rituals of Solidarity
3)Oleg V. Pachenkov (European University at St Petersburg)
Flea market as a space of N/Ostalgia
- Boris Gasparov (Columbia University, USA)
The image of the Soviet Union in the Modern Mass Consciousness
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Morning session: 11.00 – 14.00
(Un)official memorization of collective historical trauma
- Galina Orlova (Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don)
Atom and Melancholy: memorative Paths of One Big Half-Life Science - Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
No Pain, no Gain: Trauma and Discipline in the Russian School - Ilya Kalinin (Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg) Historicity of Traumatic Experience: Routine and Revolution
Coffee break: 14.00 – 15.00
Afternoon session: 15.00 - 18.00
Literary representation of traumatic experience
- Konstantin Bogdanov (Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg)
Master's Heels, the Memory of Serfdom and the Theory of Memes - Mikhail Weisskopf (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Dance with the Skull: Afanasy Fet`s ballad Motives as literary Representation of traumatic Experience - Andrei Zorin (Oxford University, UK)
Bereavement and «emotional community»