PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME
April 1 (Friday)
10.30 a.m. — Opening speech by Irina Prokhorova (New Literary Observer journal)
Book launch: "The Rise of a Hero: From the History of Russian Emotional Culture. Late 18th Century and Early 19th Century" by Andrei Zorin (NLO, 2016)
12.00 p.m. — 2.30 p.m. Morning session:
Sentimental education
- Andrei Zorin (Oxford University, UK). State Order for Symbolic Images of Feeling in Russia in the Late 18th Century and Their Alternative Suppliers
- Victoria Frede (University of California, Berkeley, USA). Friendship, Secrecy and Dissent in Alexander I's Unofficial Committee
- Elena Marasinova (Institute of Russian history, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). "I Need a Different, Better Type of Freedom": Fronde of Russian Nobility in the 2nd Half of the 18th Century
3.30 p.m. — 6.30 p.m. Afternoon session:
Power — Society — Science
- Konstantin Bogdanov (Pushkin House, St Petersburg). System of Power and System of Things: History of Philately
- Natalia Skradol (University of Sheffield, UK). (Private) Functions and Geschlossene Gesellschaft: Professionals, Amateurs and Power
- Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Department of history, NRU HSE, St Petersburg). Soviet Ethnography and Invention of the West
April 2 (Saturday)
11.00 a.m. — 2.30 p.m. Morning session:
Artistic strategies
- Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra (Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK). Transparency, Occultation, and the Division of the Visible in Contemporary Mexican Public Art: The Case of the Pillar of Light in Mexico City
- Kirill Korchagin (New Literary Observer journal, Moscow). Conservative Revolution in Viktor Krivulin’s Aesthetic As a Form of Cultural Resistance
- Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania, USA). Poetry As Mobilizational Tool, 3.0
- Alexei Yurchak (University of California, Berkeley, USA). Monstration: Meaning, Absurd and Political Statement in Today’s Russia
3.30 p.m. — 7.00 p.m. Afternoon session:
The dialectics of (un)freedom
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University, USA). The "Dialectics" of Repression
- Ilya Kalinin (Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St Petersburg). "Stilyagi of the 21 Century". Stylistic Autonomy and Parochialism of the Political Horizon
- Catherine Guisan (University of Minnesota, USA). Rethinking Russian Democratization Through the “Politics of Resurrection”
- Alexei Levinson (Levada-Center, Moscow). Preparing for Freedom