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From: Serguei A. Oushakine <oushakin@Princeton.EDU>
List Editor: Jelena Karanovic <h-sae@KARANOVIC.ORG>
Editor's Subject: H-SAE: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Russia on Edge: Reclaiming the Periphery in Contemporary Russian Culture (11-12 December 2009, University of Cambridge)
Author's Subject: H-SAE: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Russia on Edge: Reclaiming the Periphery in Contemporary Russian Culture (11-12 December 2009, University of Cambridge)
Date Written: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:16:23 -0500
Date Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2009 11:16:23 -0500

Russia on Edge: Reclaiming the Periphery in Contemporary Russian Culture
Interdisciplinary Workshop, 11-12 December 2009 (CRASSH, University of
Cambridge)

Program
http://www.ellenrutten.nl/russiaonedgeabout.htm

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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