Conf.: Russia at the End of the 20th C.

[Anne Eakin]

ANNOUNCEMENT

Stanford University

International Conference

RUSSIA AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY:
Culture and its Horizons in Politics & Society
 
Stanford, November 5-7, 1998
www.stanford.edu/group/Russia20/

An international conference on Russia - "Russia at the End of the 20th
Century" -discussing contemporary culture, society, politics and economics,
and featuring contemporary music and film, will be held at Stanford
University Nov. 5 to 7. All events are open and free to the public.
Detailed information is available on the conference website:
www.stanford.edu/group/Russia20/

Russia's current crisis recalls another crisis earlier in our century, one
that radically transformed the country and, along with it, the course of
world events. The aim of the Stanford conference is to illuminate the
complexity of Russia today, to grasp the magnitude of this moment in its
history. The events of the last decade have taught us all that Russian
culture cannot be understood in isolation from politics and society, nor
Russian politics and society make sense without reference to how the
Russians perceive and assimilate the sharp shifts in power relations,
social structure, and economy. All of the conference participants, be they
top government advisors, cultural historians, magazine editors, or social
scientists, are keenly aware of this complexity and will address a broad
range of subjects -- from contemporary literature, visual arts, music, and
film to new conceptions of Russian history, radical changes in its
political, social, and economic institutions, its foreign policy and its
standing abroad. An event celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of
Stanford's School of Humanities & Sciences, the conference reflects the
School's commitment to multidisciplinary teaching and research. Among the
highlights:

Strobe Talbott, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, will deliver the keynote
speech of the conference: "Russia in the Global Order."

Malcolm Beasley, the new Dean of Stanford's School of Humanities and
Sciences, will give the conference welcoming address: "Multidisciplinary
Education in Space-Time: The View of a Physicist Dean."

Other speakers and participants include distinguished academic experts from
a variety of disciplines from America, Russia, Italy, and Germany, top U.S.
and Russian government advisors and officials, editors and publishers of
major Russian periodicals. 

The conference maintains an extensive Internet site:
www.stanford.edu/group/Russia20/. The site features the conference program,
list of the participants with brief  biographies, abstracts of the papers
to be presented, and a gallery of audio-visual items. 

The conference is organized by the Stanford Department of Slavic Languages
& Literatures. The principal sponsor is Stanford's School of Humanities &
Sceinces. Other sponsors include: Stanford Humanities Center, Division of
Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Center for Russian and East European
Studies, Institute for International Studies, Dean of Research, and Dean of
Undergraduate Studies.

The conference organizing committee: Gregory Freidin of Stanford University
(Chair), Evgeny Dobrenko (Karl Lowenstein Fellow in political science at
Amherst College), and Andrey Zorin (the Russian State Humanites University
and Stanford Overseas Center in Moscow).

For further information write to the Conference Coordinator c/o Slavic
Dept., Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2006, call: 650-725-0707, pr
visit our website at: www.stanford.edu/group/Russia20/

The conference is free and open to the public, with all the facilities
wheel-chair accessible.

The list of the conference participants and the conference program are
attached below.

  
Conference Panels & Participants


Keynote Speaker: the Honorable Strobe Talbott, U. S. Deputy Secretary of
State 
Friday, November 6, 4:30 PM, Tresidder Oak Lounge
I. Russia and Artistic Imagination: Contemporary Art and Music

Chair: Monika Greenleaf (Stanford)
Margarita Tupitsyn (New York) 
Richard Taruskin (Berkeley)

Music Recital

Thomas Schultz (Stanford), piano
Susan Freier (Stanford), violin

II. The New Russia Defines Her Past 

Chair: Amir Weiner (Stanford) 
Peter Holquist (Cornell) 
Evgeny Dobrenko (Amherst)
Natalya Ivanova (Moscow)
Oksana Bulgakowa (Vienna and Stanford)
Comments: Gregory Freidin (Stanford)

III. From Russia's Post-Soviet Space to Russia's Place 

Chair: Coit D. Blacker (Stanford)
Emil Pain (Moscow)
Manuel Castells (Berkeley)
Sergey Kortunov (Moscow) 
Comments: David Holloway (Stanford)


Film Screening and Discussion
(In That Country, 1997)

Nancy Condee (Pittsburgh)
Vladimir Padunov (Pittsburgh)

IV. The Emergence of Society and Its Cultures 

Chair: Gail Lapidus (Stanford) 
Boris Dubin (Moscow)
Katerina Clark (Yale)
Andrey Zorin (Moscow)
Alexei Levinson (Moscow)
Masha Lipman (Moscow)
Comments: Victor Zaslavsky (Rome)

V. New and Improved: Post-Soviet Institutions, Meaning and Practice 

Chair: Nancy Tuma (Stanford) 
Vadim Volkov (St. Petersburg)
Vladimir Mau (Moscow)
Lev Gudkov (Moscow)
Irina Prokhorova (Moscow)
Comments: Michael McFaul (Stanford)

Summing Up

Hayden V. White (Stanford, U.C., Santa Cruz)
 Conference Program


Thursday, November 5, 1998
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Campbell Recital Hall


Introductory Remarks. Gregory Freidin, Chairman, Department of Slavic
Languages & Literatures, Stanford University

Welcoming Address. "Multi-Disciplinary Education in Space-Time: The View of
a Physicist Dean," Malcolm Beasley, Dean, School of Humanities & Sciences,
Stanford University

I. Russia and Artistic Imagination: Contemporary Art and Music

Chair:  Monika Greenleaf (Slavic Department, Stanford University)
7:45 - 8:15 - Margarita Tupitsyn (Independent Scholar and Curator, New
York), "The City: After and Double After" 

8:20 - 8:50 - Richard Taruskin (Professor, Department of Music, U.C.,
Berkeley), "The Birth of Contemporary Russia Out of the Spirit of Russian
Music"

9:00 - 9:50 - Recital. Thomas Schultz, piano, and Susan Freier, violin
(Music Department, Stanford University)
            Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Prelude and Fugue in E flat,
Op.87 (early 1950s)
            Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-), Piano Sonata No. 6 (1988)
             Alfred Schnittke (1934-), Piano Sonata No. 2 (1990-91)
             Sofia Gubaidulina (1932-), Dancer on a Tightrope (Der
Seiltänzer) for violin 
             and piano (1993)


Friday, November 6, 1998

II. The New Russia Defines Her Past 
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Tresidder Oak Lounge

Chair: Amir Weiner (Department of History, Stanford University)

Peter Holquist (Department of History, Cornell University), "Constructing a
New Past: Soviet Experience in Post-Soviet Historiography" 
Evgeny Dobrenko (Political Science and Russian, Amherst College), "Between
History and the Past: (Post-)Soviet Art of Re-Writing"
Natalya Ivanova (Znamya, Moscow), "A New Mosaic - Old Fragments: Re-Coding
Soviet History in Contemporary Russian Prose"
Oksana Bulgakowa (Film Studies and Slavic, Stanford and University of
Vienna), "Constructing the Past in Contemporary Russian Film and Architecture"

Comments (Prof. Gregory Freidin, Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Stanford University)

Discussion, Q&A

III. From Russia's Post-Soviet Space to Russia's Place 
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Tresidder Oak Lounge

Chair: Coit D. Blacker (IIS, Stanford University)

Emil Pain (Advisor to the President of Russia, Moscow), "Identity,
Citizenship, Homeland: Center and Periphery in Russia's Ethno-Cultural Space"
Manuel Castells (Urban Studies and Sociology, U.C., Berkeley), "Russia and
the Network Society"
Sergey Kortunov (Deputy Chief of Staff of the Defense Council, Office of
the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow), "Russia: Imperial
Ambitions and National Interest"

Comments (Prof. David Holloway, Political Science & History, Stanford
University) and Masha Lipman, Deputy Editor-In-Chief, news magazine Itogi
(Moscow)

Keynote Speech by the Honorable Strobe Talbott, U. S. Deputy Secretary of
State, "Russia in the Global Order" 
Tresidder Oak Lounge, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Q&A

Film Screening and Discussion
Cubberley Auditorium
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM

V toi strane a.k.a. In That Country, dir. Lydia Bobrova (Roskino, 1997).
Introduction by Nancy Condee & Vladimir Padunov (Slavic, University of
Pittsburgh)

Saturday, November 7, 1998

IV. The Emergence of Society and Its Cultures 
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Tresidder Oak Lounge

Chair: Gail Lapidus (IIS, Stanford University)

Boris Dubin (Russian Center for Public Opinion Research, Moscow),
"Intelligentsia between the Classics and Mass Culture"
Katerina Clark (Slavic & Comparative Literature, Yale University),
"Intelligentsia Ideology: The King is Dead! Long Live the King?"
Andrey Zorin (Russian Studies, Russian State Humanities University,
Moscow), "Are We Having Fun Yet: Holidays, Celebration, Rituals and
Commemorations in Russia After Communism"
Alexei Levinson (Russian Center for Public Opinion Research, Moscow), "TV
and Mass Media: Constructing a New Russian Consumer"

Comments, Victor Zaslavsky (Sociology, University of Rome)

Discussion, Q&A

V. New and Improved: Post-Soviet Institutions, Their Meaning and Practice 
2:00 PM - 5:50 PM
Tresidder Oak Lounge

Chair: Nancy Tuma (Chair, Department of Sociology, Stanford University)

Vadim Volkov (Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg), "When the
State is Weak, Who is Strong? Russia's New Configuration of Social Groups"
Vladimir Mau (Working Center for Economic Reform, Government of the Russian
Federation, Moscow), "Continuity and Revolution in Contemporary Russia"
Lev Gudkov (Department of Social & Political Studies, Russian Center for
Public Opinion Research, Moscow), "Neo-Traditionalism as the Ideological
Program of Educated Society"
Irina Prokhorova (Publisher, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie and
Neprikosnovennyi zapas, Moscow), "Old Wine * New Skins, New Wine * Old
Skins: Journals, Publishing, and the Institutionalization of Culture in New
Russia"

Comments (Michael McFaul, Department of Political Science, Hoover
Institution, Stanford University)

Hayden V. White (Stanford University, UCSC), Summing Up
 CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

Stanford University
School of Humanities & Sciences
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Stanford Humanities Center
Institute for International Studies
Center for Russian & East European Studies
Dean of Research
Dean of Undergraduate Studies

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Gregory Freidin (Stanford University)
Evgeny Dobrenko (Amherst College)
Andrei Zorin (Russian State Humanites University, Moscow)