Call for Papers: Information Technologies in Russian Culture

[Simon Franklin]

University of Cambridge
Department of Slavonic Studies

The Fourth Fitzwilliam Colloquium on Russian History and Culture
27-29 August 2008

"Media in Flux: Information Technologies in Russian Culture"

Building on the success of the last Fitzwilliam Conference (“Crossing Borders: Translations 
and Transpositions in Russian Culture”), which was devoted to the interrelationships and 
interpenetrations of cultural genres and forms, the 2008 conference will consider the 
interplay of cultural technologies, especially in periods of innovation and change. What have 
been the cultural implications of technological change? How has the broader ‘ecology’ of 
culture been affected by the introduction and development of e.g. writing, printing and other 
modes of duplication, electronic storage and transmission, technologies for the storage and 
projection of images, etc. etc.? To what extent are existing cultural technologies supplanted, 
restricted, or modified, but the appearance of new technologies? How have notionally 
competing technologies adapted to one another (e.g. film-television-video-digital recording; 
live performance-sound recording; letter-writing-email-texting; painting-printed illustration; 
hand-copying-typewriting-printing and other forms of duplication; telephones-internet 
chatrooms, etc. etc.). We are interested in assembling panels relating to a broad range 
cultural media, and touching on all periods of Russian cultural history.

Please send suggested titles of papers, together with a brief description (not more than 100 
words) to: Professor Simon Franklin at slavon at hermes.cam.ac.uk, by 15 January 2008

Further details will be available shortly on the Departmental website: http://
www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/news/ 

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