Conference: Screened Sexuality: Desire in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Cinema (Oct 10-11, Columbia University)

[Andrey Shcherbenok]

SCREENED SEXUALITY:

DESIRE IN RUSSIAN, SOVIET, AND POST-SOVIET CINEMA

 

Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities

Harriman Institute

International Conference, Columbia University, New York

 

October 10-11, 2008

501 Schermerhorn

 

The conference is free and open to public, seating is on first come, first
served basis

 

 <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/screened_sexuality.html>
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/screened_sexuality.html

 

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

 

October 10, 2008

 

14:00 – 14:20

OPENING REMARKS

Cathy Nepomnyashchy (Harriman Institute, Columbia U) 

Andrey Shcherbenok (Society of Fellows, Columbia U)

 

14:20 – 16:40

Panel 1: CINEMATOGRAPHY OF DESIRE

Chair: Richard Pena (Columbia U)

Discussant: Rebecca Stanton (Columbia U)

 

Masha Salazkina (Colgate U) "Desire and Dialectical Montage: a
Reconsideration"

 

Nancy Condee (U of Pittsburgh), "Rape and Camera Work (Cranes Are Flying)"

 

Kristi McKim (Hendrix College), "Cinematic Desire as Overwhelming Gravity:
Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and the Contingency of Weight, Time, Space, and
Sexuality"

 

16:40 – 16:50 

COFFEE BREAK

 

16:50 – 19:10

Panel 2: SEXUALITY AS A SOCIAL SYMPTOM

Chair: Cathy Nepomnyashchy (Columbia U)

Discussant: Joan Neuberger (U of Texas)

 

Louise McReynolds (U of North Carolina CH), "Cinematic Desire and the Search
for Social Stability in the Films of Evgenni Bauer, 1907-1917"

 

Volha Isakava (U of Alberta) Sex, Crime and Videotape: Sexuality in the
Cinema of Perestroika

 

Gregory Carleton (Tufts U), "From First to Worst. Sex and the Afghan
Syndrome in Little Vera, Ninth Company and Cargo 200"

 

19:10 – 19:30

COFFEE BREAK

 

19:30 – 21:00

PRESENTATION: Factory of Gestures (DVD) by Oksana Bulgakowa (Internationale
Filmschule Köln)

 

October 11, 2008

 

10:00 – 12:50

Panel 3: STALIN, WOMEN, AND THE SPECTATOR

Chair: Anthony Anemone (The New School U)

Discussant: Dawn Seckler (U of Pittsburgh)

 

Irina Novikova (U of Latvia) "Couching Desire in Stalin’s Daughters"

 

Anne Moss (Johns Hopkins U) "Stalin's Harem: The Spectator's Dilemma in
1930s Soviet Film"

 

Anna Toropova (University College London), "Desire and jouissance in
Stalinist 'cult of personality' films"

 

Julia Cassiday (Williams College), "Eroticism, Adultery, and Espionage in
Engineer Kochin’s Mistake"

 

12:50 – 14:10

CATERED LUNCH (Location TBA)

 

14:10 – 16:00 

Panel 4: DESIRE AND HISTORY

Chair: Greta Slobin (Wesleyan U)

Discussant: Serguei Oushakine (Princeton U)

 

Oksana Bulgakowa (Internationale Filmschule Köln), “The New Masculinity of
the 50s, how to eroticize the film body of Soviet Man?”

 

Lilya Kaganovsky (U of Illinois U-S) "Desire, Stagnation, and the Cultural
Logic of Late Socialism"

 

16:00 – 16:10 

COFFEE BREAK

 

16:10 – 18:00

Panel 5: SEXUALITY, IDENTITY, IDEOLOGY

Chair: Katerina Clark (Yale U)

Discussant: James Steffen (Emory U)

 

Yulia Ladygina (UC Sand Diego) "The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. Vertov
in the Land of Beauty and Desire"

 

Dan Healey (Swansea U) "Erections that Prove the Rule: Nationality and
Identity in Russian Gay Men’s Pornography"

 

19:00

DINNER (Sezz Medi' Restaurant, 1260 Amsterdam Ave @ W 122nd Street)

 


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------