Contemporary Russian Culture Workshop, 11-12 December 2009, University of Cambridge

[Ellen Rutten]

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> With apologies for cross-posting.
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> *RUSSIA ON EDGE: RECLAIMING THE PERIPHERY IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE*
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> Friday, 11 to Saturday, 12 December 2009
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> CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, University of Cambridge
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> Conveners: Dr Ellen Rutten, Dr Muireann Maguire, Vanessa Rampton
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> Deadline for registration: *30 November 2009*
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> Deadline for accommodation booking (please reserve asap): *20 November
> 2009*
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> Website: *http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1090/*<http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1090/>
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> Email: russiaonedge at gmail.com
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> Bringing together scholars from the US, the UK, Russia, the Netherlands,
> Scandinavia, and Germany, the *Russia on Edge* workshop will explore a
> range of contemporary developments in Russian culture and society, with a
> particular focus on the dynamic between centre and periphery in its various
> manifestations. That cultural production cannot be isolated from
> geographical, political and economic considerations is true for any place
> and time – but in post-Soviet Russia, novels, films, art works,
> architectural projects and even blogs have increasingly been functioning as
> agents that chip away at the hegemony of the discourse, imagery and power of
> the centre. The means, aims, and results of this new Russian project will
> be examined in this two-day interdisciplinary workshop.
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> Panels will address the question to what extent the dynamic between centre
> and periphery remains relevant for approaching Russian culture, whether
> there is evidence for a shift in cultural focus from Russia’s political
> centre to its geographical periphery, and the ideas of centrifugal power
> sources and competing centres. Speakers will explore the relationship
> between centre and periphery in relation to fashion, contemporary art, new
> media, blogs, gay culture, ‘marginal’ social groups, cinema and political
> imagery.
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> Dr Sergei Oushakine, University of Princeton, will deliver the keynote
> speech entitled: The Will to Connect: Plots and Fragments of Postsocialist
> Capitalism in Provincial Russia.
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> Conference registration is free for postgraduate students/unwaged but
> limited. Therefore we advise you to register as soon as possible. To
> register, please follow the instructions at the following page:
> http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1090/.
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