History and Subjectivity in Russia: Colloquium Program

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 Colloquium Program: History and Subjectivity in Russia (late 19th –
20th Centuries).

International Colloquium, St. Petersburg, June 7-10, 2010
http://history.rutgers.edu/dmdocuments/Petersburg_Conf_Program_English.pdf

The International St. Petersburg colloquium in Russian history,
organized by historians from Russia, the United States, and Western
Europe, is held every three years. The goal of the 2010 conference is to
engage with historical processes through the analytical lens of the
self. It will examine presuppositions about human behavior and ideals of
“personality” and humanity on the part of state and cultural authorities
from the late Imperial period to the breakup of the Soviet Union; it
will follow how these notions were set into motion over the course of a
long century of war and revolution; and it will study their effects on
the lives, personal horizons, and self-understandings of individuals.

These questions have not yet been investigated in any sustained or
comprehensive fashion. The conference sets out to do this, using
insights from historians, anthropologists, literary scholars,
philosophers, political scientists, and art historians. Beyond its
scholarly goals, the proposed collective inquiry into the standing of
the "personality" in modern Russian history carries obvious significance
for an understanding of political and cultural processes in Russia today.

The conference program was created from a pool of nearly 200 submissions
received from Russian, European, and American Scholars in response to an
earlier call for papers.

Papers can be downloaded from the websites of the St. Petersburg Institute
of History (http://www.spbiiran.nw.ru) <http://www.spbiiran.nw.ru/>
and the Rutgers University History
Department (http://history.rutgers.edu)

Program
Monday, 7 June
9.30 – 10.15 Registration
10.15 – 10.45 Welcoming Remarks

10:45 – 13.30 Morning session (break from 12.00 – 12.15):
Concepts of the Individual and the Self (lichnost') in Russian History
Chair: Nikolay Smirnov (St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAN)

Keynote Address:
Grigory Pomerants (Moscow), My Life and Engagement with 20th Century
Notions of Selfhood ()

Nikolay Plotnikov (University of Bochum, Germany), A Russian
Begriffsgeschichte of the State and the Self

Alexander Senyavsky (Institute of Russian History, RAN Moscow), Models
of Personal Behavior amidst the Transformations of Russian Society (late
19th-20th centuries)

Rainer Goldt (University of Mainz, Germany), The Self and the Ethos of
Science in the Late Soviet Union

Commentators: Jochen Hellbeck (Rutgers University), Oleg Kharkhordin
(European University of St. Petersburg)

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 17.30 Afternoon session (break from 16.00 – 16.15):
Political Revolutions and Individual Self-Definition (Late 19th
Century-1920s)
Chair: Gennady Sobolev (St. Petersburg State University)

Alexander Polunov (Moscow State University), The Personality Against the
Foil of Empire:Konstantin Pobedonostsev in the Eyes of the Contemporary
Russian Intelligentsia

Konstantin Morozov (Memorial Society, Moscow), Self-Practices of the
Revolutionary Subculture in the early 20th Century

Еlena Levkievskaya (Institute of Slavonic Studies, RAN, Moscow), The
Child and the Revolution: Personality Formation in an Era of Political
Crisis

Vladimir Buldakov (Institute of Russian History, RAN, Moscow), The
Destruction of the Revolutionary Self, 1924-1926

Maria Ferretti (University of Viterbo, Italy), Vasily Lyulin, Worker
from Yaroslavl: a Microhistory of the Genesis of Stalinism

Commentators: Vladimir Cherniaev (St. Petersburg Institute of History,
RAN), Daniel Orlovsky (Southern Methodist University)

Tuesday, 8 June
10.00 – 13.00 Morning session (break from 11.30 – 11.45):
Social Contexts of Subjectivity (late 19th Century – 1920s)

Chair: William Rosenberg (University of Michigan)

Barbara Engel (University of Colorado), Married Women and the Rights of
the Person

Mark Steinberg (University of Illinois), The Deformed and Decadent
Modern Self: Public Discourse on the Urban Self in Russia, 1906-1916

Boris Kolonitsky (St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAN), The
Representation of Power and its Social Perceptions during WW I and the
Revolution

Oleg Usenko (Tver State University), Models of Selfhood in Russian
Cinema, 1908-1919

Olga Velikanova (University of North Texas), The Formation of a Peasant
Identity: Modernizing and Traditional Discourses during the 1920s

Commentators: Laura Engelstein (Yale University), Anatolii Ivanov
(Institute of Russian History, RAN, Moscow)

14.30 – 17.30 Afternoon session (break from 16.00 – 16.15):
Self-Definition in the Face of an Other
Chair: Natalya Lebina (St. Petersburg State University of Economics and
Finance)

Laurie Manchester (Arizona State University), Bearers of
Pre-Revolutionary Traditions Become Soviet Citizens: the Self-fashioning
of Postwar Returnees from China

Natalya Timofeeva (Central Branch of the Russian Academy of
Jurisprudence; Center for Oral History, Voronezh), Exposed to
Germany: the Self-Definition of Members of the Soviet Military
Administration of Germany (1945-1949)

Alexander Chistikov (St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAN), Soviet
Tourists Abroad in the 1950s and 1960s

Dina Fainberg (Rutgers University), In Search of a Socialist
Soul: Soviet International Correspondents in the United States, 1950-1985

Commentators: Mikhail Khodiakov (St. Petersburg State University),
Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)

Wednesday, 9 June
10.00 – 13.00 Morning session (break from 11.30 – 11.45):
Constructing the Human Soul: The Stalin Period
Chair: Ziva Galili (Rutgers University)

Yves Cohen (EHESS Paris), Comparing Subjectivity Regimes in the Interwar
Period: the Soviet Union and France

Galina Orlova (Southern Federal University, Rostov-Don), Between Iron
Will and Irresolution: The Discursive Production of Will during the
Stalin Period

Andrei Shcherbenok (University of Sheffield), The Screened
Self: Stalinist Cinema and Its Implied Spectator

Franziska Thun-Hohenstein (Zentrum für Literaturforschung Berlin),
Inside the Laboratory of Soviet Biography: the "Lives of Extraordinary
People" Book Series (1933-1941)

Anna Eremeeva (Krasnodar State University of Culture and the Arts), In
the Genre of Hagiography: Constructing the Biographies of Russian
Scientists during Late Stalinism

Commentators: Igal Halfin (Tel Aviv University), Viktor Paneiakh (St.
Petersburg Institute of History, RAN)

Thursday, June 10
10.00 – 13.00 Morning session (break from 11.30 – 11.45):
Selfhood and War: 1914-1918, 1941-1945
Chair: Mark Steinberg (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Alexandre Sumpf (University of Strasbourg, France), Political
Mobilization and the Military Demobilization of Russian WW I Veterans
(1914-1921)

Emily Van Buskirk (Rutgers University), Lydia Ginzburg and the
Post-Individualist Self

Alexis Peri (University of California, Berkeley), Identity under Siege:
Reformulating and Recreating the Self inside the Leningrad Blockade

Polina Barskova (Hampshire College), Self-Portrait with Siege:
A Study in Traumatic Ekphrasis

Commentators: Nikita Lomagin (European University of St.
Petersburg), Irena Saleniece (Daugavpils University, Latvia)

14.30 – 17.30 Afternoon session (break from 16.00 – 16.15):
The Revival and Decline of the Socialist Personality – from the Thaw to
Perestroika and Beyond
Chair: Vladimir Noskov (St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAN)

Mikhail Rozhansky (Center for Independent Social Research and Education,
Irkutsk), The Euphoria of Collectivism:
"Shock-Work" Construction Brigades and their Tales

Anatoly Pinsky (Columbia University), The Conscience of a
Communist: The Making of Fedor Abramov, 1953-1958

Nikolay Mitrokhin (University of Bremen), Soviet Religious Scholars,
Atheism, and the Communist Central Committee Apparatus (1960s-1980-s)

Sergei Pankratov (Volgograd State University), The Transformation of the
Imperial Self in the Consciousness of My Generation, or: how the
Generation of Today's Forty-year Olds Looks Back at the 1980s and 1990s

Commentators: Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University), Alexandr Vakser
(St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAN)
17.45 – 18.30 Concluding Discussion
18.30 – 20.00 Farewell Reception

Conference location – European University of St. Petersburg, Aktovyi
zal, Gagarin Street 3 (Metro "Chernyshevskaya")

Protocol

The conference language is Russian. Papers will not be read at the
conference; participants are asked to read all papers ahead of time.
They can be downloaded from the websites of the St. Petersburg Institute
of History (http://www.spbiiran.nw.ru) <http://www.spbiiran.nw.ru/>
and the Rutgers University History
Department (http://history.rutgers.edu)

Organizers: Jochen Hellbeck (Rutgers University), Nikolay Mikhailov (St.
Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences)

St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences
European University of St. Petersburg Rutgers University Russian State
Scientific Foundation.

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