Conference on British-Soviet Cultural Relations

[Lygo, Emily]

I am pleased to announce that booking is now open for the one-day conference:
British-Soviet Friendship and Cultural Exchange: promotion, partnership and propaganda
Saturday 24 May 2014

320 Brixton Road, London  SW9 6AB



Registration, including refreshments: £20.

Booking available here<http://store.exeter.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=16&prodid=739> (closes 19 May)

Conference Programme:



9.30am Registration, Coffee, and Welcome

10.00am Panel 1: Anglo-Soviet Cultural Exchange in Music and Literature

Dr Pauline Fairclough (Bristol University) - 'Anglo-Soviet Musical Exchanges and the early cold war'.

Ms Louise Wiggins (Bristol University) - 'Alan Bush and the promotion of musical exchange with the USSR'.

Dr Emily Lygo (University of Exeter), 'The SCR Writers' Group in the Post-war Period'.

11.30am Panel 2: Soviet Culture in Britain: Exchange and Influence

Dr Matthew Taunton (UEA) - 'Writing the Moscow Trials: Anglo-Soviet Debates about Jurisprudence'.

Professor Stephen Ward (Oxford Brookes University), 'Planning & architecture links with the USSR in the Khrushchev Thaw period'.

Ms Sonja Grossmann (Universities of Tubingen and Munich), 'Soviet "friendship societies" in Britain between propaganda and cultural exchange'.

1pm Lunch

2.30pm Panel 3: Soviet Culture in Britain: Visual Arts and Artefacts

Mr John Riley - (independent scholar, ex-BFI), 'Communism, Aristocrats, Table-tennis and Voles: the Film Society's Promotion of Soviet Film in 1920s London'.

Dr Patricia Simpson (University of Hertfordshire), 'Tales from the "Russian Room" at Down House, Kent, 1956-1964'.

Dr Alison McClean (University of Bristol) - 'Painting the Town Red: The SCR and the Visual Arts in Britain in the 1930s'.



4pm Tea

4.30pm Panel 4: Soviet Literature and Culture in Print

Dr Elena Zemskova and Dr Elena Ostrovskaia (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), 'The Journal International Literature (English version), 1932-43'.

Mr Andrew Jameson, (ex- University of Lancaster), 'The Development of the Anglo-Soviet Journal'.

Dr Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia (British Library), 'The British Library resources on Anglo-Russian relations'.

6pm Closing remarks and finish by 6.30pm





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