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>
> PRINCETON CONJUNCTION – 2014. AN ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCEP


> Romantic Subversions of Soviet Enlightenment: Questioning Socialism’s
> Reason (May 9-10, 2014, Princeton)
>
>
> http://sotsromantizm.princeton.edu/
>
> While many  recent studies of late socialism are structured around
> metaphors of absence and detachment, we want to shift attention to
> concepts, institutions, spaces, objects, and identities that enabled
> (rather than prevented) individual and collective involvement with
> socialism. Sotsromantizm offers a ground from which to challenge the
> emerging dogma that depicts late Soviet society as a space where pragmatic
> cynics coexisted with useful idiots of the regime. The romantic sensibility
> sought to discover new spaces for alternative forms of affective attachment
> and social experience; it also helped to curtail the self-defeating
> practices of disengagement and indifference. The conference aims at
> analyzing the double nature of sotsromantizm, understood both as a critique
> of the Soviet Enlightenment and as an alternative form of Soviet socialism.
>
> ROMANTIC SUBVERSIONS OF SOVIET ENLIGHTENMENT: QUESTIONING SOCIALISM’S
> REASON
>
> CONFERENCE PROGRAM
> Friday, May 9, 2014
>
> 9.00 – 11.00
> Panel 1.       DEVILS, GHOSTS, MAGICIANS, AND PROMETHEUS
> Moderator: MARK LIPOVETSKY (University of Colorado at Boulder)
>
> ILONA KISS (Russian Institute for Advanced Study / Sholokhov State
> University in Humanities, Moscow) Prometheus vs. Woland: Transacting
> Sotsromantizm between Hungary and the USSR PHILIP GLEISSNER (Princeton
> University) The Art of Wandering while Standing Still: Romantic Delusions
> in the Prose of Stagnation YVONNE HOWELL (University of Richmond) From
> Sots-Rom to the Rom-Com: How “Ponedel’nik nachinaetsia v subbotu” Became
> “Charodei”
> ALAINA LEMON (University of Michigan)
> After “Kinoglaz,” post “Ochi Chernye”: the Magical Gaze in Late Soviet
> Worlds
>
> 11.30 – 13.30
> Panel 2.      ROMANTIC SPACES & ORGANIC ORDERS
> Moderator: DEVIN FORE (Princeton University)
>
> ILYA KALININ (Saint Petersburg State University/Neprikosnovennyi Zapas)
> Russian Cosmism in the Depths of the Soviet Cosmos JULIANA MAXIM
> (University of San Diego) Socialist Pastoral: Intersections between the
> Folk and the Modern JOHANNA CONTERIO (Harvard University) Developed
> Socialism on Rest: Spiritual Pleasures and Landscapes of Health in the USSR
> OLIVER SUKROW (University of Heidelberg / Central Institute for Art History
> Munich) Subversive Landscapes: Wolfgang Mattheuer’s Landscape Paintings and
> the Romantic Tradition in the Visual Arts of the GDR
>
> 14.30 – 16.30
> Panel 3.      SPIRITUAL HEROES
> Moderator: VICTORIA SMOLKIN-ROTHROCK (Wesleyan University)
>
> ELENA GAPOVA (Western Michigan University) Castles, Princes and Other
> Aristocrats of Late Soviet Belarus: Gentrifying the Nation THOMAS ROWLEY
> (University of Cambridge) Modelling Mayakovsky: Sacrifice, Self-fashioning
> and Dissent in the 1960s SONJA LUEHRMANN (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
> Religious Revival or Sotsromantizm? Reconsidering the Dynamics of
> Brezhnev-Era Spiritual Culture ELEANOR PEERS (Max Planck Institute for
> Social Anthropology, in Halle/Saale) Surpassing The Romantic: The Shaman in
> the Poetics of Sakha’s National Revival
>
> 17.00 – 19.00
> Panel 4.    AFFECTIVE ASSEMBLAGES
> Moderator: SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (Princeton University)
>
> ALEXEY GOLUBEV (University of British Columbia) Affective Machines or the
> Inner Self? Drawing the Borders of the Female Body in Late Soviet Culture
> ANNA FISHZON (Williams College) Time and the Romantic Sensibility in
> Brezhnev-Era Animation ALEKSANDR MERGOLD (Cornell University) Ensemble
> Koh-I-Noor: The Unlikely Cultural Chronicle of the Late Soviet Epoch
> JULIANE SCHICKER (The Pennsylvania State University) Romanticism at the
> Gewandhaus? Masur, Mahler, and the Socialist Canon in the GDR
>
> Saturday, May 10, 2014.
>
> 9.30 – 11.30
> Panel 5.    FIERY REVOLUTIONARIES
> Moderator: MICHAEL KUNICHIKA (New York University)
>
> IVAN PESHKOV (Adam Mickiewicz University) Dreaming about Wild  Cossacks:
> Ataman Semenov and Memory Work in Transbaikalia IGOR GULIN (Kommersant
> Weekend) Gleb Panfilov’s “No Path Through Fire”: Reinventing Revolution for
> the “Thaw”
> POLLY JONES (University of Oxford)
> Romantika with(out) Romantizm?: “The Fiery Revolutionaries” Biographical
> Series in Late Socialism SERGEY TOYMENTSEV (Rutgers University)
> Revolutionary Sublime, Romantic Ennui and the Crisis of the Soviet
> Action-Image
>
> 12.00 – 13.45
> Keynote Address:
> BORIS GASPAROV (Columbia University),
> Conquering the Present: Soviet Culture in the Wake of the Stalinist Epoch
>
> 14.30 – 16.00
> Panel 6.   ROMANTIC POETICS
> Moderator: MARIJETA BOZOVIC (Yale University)
>
> GALINA RYLKOVA (University of Florida)
> A Poet Must Suffer: Attempts at Re-Romanticizing the Life of a
> Russian/Soviet Poet in the 1950s-1970s RAISA SIDENOVA (Yale University)
> From Pravda to Vérité: “Poetic Schools” in Post-Stalinist Documentary
> Cinema KEVIN M. F. PLATT (University of Pennsylvania) Latvian Documentary
> Cinema: from Lyrical Socialism to Singing Revolution
>
> 16.30 – 18.30
> Panel 7.   SOCIALIST ROMANTICS?
> Moderator: VADIM BASS (European University, St. Petersburg)
>
> KATARÍNA LICHVÁROVÁ (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London) Viktor
> Pivovarov: Romanticizing Loneliness, Conceptualizing Socialism DANIIL
> LEIDERMAN (Princeton University) What Happened to the “Romantic” in “Moscow
> Romantic Conceptualism”?
> MATTEO BERTELE’ (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) “The Builders of
> Bratsk” at the 1962 Venice Biennale: A Missed Connection COURTNEY DOUCETTE
> (Rutgers University) Sotsromantizm in the Age of Perestroika
>
> 18.45- 19.30
> Roundtable: SOTSROMANTIZM: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
> Participants: Mark Lipovetsky, Marijeta Bozovic, and Vadim Bass.
> Moderator: Serguei Oushakine.
>
> Program committee:
> Serguei Oushakine, Chair (Princeton University) Marijeta Bozovic (Yale
> University) Helena Goscilo (The Ohio State University) Mark Lipovetsky (The
> University of Colorado at Boulder) Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic (The University
> of Manchester)
>
> Sponsored by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies;
> Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of
> Slavic Languages and Literatures.
>
> Contacts: Kathleen B. Allen, Program Manager, Princeton Institute for
> International and Regional Studies, 210B Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton
> Univeristy, Princeton, NJ  08544, 609-258-5978 (office), 609-258-3988(fax).
> kballen at princeton.edu
>

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