ASEEES 2012 Panel Proposal

[Mariya Boston]

Dear SEELANGers,
We would like to propose a panel for the 2012 ASEEES Convention: “BLACK
HUMOR in Contemporary Russian Culture.” We are looking for presenters and a
discussant.

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Our panel intends to address the role of black humor, comedy and satire in
the immediate Post-Soviet and Putin's Russia. We are interested in
exploring authentically Russian “*glumleniye*,” “*pofigizm*” and “*stiob*.”
Potentially, the panel might include explorations of films by such
directors as Balabanov, Meskhiev, Dykhovichny, Zeldovich, Khrzhanovsky,
Kachanov, and others, as well as discussions on pop/rock/rap music
(Leningrad, Vasya Oblomov, Noize MC, Rapper Syava, Lyapis Trubetskoy etc)
and projects such as “Citizen Poet” (Bykov/Yefremov).
We would like to address some of the following questions: Can black
humor/comedy be seen as an expression of Russians' bitter disappointment in
capitalism, democracy and freedom? Could it be read as an escape from the
reality of Putinist Russia in the 21st century? How does black comedy
interface with / represent drug and alcohol culture, sexual deviance,
violence, as well as linguistic cultures of “*mat*” and “*fenya*”? Does the
satire still carry its traditional "moralistic" role or does it gain new
meanings?

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If interested, please send your paper titles/short abstracts or questions
to *myboston at ucdavis.edu.*

Sincerely,
Mariya Boston (UC Davis), Alexei Lalo (Arizona State)

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