Cultural Memory in Russia: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Cambridge-NLO Research Workshop on "Cultural Memory”

Wednesday 18 April 2007

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

9.30 – 9.45 Introduction to the workshop. Dr Alexander Etkind.

9.45 – 11.00 Plenary Session. NLO. Chair: Professor Simon Franklin

Dr Irina Prokhorova and Professor Boris Kolonitskii

11.00 Coffee

11.30 – 1.00 Graduate Presentations I. Chair: Dr Jana Howlett.

Discussant: Dr Hubertus Jahn

a) Catherine Crimp. ‘Memories of Childhood and Family Life in Isaac Babel and Marcel Proust.’

b) Rachel Salzman. ‘Memoirs of 1840s. Images of St. Petersburg, the Tsar, and author'ties.’

c) Muireann Maguire. ‘What Russia Chooses to Forget: the Unacknowledged Life of Vera Kryzhanovskaya.’

1.00 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 Graduate Presentations II. Chair: Dr Polly Blakesley.

Discussant: Sander Brouwer

a) Ethan Alexander-Davey. ‘1612: The pitfalls of reinventing historical memory.’

b) Nadine Meisner. ‘Memory in Russian ballet: the losses, the revisions, the reconstructions.’

c) Luis Sundkvist. ‘The Mariinskii Ballet’s Reconstruction of ‘Sleeping Beauty.’

3.30 - 4.00 Tea

4.00 – 6.00 Graduate Presentations III. Chair: Boris Kolonitskii.

Discussant: Madeleine Reeves.

a) Olga Ulturgasheva. ‘Ghosts of the GULAG: the accursed topography of a native village in northeast Siberia.’

b) Ellen Rutten. ‘Digesting Stalin: Contemporary Approaches to Socialist Realism.’

c) Anthony Johnston. ‘Moscow’s Pamiatnik Gagarinu (1980): Approaches to Monumental Discourse.’

d) James Marson. ‘Lenin and the Battle for Herzen.’

6.00 – 6.15 Closing of the workshop. Professor Simon Franklin

7.30 Dinner

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