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

Image: Viktor Popkov, Osennie dozhdi, 1974 (a fragment)