PRINCETON CONJUNCTION – 2014
AN ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
May 9-10, 2014
219 Aaron Burr Hall
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: SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (Princeton University)
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: MARK LIPOVETSKY (University of Colorado at Boulder)
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 Kohinor: A 40-year Сhronicle of the Late Soviet Zeitgeist
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: De-Romanticizing the Life of a Russian/Soviet Poet in the 1950s-1970s
RAISA SIDENOVA (Yale University)
Personal, Intimate, Soulful: A Romantic Period of the Soviet Poetic Documentary
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)
Images:
Tahir Salakhov, S vakhty, 1957 (a fragment);
Alexander Deineka, U moria. Rybachki, 1956 (a fragment);
Viktor Popkov, from the series Transport, 1958 (a fragment);
Viktor Popkov, Severnaia pesnia, 1960 (a fragment)
Sponsored by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
