Dumpster Diving and SustainabilityManaging the Limited Resources of Culture
BLUE NOSES EXHIBITION & LECTURE Saturday, October 18th 2:15-3:45Room 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Sponsored by: The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Graduate School, REEES, the Council of the Humanities, PIIRS, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, IHUM, the English Department, the Department of French and Italian, and the Program in European Cultural Studies
Bad Conventions10/17 • 10:00–11:30
Discussant: Jon StoneFranklin & Marshall College
Chair: Marcos CisnerosPrinceton University
Tatyana GershkovichHarvard University
Tolstoy’s ‘Bad’ Art Theory
Philipp KohlHumboldt University of Berlin
‘Что такое хорошо и что такое плохо’: How Prigov Does Things with Values
Elizaveta BerezinaHigher School of Economics, Moscow
‘Formula painting’: Between Commerce and Artistic Inspiration
The Politics ofthe Abject10/17 • 11:35–13:15
Discussant: Ilya VinitskyUniversity of Pennsylvania
Chair: Victoria JuharyanPrinceton University
Emily WangPrinceton University
Ryleev’s Dumy and the Decembrist Conception of Russian History
Yana SkorobogatovUniversity of California, Berkeley
Revolution on Their Mind: Writing a Solidarity Letter under Brezhnev
Theodora Kelly TrimbleUniversity of Pittsburgh
Eurovision and Global Performance: How Russian Pop Music ‘сошла с ума’
HistoricalLandscapes10/17 • 14:30–16:30
Discussant: Nariman SkakovStanford University
Chair: Natalia KlimovaPrinceton University
Isabel LaneYale University
Remnants of the Cold War: Nuclear Anxiety and Its Byproducts
Svetlana SirotininaFreie Universität Berlin
Aleksei Ivanov and the Matrix of the Urals
Daniil LeidermanPrinceton University
Trash, Zombies, Violence and the Post-Soviet Landscape
Elizabeth Pearl MorganMcGill University, Montreal
Re-purposing Literary ‘Trash’: Recycled History and Pseudointellectual Narrative in Boris Akunin’s Erast Fandorin Detective Novels
The Discarded10/18 • 10:00–11:30
Discussant: Helena GosciloThe Ohio State University
Chair: Massimo BalloniPrinceton University
Roman WidderHumboldt University of Berlin
Poor People and Bad Writing: The Sentimentality of the Poor in Dostoevsky’s Бедные люди
Jennifer WilsonPrinceton University
The Importance of Being a Nihilist: Oscar Wilde’s Vera
Ksenia NourilRutgers University
Applying the Fantastic: Women and the Third Way in the Art of Polish Contemporary Artist Paulina Ołowska
Abfallhandel:Consumptionand Exchange 10/18 • 11:45–13:15
Discussant: Katherine Hill ReischlPrinceton University
Chair: Geoff Cebula Princeton University
Natalie RyabchikovaUniversity of Pittsburgh
The Soviet Cinephiles: ‘Bad Art’ and the Soviet Montage School
Rachel WetzlerThe Graduate Center, CUNY
Modernist Misappropriations: ‘The International Exhibition of Modern Art—Armory Show’ in Yugoslavia
Thomas SkowronekHumboldt University of Berlin
Being Bad the Right Way: Sasnal and Kossack on the Polish Art Market
Keynote Speaker | October 17th • 17:00• Catriona Kelly University of Oxford
Rubbish Art: Objects and Texts at the Borders of Culture *all panels held in East Pyne 010
The Vogue of Labor by Blue Noses
Graduate Conference in Slavic Languages and LiteraturesPrinceton University | October 17–18, 2014