Conference: Political Violence and Militant Aesthetics After Socialism (Yale University; April 17-19, 2015)

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Political Violence and Militant Aesthetics After Socialism

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, April 17, 2015

4.00-4.15 Introductory Remarks [Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium] Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University)

4.15-6.00 Panel I: History of Violence [Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium]

Ilya Budraitskis (GTsSI, Art Journal). “Does War Leave Space for Violence?”

Dragan Kujundzic (University of Florida)

Benjamin Noys (University of Chichester, UK)

Discussant: Marci Shore (Yale University)

6:00-8:00 Screening and Q&A [Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium]
Keti Chukhrov. “Love Machines” (2013)

8:00-9:00 Reception [Whitney Humanities Center]

Saturday, April 18, 2015

10:00-12:00 Panel II: Militancy and Heroism [Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium]

Pavel Arseniev (Translit, University of Lausanne, Switzerland). “Literature of a State of Emergency: Varlam Shalamov vs. ‘All Progressive Humanity’”

Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University)

Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

Kevin Platt (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Vladimir Alexandrov (Yale University)

12:00-2:00 Lunch and Beinecke Tour [Beinecke Archive]

2:00-4:00 Panel III: Post-Soviet, Post-Human [Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium]

Oxana Timofeeva (RAN, European University in St. Petersburg). “Prolegomena to any Future Theory of Community”

Keti Chukhrov (RGGU)

Alexei Penzin (RAN, University of Wolverhampton, UK). “Truth and Violence: Militant Subjectivity in Lenin’s Writings”

Discussant: Jonathan Platt (University of Pittsburgh)

4:00-6:00 Panel IV: Avant-Garde Now [Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium]

Kristin Romberg (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne). “Post-Soviet Project Work: Mid-Century Institution as Form”

Mark Lipovetsky (University of Colorado, Boulder). “Roman Osminkin’s Practice: Between Sergey Tretyakov and Dmitrii Prigov”

Aleksander Skidan (New Literary Observer, Chto Delat)

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Discussant: Molly Brunson (Yale University)

7:00 Conference dinner [location TBA]

Sunday, April 19, 2015

10:00-12:00 Panel V: Institution and Insurrection [Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium]

Artemy Magun (European University in St. Petersburg, Chto Delat?). “Art and negativity (and forget the violence)”

John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Marta Dziewanska

Discussant: Marta Figlerowicz (Yale University)

12:00-2:00 Lunch and ArtSpace Exhibit Tour [Artspace Gallery]

2:00-4:00 Yale Art Gallery Tour [Yale University Art Gallery]

4:00-8:00 Poetry Reading and Reception at ArtSpace [Artspace Gallery]

Pavel Arseniev

Keti Chukhrov

Aleksander Skidan

Russian-language poetry and English translations

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