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Northeast Corridor Russian History and Culture Workshop

Saturday, April 30, 2022, 10:00am - 03:00pm

 

2022 Northeast Corridor Russian History and Culture Workshop

Rutgers University, April 29-30, 2022

Rutgers Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place. West Wing, Room 6051

Friday, April 29

2:45 PM:  Welcome and introductions

3:00 PM: Anna Nath (Rutgers University), “Vienna 1815: All Is at Play in War and Peace, and Congress”

Commentator: Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton University)

4:00 PM: Matthew Honegger (Princeton University), “Welcome to the War of Tomorrow: Soviet Musicians at the 1939 World’s Fair”

Commentator: Pavel Khazanov (Rutgers University)

5:15 PM: Jennifer Goetz (Columbia University), “‘Seeing Soviet’: Private Photography and its Relationship to Public Socialist Realism”

Commentator: Emily Van Buskirk (Rutgers University)

6:15 PM:  Sohee Ryuk (Columbia University), “Making Carpets Industrial: Carpets in Trade, Production, and Agriculture 1921-1941”

Commentator: Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)

7:30 PM: Dinner

 

Saturday, April 30

 10 AM: Thomas C. Stevens (University of Pennsylvania), “Bandits into Citizens? Rehabilitation and Retribution in 1920s Soviet Tambov”

Commentator: Jochen Hellbeck (Rutgers University) 

11:15 AM: Paul Mercandetti (Rutgers University), “Voices from the Burned Villages: The Khatyn Memorial, Documentary Prose of Ales’ Adamovich, and Negotiating the Memory of WWII in Soviet Byelorussia”

Commentator: Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University) 

12:15 PM: Olga Nechaeva (University of Pennsylvania), “Intergenerational Exchange and Literary Autonomy at the Gorky Literary Institute During the Thaw”

Commentator: Chloe Kitzinger (Rutgers University)

1:15 PM: Catered lunch on the premises. 

2 PM: Shared Reflections: The Impact of Russia’s War in Ukraine on Us as Researchers, Scholars, and Teachers

Please note: the workshop format is pre-read discussion.  All papers are accessible using the following link (please copy and paste it into your browser): https://rutgers.box.com/s/5xhlo0kklejn0dznp8d3zkhs30wflrna 

Contact:

Jochen Hellbeck, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Anna Nath, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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