Abstracts

Russia on Edge: Reclaiming the Periphery in Contemporary Russian Culture

Interdisciplinary Workshop, 11-12 December 2009 (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)

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Djurdja Bartlett, London College of Fashion - Moscow on the Fashion Map: Between World Periphery and Russian Centre

Sander Brouwer, University of Groningen - Centre and Borders in Dugin & Prokhanov

Aline Ehrenfried, University of Aberdeen - Native Ethnic Identity in Siberia: From a Bird's Eye View

Olga Goriunova, London Metropolitan University - Idiocy and New Media

Dan Healey, University of Swansea - Perverse Peripheries and Normal Centres: Situating the Queer in Gulag Memory

Jeremy Hicks, Queen Mary, University of London - Centre and Periphery in the Documentary Films of Sergei Loznitsa

Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University - The Will to Connect: Plots and Fragments of Postsocialist Capitalism in Provincial Russia

Hilary Pilkington, University of Warwick - 'Skinhead Is a Movement of Action': the Ideological, the Political and the Personal in Extreme Youth (Sub)Cultural Strategies

Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, University of Edinburgh - Playing with Meaning on the Periphery of Russian Counter-Discourse

Henrike Schmidt, FU Berlin / Peter Szondi Institute - Voices from the Margins: Russian Bloggers from the Countryside

Claire Shaw, University College London / SSEES - Fashion with Edge: Siberian Designers in Moscow

Ivor Stodolsky, Aleksanteri Institute Helsinki - Living on the Archival Edge: The Closure of the Petersburg Archive and Library of Independent Art and the Afterlife of Nonconformist Art

Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds - Play, Modality and Claims of Nationhood: Russian Online Gaming