Friday 11 December 2009

09:15 - 09:45 Registration

09:45 - 09:55 Introductory Remarks

10:00 - 11:00 Material Culture and Fashion

(Chair: Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds)

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

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

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 13:00 Politics and Counterdiscourses

(Chair: Vanessa rampton, University of Cambridge)

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

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

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

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch/Break

14:00 - 15:30 Subcultures: Diaspora, Queerness, Ethnicity, Youth Cultures

(Chair: Eleanor Peers, University of Cambridge)

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

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

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

15:30 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 17:15 Keynote Speech

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

17:15 - 18:00 Wine Reception

19:30 Dinner @ Trinity College (Allhusen Room), Cambridge

Saturday  12 December 2009

09:00 - 10:00 Post-Soviet Cinema

(Chair: Emma Widdis, University of Cambridge)

Susan Larsen, University of Cambridge - Eccentric Retrospection and Imaginary Margins: Recent Russian Cinema In Search of a Usable Past 

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

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Digital Discourses: New Media

(Chair: Ellen Rutten, University of Bergen)

Olga Goriunova, London Metropolitan University - Idiocy and New Media

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

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

12:00 - 12:15 Intermission

12:15 - 13:30 Working Lunch / Round Table Discussion

(Chair: Alexander Etkind)