KEYNOTEEWA DOMANSKA
(History & Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University & Stanford) Ewa Domanska is a professor of History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland and a regular visiting professor at Stanford in Anthropology and the Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. Her teaching and research interests include comparative theory of the human and social sciences, history and theory of historiography, posthumanities and ecological humanities. Her more recent publications include Existential History - Critical Approaches to Narrativism and Emancipatory Humanities (in Polish, 2012), History and the Contemporary Humanities: Studies in Theory of Historical Knowledge (in Ukrainian, 2012), Re-Figuring Hayden White (with Frank Ankersmit and Hans Kellner, Stanford UP, 2009), French Theory in Poland (with Miroslaw Loba, in Polish, 2010), and Theory of Knowledge of the Past and the Contemporary Human and Social Sciences (in Polish, 2010). She is also the author of numerous articles and essays published internationally in several different languages. STREAM LEADERSJANE COSTLOW (Environmental Humanities, Bates College)
Jane Costlow is Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College in Maine. She is the author, most recently of Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest (Cornell UP 2013), which won the 2014 USC Award for Best Book in Literary and Cultural Studies. She has co-edited a volume of essays on non-human animals in Russian culture and history (Pittsburgh University Press, 2010), and has written extensively on Russian women writers. Together with colleagues in Finland, she is completing two edited volumes on the cultural meanings of water, both in Russia and across cultures. SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (Slavic & Anthropology, Princeton) Serguei Oushakine is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. His research is concerned with transitional processes and situations: from the formation of newly independent national cultures after the collapse of the Soviet Union to post-traumatic identities and hybrid cultural forms. His first book The Patriotism of Despair: Loss, Nation, and War in Russia focused on communities of loss and exchanges of sacrifices in provincial post-communist Russia. His current project explores Eurasian postcoloniality as a means of affective reformatting of the past and as a form of retroactive victimhood. Oushakine’s Russian-language publications include edited volumes on trauma, family, gender and masculinity. OXANA TIMOFEEVA (Political Science & Philosophy, European University in St. Petersburg) Oxana Timofeeva is a senior lecturer on contemporary philosophy at the European University in St. Petersburg, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Science (Moscow), a member of the artistic collective "Chto Delat?", a deputy editor of the journal "Stasis," and the author of History of Animals: An Essay on Negativity, Immanence, and Freedom (Maastricht, 2009), and Introduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille (in Russian, Moscow, 2009). (Full bio here.) ARTISTSIRINA BOTEA BUCAN (visual artist and educator; http://www.irinabotea.com/)
Over the past twenty Irina Botea Bucan has been engaged in an art practice that uses multiple media to inspect socio-political dynamics and the possibility of transformation. Currently, her focus is on the de-centralization of cultural discourses and the possibility of sustaining creative differentiation that arguably exists outside of a dominant hegemonic system of values and critique. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Goldsmiths College London, and since 2006 she has been teaching at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Irina’s artistic methodology combines reenactment strategies, simulated auditions, elements of direct cinema and cinéma vérité. She develops her works through a process of collaboration in which the performers are active participants in the process, and as a filmmaker her role is in constant flux, shifting from an observational to a reflective, participatory and performative mode. Solo and group shows include: 55th Venice Biennale,International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Museum, New York, MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilia and Leon), Pompidou Centre, Paris, National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid; MUSAC-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, Gwangju Biennale 2010, U -Turn Quadriennial, Copenhagen; 51st Venice Biennale; Prague Bienale; Kunstforum, Vienna; Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels; MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art), Bucharest; Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowki Castle, Warsaw. Festivals: Artefact Festival, Leuven, Rotterdam Film Festival, Impakt Panorama, Utrecht; Polis Adriatic Europe Festival; Awards: 3Arts Visual Artis Award, Impakt Film Festival Silver Award, International Residence at Recollets, Cite des Arts, Paris, Constantin Brancusi, etc. JON DEAN Jon Dean has been working in the overlapping fields of community arts, education and applied social science for over twenty years in both England and Romania; initiating and developing diverse cultural projects through embedding differentiated and negotiated participatory strategies designed to place participants at the very core of artistic expression, learning and cultural policy. Recent exhibition venues include: Tranzit. ro (Bucharest), Arcub (Bucharest), Dudley Museum and Art Gallery, Stourbridge Art in the Void, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, OSA (Budapest) and Art Space (West Midlands), University of Johannesburg. PARTICIPANTSVLADIMIR ABASHEV (Perm State University)
Vladimir Abashev is a professor in the departments of Journalism and Russian Literature at Perm State University. His research and publications explore the poetics of Russian literature of the early 20th century and the history of literature of the Urals region of Russia. His best known book Perm kak tekst (Perm as text 2000) explores the historical development of the Ural city semiotics. MARINA ABASHEVA (Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University) Marina Abasheva is a Professor of Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Department of Contemporary Russian literature, and Perm State University, Department of Journalism. A Doctor of Philology, her academic interests include Contemporary Russian Literature, Contemporary Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, Gender Studies, Regional Studies, Sociology of Literature. Her books present research on some aspects of the literary process at the turn of the 21st century: Literatura v poiskah litsa. Russkaia proza v kontse ХХ veka: stanovlenie avtorskoi identichnosti (2001). Russkaia zhenskaia proza na rubezhe ХХ–ХХI vekov (2007), Russkaia proza v epokhu Internet: transformatsii v poetike i avtorskaia identichnost’ (2013). Her more recent research is concerned with Popular Culture, National Identity in Culture and Media Studies. TYLER ADKINS (Princeton) Tyler Adkins is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Princeton University. His ongoing ethnographic research focuses on the social life of matter and the material vicissitudes of sociality in rural areas of the Altai Republic of Siberia. More broadly, he is interested in the anthropology of post-socialism, philosophies of new materialism and new realism, as well as theories of thing and object in 20th-century avant-garde movements. CHRISTOPHER CAES (Columbia) Christopher Caes completed his Ph.D. in Slavic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University in Fall 2016 as the Lecturer in Polish. He comes to New York from Florida, where he co-directed the Polish Studies Program at the University of Florida for nine years. He also taught Slavic Studies previously at Florida State University. His area of research is 20th-century Polish literature, film, and culture, with a particular focus on artistic and cultural perspectives on human identity and behavior under extreme circumstances. His teaching interests include Polish and Russian Language, Slavic Studies, Film Studies, East European History, Science Fiction Studies, and Norse Mythology and Culture. He is also active as a literary translator from Polish to English. MIEKA ERLEY (Colgate) Mieka Erley is an assistant professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Colgate University. Her most recent publications are “‘The Dialectics of Nature in Kara-Kum’: Andrei Platonov’s Dzhan as the Environmental History of a Future Utopia” in Slavic Review and “A Critique of ‘Armchair’ Science: Nikolai Fedorov’s Cosmist Utopia as Malthusian Thought Experiment” in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Her current manuscript, Black Soil, Red Earth, explores the material and cultural histories of soil in Russia and its borderlands. ANNA FISHZON (Columbia) Anna Fishzon has a Ph.D. in History. She is the author of Fandom, Authenticity and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-siècle Russia (Palgrave, 2013). Anna is on the Editorial Board of The Candidate Journal and cohost of the podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis. ELENA FRATTO (Princeton) Elena Fratto is an assistant professor in the department of Slavic languages and literatures at Princeton. Her research and publications explore the intersection of theories of narrative and the history of science (especially late 19th-century and early 20th-century astronomy and medicine). She has also worked extensively on Boris Eikhenbaum. Her book manuscript, tentatively entitled Medical Story-Worlds, examines the narrative structure of medical knowledge in Russia, Italy, and France over the decades 1880-1930. JULIANE FÜRST (Bristol) Juliane Fürst is a Senior Lecturer of 20th Century History at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Postwar Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism (2010) and the editor of the recently published Dropping out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc (2017). She is currently involved in several projects relating to the Soviet Hippie community including a forthcoming exhibition at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles and a monograph titled Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland. ALEKSANDRA JACH Aleksandra Jach works as a curator at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Humanities at the University of Warsaw. Her recent exhibition projects include “Testing (re)production” (with Katarzyna Słoboda, Magdalena Ziółkowska, 2013); “Labour in a Single Shot: A Project by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki” (with Joanna Sokołowska, 2013); “If Only the Eyes Could Lie,” Krakow International Festival of Theatrical Reminiscences, 2013; “Avant-garde and Socrealism” (with Marta Olejniczak, Piotr Olkusz); “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else,” a Festival of Literary Translators in Gdańsk (2015); "Superorganism. The Avant-Garde and the Experience of Nature" (2017) (with Paulina Kurc-Maj). YULIA KARPOVA (Aarhus) Yulia Karpova is a historian of Soviet design and material culture. Currently she is a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, preparing a monograph on Soviet product design in the1960–1980s. COLLEEN MCQUILLEN (University of Illinois Chicago) Colleen McQuillen is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently co-editing with Julia Vaingurt a volume of scholarly essays entitled The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia, which is under contract with Academic Studies Press. She is also at work on a new book project that aims to re-read Russian Neo-Realist works through an ecocritical lens. DIANA MINCYTE (CUNY) Diana Mincyte is an assistant professor in the social science department at The City University of New York - New York City College of Technology. Her research examines social, environmental and material dimensions of agro-food economies in the Baltic States. Mincyte’s publications include articles in Slavic Review, Environment and Planning A and D, Agriculture and Human Values, Sociologia Ruralis, among others, book chapters, and several guest-edited special issues, including a co-edited issue with Ulrike Plath that was republished as a volume Food Culture and Politics in the Baltic States in 2017. LEONE MUSGRAVE (Indiana) Leone Musgrave will receive her Ph.D. in Russian and Middle Eastern History from Indiana University in May 2017. Her research in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Stavropol', and Vladikavkaz has been supported by Fulbright-Hays, Boren, and other fellowships. She has served as a history instructor at Indiana University, newsletter editor for the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, and editorial assistant for the American Historical Review. SAMUEL NOWAK (Jagiellonian University) Educated at the Jagiellonian University [MA] in cultural studies; Samuel Nowak holds a Ph.D. in media studies. His fellowships, research projects and study visits include: Universiteit Antwerpen, King's College London, New York University, Goldsmiths, University of London. He specializes in British cultural studies and media theory. His more recent research is concerned with posthumanism, i.e. ANT and speculative realism. CATHY POPKIN (Columbia) Cathy Popkin is the Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Russian at Columbia University. She is the author of The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol (1993) and a range of articles on the workings of nineteenth-century Russian prose. She is the editor and one of the translators of the new Norton Critical Edition of Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories (2014) and a co-editor of Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap (2014). Best known for her work on Chekhov's narrative and medical writings, she is completing a book on the disciplinary practices and documentary forms that inform Chekhov's fictional world and beginning a study of Ivan Turgenev and the logistics of likeness. IRINA SCHULZKI (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) Irina Schulzki is a Ph.D. candidate of the Graduate School for Language & Literature (LMU Munich). Her doctoral thesis, entitled “Kira Muratova: A Cinema of Gesture”, focuses on theories of gesture in film and philosophy. Her general research interests lie in the field of contemporary Russian literature, (post)postmodernist theories, philosophy and film. She co-edited Fictions / Realities. New Forms and Interactions (2011), and has published book chapters on film in the intersection with fan fiction, theories of the comical, phenomenology and media (Jean-Luc Marion, Boris Groys). Irina Schulzki is also an editor of the online academic journal on Central and East European film and media Apparatus. NARIMAN SKAKOV (Stanford) Nariman Skakov is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. His research interests lie primarily in 20th-century Russian/Soviet/Post-Soviet literature and culture. His first monograph, The Cinema of Tarkovsky: Labyrinths of Space and Time, was published by I. B. Tauris in 2012 while his articles have appeared in Slavic Review, Russian Review, Dostoevsky Studies, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and Новое литературное обозрение. He is currently working on a book dealing with late modernist experiments in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. ALEKSANDRA TATARSKY Alexandra Tatarsky is a writer and performer from NYC. She has lectured on Genrikh Sapgir’s multilingual psalms, theologies of translation in Brodsky, and the rapturous ruptures of spambot speech. Current research looks at the parallels between Lecoq mime pedagogy and Russian futurist zaum poetry as practices of resistance to authoritarian thinking. She teaches on holy fools and performance as political action at the School of Making and Thinking (NYC) and the School of Authentic Journalism (Mexico City). Her latest performance experiment, AMERICANA PSYCHOBABBLE, will be at JACK in Brooklyn Feb 24th & 25th. SERHII TERESHCHENKO (Columbia) Serhii Tereshchenko is a Ph.D. student in the Slavic department at Columbia. His main areas of interest are epistemology, cybernetics and scientific management. Serhii's current interest is in the methodologies of literary and visual studies that involve mapping and the calculation of big data. JULIA VAINGURT (University of Illinois Chicago) Julia Vaingurt is an associate professor of Russian Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published widely on Russian modernism and avant-garde, including Wonderlands of Russian Avant-Garde: Technology and Arts in Russia of the 1920s (Northwestern University Press, 2013). Together with Colleen McQuillen, she is coediting a volume of essays, entitled The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia, which is under contract with Academic Studies Press. LORRAINE WEEKES (Stanford) Lorraine Weekes is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Stanford University. Her research ethnographically investigates Estonian e-government and its effects on Estonian conceptions of citizenship, nationalism, and state sovereignty. ORGANIZERSIRINA DENISCHENKO (Slavic and Comparative Literature, Columbia)
Irina Denischenko is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her research interests include critical theory and philosophy of language, the avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe, and contemporary literature of the region. Irina is currently completing her dissertation "Mikhail Bakhtin and the 20th-century Poetics of Language in Central and Eastern Europe," which investigates the co-evolution of literary theory and artistic practices in the 1910s and the 1920s. BRADLEY GORSKI (Slavic, Columbia) Bradley Gorski's research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian literature and literary culture. His dissertation, "Authors of Success: Cultural Capitalism and Literary Evolution in Contemporary Russia," examines various technologies of literary prominence in post-Soviet Russia and their attendant effects on the development of contemporary literature. He is currently Digital Humanities Project Manager for the Black Sea Networks Initiative at Columbia University and Editor of Ulbandus 17, "A Culture of Institutions." ELIZA ROSE (Slavic and Comparative Literature, Columbia) Eliza Rose is a PhD student in Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her research explores Science Fiction, technophilia and technophobia, and representations of labor in Poland and Yugoslavia. Her dissertation follows the deterritorialization of aesthetics along forking paths in the 1970s. SPONSORSTHE HARRIMAN INSTITUTE
ULBANDUS: The Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Review of Columbia University THE DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES, Columbia University THE INSTITUTE FOR COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND SOCIETY |