CONFERENCE PROGRAMThursday, February 23:
(THE THURSDAY EVENING EVENT IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) Participants arrive in New York City 3:00 PM – Check-in to Hotel Belleclaire (250 West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024; (212) 362-7700) http://www.hotelbelleclaire.com/ 7:00 – “Rock. Paper. Skin.” Presentation and Film Screening by Irina Botea Bucan and Jon Dean (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) followed by reception Harriman Atrium, 12th Floor, International Affairs Building, Columbia University (ALL FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
Friday, February 24: 420 116th St, 1st Floor, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University 9:00 AM – Things 1: The Vibrancy of Soviet Matter Stream leader: Serguei Oushakine NARIMAN SKAKOV – The Soviet Empire of Things: “Post-Formalist” Viktor Shklovsky on Matter and Commodities TYLER ADKINS – “You Can’t Eat a Toyota”: Encounters with the (Post-)Soviet Thing-System JULIANE FURST – Soviet Hippie Materiality, or Why Hippie Things and Late Socialism Were Made for Each Other YULIA KARPOVA – Portraits of Things and Bioplasticity: Materialities of 1970s Soviet Decorative Art 11:15 AM – Environment 1: Critical Ecologies Stream leader: Jane Costlow CATHY POPKIN – Trees and the Like COLLEEN MCQUILLEN – The Political Ecology of Coal Mining: from Historical to Vital Materialism in Aleksandr Kuprin’s Donbass Stories LEONE MUSGRAVE – The Non-Human, the Anthropogenic, and the Autogenic in a Moment of Human Crisis: The North Caucasus Environment in Revolution and Civil War 1:30 PM – Lunch 2:45 PM – Bodies 1: (Bodily) Limits Stream leader: Oxana Timofeeva JULIA VAINGURT – Unwholesome copies in Karel Capek’s RUR and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go ELENA FRATTO – Narrative Agency and the Pituitary Gland: Metabolic Storytelling in Mikhail Bulgakov’s “Heart of a Dog” CHRISTOPHER CAES – Dying to See: Historical Trauma and the Posthuman in Zdzisław Beksiński ANNA FISHZON – Animation and the Posthuman: Trauma, Queer Failure, and Creative Anthropomorphism in the Stagnation Era 5:00–6:30 PM – Keynote: Ewa Domanska – Ecological Humanities
reception to follow Saturday, February 25: 420 116th St, 1st Floor, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University 9:00 AM – Things 2: Affect and Things Stream leader: Serguei Oushakine MARINA AND VLADIMIR ABASHEV – “A piercing pity for the tin box in a waste patch…”: The Appeal of Things and the Human Response in Russian Culture IRINA SCHULZKI – The Gesture of Things in the Films of Kira Muratova SAMUEL NOWAK – Maria Janion and Object-Oriented Philosophy 11:00 AM – Environment 2: New Vitalisms Stream leader: Jane Costlow MIEKA ERLEY – A Theory for the Post-Anthropocene? Soviet Vitalism and the New Materialism ALEKSANDRA JACH – Naturecultures and the Avant-garde ALEKSANDRA TATARSKY – Macaroni Cosmos and Pickle Politics 1:00 PM – Lunch 2:15 PM – Bodies 2: Extra-Human Socialities Stream leader: Oxana Timofeeva LORRAINE WEEKES – Cyborg Body Politic: Estonian Data Embassies and the Immortal Nation DIANA MINCYTE – Cows in Transition: Nature, State, and Animal Subjectivity in the 20th-Century Baltics SERHII TERESHCHENKO – Cities against Humans: Life in the Abandoned Cities of Chornobyl’s Zone 4:30 PM – Round-table Wrap-up with Stream Leaders and Keynote EWA DOMANSKA JANE COSTLOW SERGUEI OUSHAKINE OXANA TIMOFEEVA Moderator: Eliza Rose Download the conference reader here.
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