Clemson Conference on Russian Culture During the First World
War and Revolution, 1914-1922
Clemson University Conference Center
Clemson, SC
Sponsors:
 Clemson University Department of History
 Clemson University College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities
 Gerald Sonnenfeld, Clemson University Vice-President for
Research
 David Mcdonald, Mortenson-Petrovich Professor of History,
University of Wisconsin
 “Russia’s Great War and Revolution” Project:
http://web.ku.edu/~russiasgreatwar/cgi-bin/index.php
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13
Arrival of participants, Greenville-Spartanburg airport, South Carolina
(GSP); conference will provide transportation to Clemson University
Martin Inn
Wine and cheese reception, hosted by Melissa Stockdale (details TBA)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14
9:00-9:30: Welcome--Prof. Steve Marks
9:30-11:30: Patriotism and Rumor
Moderator: Murray Frame
 Melissa Stockdale (University of Oklahoma), “Patriotic Culture in
War and Revolution, 1914-1922”
 Colleen Moore (Indiana University), "Peasant Patriotism in
Wartime Russia"
 Corinne Gaudin (University of Ottawa), “Circulation and
Production of News and Rumor in Rural Russia during World War I”
 Boris Kolonitskii (European University of St Petersburg and
Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences), "Political
Leaders during the First World War and Revolution in Representations
and Rumors"
2
11:30-12:30: Discussion
12:30-2:00: Lunch
2:00-4:00: Cultural Institutions
Moderator: Steve Marks
 Aaron Cohen (California State University, Sacramento), “Love in
the Time of Cholera. The Russian Art World and the War Experience,
1914-1917”
 Catherine Evtuhov (Georgetown University), "The Orthodox
Church in War and Revolution"
 Murray Frame (University of Dundee), "Theater and Theatrical
Discourse in Russia, 1914-22"
 Christopher Stolarski (Johns Hopkins University), "Picturing War,
Representing Nation: Russian Photojournalism during the First World
War”
4:00-5:00: Discussion
[5:00-6:00: Campus tour, incl. tour of John C. Calhoun plantation
house]
7:00-10:00: Dinner at the Marks’, Clemson
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
9:30-12:00: Cultural Interpretations of War and Revolution
Moderator: Melissa Stockdale
 Alex Ogden (University of South Carolina), "Poetry, 1914-1922"
 Christopher Stroop (Stanford University), "Russian Philosophy in
War and Revolution"
 Denise Youngblood (University of Vermont), "Silent Witness:
Russian Cinema in War and Revolution, 1914-1922"
12:00-1:00: Discussion
1:00-2:00: Lunch
3
2:00-4:00: Cultural Manifestations
Moderator: Boris Kolonitskii
 Martin Miller (Duke University), "Diagnostics of Violence: Russian
Psychiatric Responses to the Great War"
 Lynn Sargeant (California State University, Fullerton), “’We Need
People’s Houses. We Need Thousands of People’s Houses’: The Great
War, the Revolution, and the War on Backwardness”
 Steve Marks (Clemson University) "The Russian Experience of
Money, 1914-1924"
 Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky), "Memory of the Russian
Revolution and Civil War"
4:00-5:00: Discussion
7:00-10:00: Dinner in Greenville
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16
Departure; conference will provide transportation to GSP airport