XVII International Humanities Summer School
30 June – 4 July 2014
Visualizing Knowledge: Visual Literacy in Higher Education
Monday
10.00–10.30
10.30-11.20
11.40–13.00
14.00–15.20
15.40–17.00
18.30
30 June
Opening
James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), “Visual
Literacy: Its Role and Significance in Higher Education”
James Elkins, “What are ‘Visual Studies’?”
Roundtable
“The current state of visual studies in the world and in Russia.
Visual literacy: Experience in the field and possibilities for
international academic exchange.”
Participants: James Elkins, Andrei Gornykh (European
Humanities University), Susan Jaret McKinstry (Carleton
College), Ilya Inishev (Higher School of Economics),
Vladimir Kolotaev (Russian State University for the
Humanities), Aleksandr Markov (Russian State University for
the Humanities)
Participant Introductions
Evening Event:
Visualizing Verbal Art: Screening ILFIPETROV followed by
discussion with director R. Liberov.
CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY FILM, ZUBOVSKY BLVD, 2
Tuesday
10.00–11.20
11.40–13.00
14.00–15.20
15.40–17.00
18.30
1 July
Andrei Gornykh (European Humanities University), “The
Presentation of Knowledge in the Humanities on Documentary
and Educational Television.”
Andrei Gornykh, “The Visualization of European Identity (We
Europeans, 2009, History Channel).”
Susan Jaret McKinstry (Carleton College),” “Visualizing the
Humanities"”
Dmitry Karpov (British Higher School of Art and Design),
“Communications Design for Classroom Applications: Musts,
Cans, and Definite Don’t’s”
Evening Event:
Visit to the “Garage” Museum-Learning Center, discussion
with current exhibit curator, and public lecture by
James Elkins, “Can Pictures Think?” Public Lecture and
discussion.
“GARAGE” MUSEUM: GORKY PARK, KRYMSKY VAL 9/45
Wednesday
10.00–11.20
11.40–13.00
2 July
Susan Jaret McKinstry, “Visual Studies in Research and
Teaching: My Own Story”
Susan Jaret McKinstry, “Visual Learning in the Humanities
14.00–15.20
15.40–17.00
17.30-18.30
19.30
Classroom -1: Creating Lessons”
Almira Usmanova (European Humanities University), “On
Constructing Research Subjects in the Field of Visual
Culture.”
Almira Usmanova (European Humanities University), “The
Many Screens of Soviet Contemporaneity: On the Threshold
of a Digital World.”
Evening Events:
“Metamorphoses of Socialization: the Literary and the
Visual.” A Discussion with Boris Dubin.
“People Born in the 1970s: A New “International” or PostGlobalization.” A Dialobue between Kate Fowle and Boris
Groys”
“GARAGE” MUSEUM: GORKY PARK, KRYMSKY VAL 9/45
Thursday
10.00–11.20
11.40–13.00
14.00–15.20
16.10–17.30
17.30–18.30
3 July
Susan Jaret McKinstry, “Visual Learning in the Classroom -2:
Evaluating Visual Knowledge”
Diane Nemec Ignashev (Carleton College/Moscow State
University) “Inquiry through Images: an Exercise in
Interpretation.”
Roundtable
“Visual Images in Museum Practice: The Museum as
Learning Space.”
Participants: Dmitry Bak & Ksenia Belkevich (State Literary
Museum), Ekaterina Sazonova (Polytechnical Museum) et
alia.
Roundtable
“Visual Pedagogical Practices in the Context of Literary
Education.”
Participants: Dmitry Bak, Andrei Gornykh, Irina Dobrishina,
Susan McKinstry, Almira Usmanova.
(Conducted in collaboration with the All-Russian Summer
School for Teachers of Russian Language and Literature)
Concluding Discussion
Closing