PAST THE ‘POST-’: THEORIZING THE POST-POST-SOVIET VIA (NEW) MEDIA AND
POPULAR CULTURE
Preliminary Program
DAY 1: 11 JUNE 2015
9:15 – 9:30
C2.23
9:30 – 11:00
C1.23/C3.23
OPENING REMARKS
Stephen Amico/Sudha Rajagopalan
University of Amsterdam
Panel 1 (C1.23)
HYBRID IDENTIES AND POPULAR CULTURE
Chair: Irina Marchesini
Panel 1A (C3.23)
LITERARY INTERVENTIONS
Chair: Irina Souch
Gabriella Elina Imposti
Bologna University
Dissident “Street Art” Resisting Neo-Soviet
Discourse: the Voina and Pussy Riot Groups
Ivana Peruško
Zagreb University
Russia’s New Cultural Context by Vladimir Sorokin and
Alexander Zeldovich
Irina Marchesini
Bologna University
Speaking Alien Tongues? On Social Media and
the Russian Contemporary Novel
Ksenia Oteva
St. Petersburg State Theater Arts Academy
The Image of Modern Society Shown through the
Adaptation of a Classic Masterpiece: Dostoevskii’s Idiot in
Cinema and Theatre
Marco Puleri
Bologna University
Hybridity Reconsidered: Envisioning RussianLanguage Literature in Ukraine after Euromaidan
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:45
C1.23/C3.23
Break
Panel 2 (C1.23)
CONFLICT AND RESISTANCE
Chair: TBA
Maria Sidorkina
Yale University
Trolling the Russian State: The Digital
Mobilization of Official Documents and Their
Activist Counter-Publics
Frank Weij
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Appealing Protest: An Analysis of YouTube User
Comments to Pussy Riot’s Recorded Punk
Performances
12:45 – 13:45
13:45 – 15:15
C1.23/C3.23
15:15 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:30
A0.08
16:30 – 17:00
> 18:30
Claudia Landolfi
Jan van Eyck Academy
The Psychodrama of Post-Soviet Identity: the Metaphors of
Loss and Underground in Poetry, Cinema, and Philosophy
Panel 2A (C3.23)
RUSSIA, UKRAINE, MEDIATION
Chair: Natasha Kurchanova
Inna Biei
French Press Institute, Panthéon-Assas University
Russian Nostalgia: New Cold War, Slovophilism, and
Putin’s Pop-Culture
Tymofii Brik
Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
Political Mobilization and the Obstacles for the Emergence
of Social Capital on Facebook: Some Evidence from
Ukrainian Euromaidan Revolution
Angelina Lucento
Central European University, Institute for Advanced Study
New Media and the Culture of Endless War: Contemporary
Visual Culture in Ukraine as Case Study
Natalia Avdonina
Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk
'Hidden War' and Unsung Heroes: Russian
Leaders and Media's Rhetoric about Veterans of
the War in Afghanistan, 1979-1989
Lunch
Panel 3 (C1.23)
ART AND IMAGE, SPACE AND POLITICS
Chair: Diana Ibañez-Tirado
Panel 3A (C3.23)
CINEMA, PAST AND PRESENT
Chair: Dario Martinelli
Natasha Kurchanova
President, SHERA/Independent Scholar
Cyberfest: A Tale of Displacement of
Alienation?
Oleg Podvintsev
Perm State University
Nostalgia for the Soviet Period as a Resource for “Patriotic”
Propaganda by Means of Cinema in Contemporary Russia
Jamie Rann
Queen Mary University
Rubble Trouble: “Ruin Porn” Photography and
the Permanent Collapse of the Soviet Union
Irina Souch
University of Amsterdam
Two Towers of Happiness: Representation of Russian
Identity and Community in Popular Film of the 2010s
Maria Brock
Birkbeck College, University of London/London
School of Economics
Adventures in Hyperreal Russia
Mariëlle Wijermars
University of Groningen
Past the “Post-,” but Old Habits Die Hard: The Persistence
of the State vs. Cultural Elite Paradigm and the Reception of
State Critical Cinema in Contemporary Russia
Break
KEYNOTE
Yngvar Steinholt
University of Tromsø
Russia after the Crimean Annex: Silence and Absence as Theoretical Challenges
Coffee
Dinner
DAY 2: 12 JUNE 2015
9:00 – 10:30
C2.23/C3.17
Panel 1 (C2.23)
THE GENDERED MOTHERLAND
Chair: Natasha Kurchanova
Panel 1A (C3.17)
INTERNET, IDENTITY, AND HISTORY
Chair: James Rann
Diana Ibañez-Tirado
SOAS, University of London/School of Global
Studies, University of Sussex
Mexican Soap Operas and Marital Disputes in
Southern Tajikistan: Emotions, Gendered
Subjects and Personhood
Stepanov, Boris
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Work of Nostalgia: Soviet Film Heritage and New Cinematic
Experience
Åsne Øysteinsdotter Høgetveit
University of Tromsø
Women’s Status in the Russian Societal Space:
A Vertical Approach
10:30 – 10:45
10:45 – 12:45
C2.23/C3.17
Olga Ryabets
University of Amsterdam
Let’s Get Married in Russia!
Break
Panel 2 (C2.23)
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND MEDIA
Chair: Jukka Pietiläinen
Natalia Samutina
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Multifandom Battles in Ruissian-Speaking Online
Communities: The Development of Popular Culture in
(Hidden) Virtual Spaces
Panel 2A (C3.17)
PERFORMANCE, PARODY, AND POLITICS
Chair: Philip Ewell
Marianne Leppik
University of Tartu
Historical Us/Them Dispositions in the Reception
of News among Estonian Russian-Speakers
Philip Ewell
Hunter College, City University of New York
Dissent in Post-‘Post-Soviet’ Russia as Expressed in Vasya
Oblomov’s Parodic Narratives
Aigerim Alzhanova
al-Fabri Kazakh National University
Is Kazakhstan’s Mass-Media Competitive?
Larisa Kurtovic
Cornell University
Liberty Leading the People: Parody and the Promise of
Democratic Tradition in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Polina Kliuchnikova
Durham University
Switching to the Post-Post-Soviet? Language
Practices, Cultural Identities and New
Communication Spaces of Russian-Speaking
Migrants in the UK
12:45 – 13:45
13:45 – 14:30
F0.02
Valeriya Kalkina
University of Canterbury
The Future of Post-Soviet Memory: Online Visual Archives
of the Soviet Past
Trudie Stoppelenburg
University of Amsterdam
The Online Playground: The Linguistic
Experiments of Padonki as a Tool for Virtual
Identities
Lunch
PRESENTATION/BOOK LAUNCH
Dario Martinelli
Kaunas University of Technology
The Lithuanian Singing Revolution in the Post-Post-Soviet
Scenario
Perry Sherouse
Oberlin College
Muscle and Media: Frames of Reference in Georgian
Weightlifting
Jukka Pietiläinen
University of Helsinki/Aleksanteri Institute
Media Revolution in Russia? Glossy Magazines and Social Change in Putin’s Russia
Creating a New Russia: Magazines and Social Change in Russia will be published by Kikimora Press in Summer
2015
14:30 – 14:45
14:45 – 16:00
F0.02
16:00 – 16:05
16:05 – 16:30
F0.02
Break
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Introduction: Sudha Rajagopalan
Moderator: Ellen Rutten
University of Amsterdam
Break
CLOSING REMARKS/FAREWELL
Stephen Amico
University of Amsterdam