Department of Slavonic Studies

Research Events

Conferences

 

 

Symposiums

Memory and Post-War Russian Cinema: Film Critics on the Front Lines (A symposium in honour of Maia Turovskaya)

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College

Wednesday and Thursday, 4th and 5th November , 2010.

Various Speakers

The distinguished Russian film critic Maia Turovskaia will be in Sheffield and Cambridge, 30 October-5 November. On this occasion film scholars from across the UK will gather in Cambridge on 4-5 November to celebrate the ongoing influence of Turovskaia's work and the filmmakers most central to her critical practice, at a symposium organised in her honour: Memory and Post-War Russian Cinema: Film Critics on the Front Lines.

Fade from Red: Screening in the Cold-War Ex-Enemy 1990-2005.

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College

Thursday, 18 November 2010, 5:00pm

Professor Helena Goscillo

What is the post-Soviet status of the Cold War on screen? Providing a historical context for the recent portrayals of the allegedly ‘former’ enemy in American and Russian cinema, Goscilo contends that mainstream films of the glasnost’ and post-Soviet era by both countries adopted a variety of stratagems that revised and revived Cold War habits instead of eliminating them. A larger question looming in the wings of her analysis is the resented dominance of Hollywood in world cinema.

Russian Postmodernism Reconsidered: A Conversation

Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College

Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 4:45-7:00 pm

Dr Margarita Tupitsyn: Russian Postmodernism: Not Quite Twenty Years After

Prof Mikhail Epstein: The Unique and Universal in Russian Postmodernism

Dr Viktor Tupitsyn: The Dark Museum

What does it mean to speak of Russian literary and visual culture as 'postmodern'? To what extent are Western models and theories of postmodernity applicable to the Russian art and literature of the late Soviet and post-Soviet period? How have Russian artists and theorists of the last half century conceptualized their work in relation to the Russian modernisms of the late imperial and early Soviet period?

These questions – among many others– have been eloquently and provocatively addressed in the scholarly and curatorial work of the three speakers who will meet on Wednesday, 9 Marh 2011, in a mini-symposium on recent Russian art and theories of postmodernity. Each of the three speakers – Mikhail Epstein, Margarita Tupitsyn, and Victor Tupitsyn – has played a pivotal role in introducing late 20th-century Russian art and theoretical practices to Western audiences in a series of influential books, essays, and exhbitions over the past 30 years. Active both inside and outside Russian art and literary circles, Epstein and the Tupitsyns have theorized, chronicled and curated the ongoing conversation among Russian artists about the nature and significance of art and literary practice over the last 30 years. They are not simply engaged spectators to these debates; they are active participants in them.

Workshops

Workshop Cambridge-NLO Research Workshop on 'Cultural Memory'. Wednesday 18 April 2007, Keynes Hall, King's College

Workshop Cultural Memory in Eastern Europe. Research methods in the East-European Memory Studies. 18-19 December 2008, King's College, Rylands Room
Cambridge cultural memory working group