Princeton University
Dumpster Diving and Sustainability:
Managing the Limited Resources of Culture
October 17-18, 2014
Schedule of Events
All panels in 010 East Pyne.
Papers available at
http://dumpsterdivingandsustainability.wordpress.com/for-conference-participants/, password: 010eastpyne .
Friday, October 17
9:50-10:00 Opening Remarks
10:00-11:30 Panel 1:
Bad Conventions
Discussant: Jon Stone (Franklin & Marshall College)
Chair: Marcos Cisneros (Princeton University)
Tatyana Gershkovich (Harvard University)
Tolstoy's "Bad" Art Theory
Philipp Kohl (Humboldt University of Berlin)
"Chto takoe khorosho i chto takoe plokho": How Prigov Does Things with Values
Elizaveta Berezina (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
"Formula painting": Between Commerce and Artistic Inspiration
11:45-1:15 Panel 2:
The Politics of the Abject
Discussant: Ilya Vinitsky (University of Pennsylvania)
Chair: Victoria Juharyan (Princeton University)
Emily Wang (Princeton University)
Ryleev's Dumy and the Decembrist Conception of Russian History
Yana Skorobogatov (University of California, Berkeley)
Revolution on Their Mind: Writing a Solidarity Letter under Brezhnev
Theodora Kelly Trimble (University of Pittsburgh)
Eurovision and Global Performance: How Russian Pop Music "Soshla s uma"
2:30- 4:30 Panel 3:
Historical Landscapes
Discussant: Nariman Skakov (Stanford University)
Chair: Natalia Klimova (Princeton University)
Isabel Lane (Yale University):
Remnants of the Cold War: Nuclear Anxiety and Its Byproducts
Svetlana Sirotinina (Freie Universität Berlin)
Aleksei Ivanov and the Matrix of the Urals
Daniil Leiderman (Princeton University)
Trash, Zombies, Violence and the Post-Soviet Landscape
Elizabeth Pearl Morgan (McGill University, Montreal)
Re-purposing Literary 'Trash': Recycled History and Pseudointellectual Narrative in Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin Detective Novels
5:00-6:30 Keynote: Catriona Kelly (University of Oxford)
Rubbish Art: Objects and Texts at the Borders of Culture
Saturday October 18
10:00-11:30 Panel 4:
The Discarded
Discussant: Helena Goscilo (The Ohio State University)
Chair: Massimo Balloni (Princeton University)
Roman Widder (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Poor People and Bad Writing: The Sentimentality of the Poor in Dostoevsky's Bednye liudi
Jennifer Wilson (Princeton University)
The Importance of Being a Nihilist: Oscar Wilde's Vera
Ksenia Nouril (Rutgers University)
Applying the Fantastic: Women and the Third Way in the Art of Polish Contemporary Artist Paulina Ołowska
11:45-1:15 Panel 5:
Abfallhandel: Consumption and Exchange
Discussant: Katherine Hill Reischl (Princeton University)
Chair: Geoff Cebula (Princeton University)
Natalie Ryabchikova (University of Pittsburgh)
The Soviet Cinephiles: 'Bad Art' and the Soviet Montage School
Rachel Wetzler (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Modernist Misappropriations: "The International Exhibition of Modern Art—Armory Show" in Yugoslavia
Thomas Skowronek (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Being Bad the Right Way: Sasnal and Kossack on the Polish Art Market
2:15-3:45 Exhibition and Lecture:
Blue Noses (219 Aaron Burr Hall)
(Translations by Alisa Ballard, Natalia Klimova)
3:45-4:30 Reception (Atrium, Aaron Burr Hall)
More information here: http://dumpsterdivingandsustainability.wordpress.com/schedule-of-events/
Sponsored by: The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Graduate School; Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Council of the Humanities; Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies; Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities; English Department; Department of French and Italian; and Program in European Cultural Studies
