Home

List of abstracts

Registration

Oxford Info

Programme

All sessions will be held at the Dahrendorf Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College, Oxford

FRIDAY JUNE 6th

12:00-12:40 Registration
In the Buttery, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's College

12:40-13:30 Lunch at St Antony’s College

13:40-13:45 Introductory remarks

13:50-15:10 Building the Nation I: Institutions and Ideology
(Chair Prof. Robert Service)

Rebecca Bouveng (Durham) ‘Reassessing the Idea of Russian Messianism in Contemporary Russian Politics’

Katja Ruutu (Oxford) ‘The Role of the Language in Ideological Discourses – their Conversation with Stalin’

Robert Harris (Oxford) ‘Alexander Herzen: The Construction of a Liberal Socialist Identity in 19^th Century Russia’

15:10-15:30 Break

15:30-16:50 Building the Nation II: Cultural Memory
(Chair Prof. Catriona Kelly)

Jonathan Brunstedt (Oxford) ‘Monumentalizing Moscow: War Memorial Politics in the Soviet Capital’

Victoria Donovan (Oxford) ‘Tourist guides and Cultural Heritage in Provincial Russian towns: Writing Local Identities’

Mark Sutcliffe (SSEES) ‘Retrospectivism and the National Idea: the Architecture of St Petersburg’

16:50-17:10 Break

17:10-18:30 Imagining the Nation
(Chair Dr. Katya Andreyev)

Dominic Martin (Cambridge) ‘The Imaginary of Penza’

Ian Appleby (Manchester) ‘The Ultimate Cossack Sacrifice? Laying Down One’s Identity for the Fatherland’

Anton Shekhovtsov (Sevastopol National Technical University) ‘Aleksandr Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism: The New Right à la Russe’

18:40-19:30 Dinner

19:45-21:15 Prof. Yitzhak Brudny (Pennsylvania) Keynote Lecture: "The Revolt against Liberalism and Democracy: 'Russian Nationalist Political Thought in the Post-Soviet Age'"

21:15-22:30 Reception

We would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support:

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)

European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford (EHRC)

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford

New College, Oxford

Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (RESC)

St Antony's College, Oxford

SATURDAY JUNE 7th

9:00-9:30 Coffee

9:40-11:00 Remembering the Nation

(Chair Dr. Philip Bullock)

Josie Von Zitzewitz (Oxford) ‘1970s Leningrad Poetry and the Silver Age’

Anya Melyantsev (Oxford) ‘VSKhSON, the All-Russian Social Christian Union for the Liberation of the People: Sketch of an Anomaly or Portrait of the Emerging Dissident Right’

Amy Bryzgel (Rutgers) ‘Afrika’s Crimania: Language, Collecting, and Identity’

11:00 – 11:20 Break

11:20 – 12:40 Writing the Nation: Home
(Chair Prof. Andrei Zorin)

Friederike Carl (Freiburg i. Br.) ‘Discourses of Nation and Gender in Gogol’s St. Petersburg Stories’

Joanne Shelton (Bath) ‘Defending Russia against Invasion from the West: The use of Detective Fiction to reaffirm Russian National Identity in the Post-Soviet Era’

Andrew Foxall (Oxford) ‘Geopolitics: Writing/ Righting the Russian Nation’

12:40 - 13:30 Lunch

13:40 - 15:20 Writing the Nation: Abroad
(Chair Dr. Andrew Kahn)

Lars Kristensen (St Andrews) ‘Songs of Russians Abroad: ‘Stand by Your Man’ or ‘On the Hills of Manchuria’

Kyrill Kunakhovich (Princeton) ‘The Pushkin Centennials of 1937: Russians Abroad, the Soviet Union, & the Politics of Russian National Identity’

Muireann Maguire (Cambridge) ‘The Supernatural & the Representation of Russian Reality in the Works of Russian Émigré Authors’

Darya Protopopova (Oxford) ‘The Idea of Russian National Character in Publications on Russia in early 20^th-century Britain’

16:00-16:10 Presentation of Pushkin House Director
Julian Gallant at New College

16:10 - 17:00 Drinks reception in Founder’s Library, New College

17:00-17:30 Tour of New College Grounds

17:40-18:30 Dinner, New College

CONVENORS

Victoria Donovan, St Antony’s College
Robert Harris, New College