Preliminary Program: Up from the Ashes
Details
Friday, February 27
9:00 am
Reitz Union, Room 349
Symposium Resources
9:00
Opening remarks
9:15 – 9:45
Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburgh)
“‘Nationalist’? ‘Imperial’? Calling Russia Names”
9:45 – 10:15
Paul D’Anieri (University of Florida)
From Superpower to Great Power: The Evolution of Russia’s Foreign
Policy Objectives
10:15 – 10:45
Michael Gorham (University of Florida),
“Mediating the Russian Nation: A Discourse Analysis of Vladimir Putin’s Annual ‘Conversation with the Russian People’”
10:45 – 11:15
Break
11:15 – 11:45
Galina Rylkova (University of Florida) “The ‘Name Russia’ project as an exercise in contemporary myth- and history-making”
11:45 – 12:15
Stuart Finkel (University of Florida)
“Problematic Pages: Pain and Glory in Russian Historical Memory”
12:15 – 12:45
Kevin M. F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania)
“History, Discipline and the Tyrant: Ivan IV, Peter I and Stalin in Post-Soviet Russia”
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 2:30
Eliot Borenstein (New York University)
“Ten Years That Shook the World: Demonizing the Grim Nineties”
2:30 – 3:00
Dragan Kujundzic (University of Florida)
“The vEmpire Strikes Back: Milosevic With Putin
3:00 – 3:30
Julie Buckler (Harvard University)
“The Contested Cityscapes of Moscow and St. Petersburg”
3:30 – 4:00
Break
4:00 – 4:30
Lynn Patyk (University of Florida)
“The Terrorist Can-Can Can’t (Bring Down the Empire): Karen Shaxnazarov’s ‘Rider Named Death’”
4:30 – 5:00
Mischa Gabowitsch (Princeton University)
“Fighting Russian Nationalism: Antifascist Youth Culture in Russia Today”
5:00
Concluding remarks
