Please join the Harriman Institute for a symposium: Tropes of Subversion. Organized by Tatiana Efremova, Yulia Kim, and Venya Gushchin.
Program
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
10:00 AM | Opening Remarks
10:15 AM | Panel 1: Reclaiming and Rebranding
Chair: Yulia Kim
Discussant: Ilya Vinitsky (Princeton)
- Zachary Deming (Columbia), Parquet Paralogies: Plot, Pragmatics, and Lyric Subjectivity in the Late Verse of E.A. Baratynsky
- Venya Gushchin (Columbia), Zabolotsky and Stalin’s Linguistic Turn: Between Orthodoxy and Subversion
- Kevin Platt (University of Pennsylvania), Arbitrage and Soul: Art and Contraband from New York to Moscow
12:10 PM | Panel 2: Masking and Queering
Chair: Tatiana Efremova
Discussant: Elena & Alexander Prokhorovy (William and Mary)
- Serguei Oushakine (Princeton), You Can Leave Your Mask on: Practicing Diplopia in Soviet Comedy
- Julia Vaingurt (University of Illinois Chicago), An Ethic of Weakness in Larisa Shepitko’s “The Ascent”
- Alexey Shvyrkov (Columbia), “This is Not My Progress:” Postcolonial Critique in Snail on the Slope
2:00 PM | Lunch
3:00 PM | Identification and Overidentification
Chair: Venya Gushchin
Discussant: Yuri Leving (Princeton)
- Tatiana Krasilnikova (Columbia), Overidentification on the Other Side of Ideology: How Propagandistic Art Subverts Itself
- Eliot Borenstein (New York University), The Soviet Superposition: The “Citizens of the USSR” Movement in the 21st Century
- Alexander and Elena Prokhorovy (William and Mary), Keeping Public Space Free in the Age of Repression: Anti-War Street Art and Its Digital Archive by Aleksandra Arkhipova
5:00 PM | Keynote Lecture
- Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia), Trickster-Trope Revisited
