Conference: Cultures of Protest in Russia (Davis Center in Harvard University)

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CULTURES OF PROTEST IN RUSSIA [SCHEDULE HERE]

The Davis Center in Harvard University invites attendance to their multi-disciplinary workshop called Cultures of Protest in Russia. Researchers from Slavic Studies, Anthropology, and Political Science will present their latest work. Highlights include a training session for graduate students on the use of ethnographic methods and a conversation with contemporary artist Artem Loskutov, an organizer in the Monstration movement. Please contact Ania Azman at aaizman@g.harvard.edu with any questions or to RSVP.

March 8-9, 2018
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
CGIS-South S354
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

March 8, 2018
4-6PM Graduate Student Training Session
“How to Conduct Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Humanities”
Speaker: Fabrizio Fenghi (Brown)
Open to graduate students in the Boston area. Please RSVP to Ania Aizman (aaizman@g.harvard.edu) to register.

March 9, 2018
10-10:15AM OPENING REMARKS
Alexandra Vacroux (Harvard)

10:15AM-12PM PANEL 1: Discourses of Resistance
Chair: Xenia Cherkaev (Harvard)
Discussant: Julie Hemment (UMass Amherst)
“On Russian Conservative Postmodernism, Neo-Eurasianism, and the American Alt-Right”
Fabrizio Fenghi (Brown)
“Avant-Garde Post: Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union”
Marijeta Bozovic (Yale)
“Three Forms of Anarchist Theater-Making: Monstration, Pussy Riot, and Teatr.doc”
Ania Aizman (Harvard)

12-1PM LUNCH

1PM – 2:30PM ARTIST TALK: Art of Resistance – Monstrations in Novosibirsk and Beyond
Moderator: Maria Sidorkina (Harvard)
Speaker: Artem Loskutov [videoconferencing]      

2:30-2:45PM COFFEE BREAK

2:45PM – 4:30PM PANEL 2: Re-Imagining Protests: Innovative Tactics and New Social Networks
Chair: Thomas Remington (Harvard/Emory)
Discussant: Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina)
“Non-Identitarian Revolution: ‘Object-Oriented’ Protest Art in Russia since 2011–2012”
Jason Cieply (Wellesley)
“Counter-conduct: Analyzing Russian State Power from Below”
Maria Sidorkina (Amherst)
“Geography of Anti-Corruption Protests in Russia”
Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham)

4:45PM – 6:15PM ROUNDTABLE: New Directions in the Study of Contentious Politics in Russia
Chair: Timothy Colton (Harvard)
Julie Hemment (UMass Amherst), Adam Leeds (Harvard), Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina), Vasily Gatov (USC)

The workshop is sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Master’s Program in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.