Second
Nevada Conference on Russian Culture:
Art and Society*
November
24, 1997
Introduction.
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Opening
Statement
Dmitri Shalin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Welcome
to Conference Participants
Carol C. Harter, UNLV President
Session
1. 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Eastern
Christianity and the Origins of Russian Artistic Culture
Sergei Averintsev, University of Vienna
Russian
Spirituality and the Theology of Negation
Mikhail Epstein, Emory University
The Culture
and Art of the Silver Age
Andrei Ariev, Editor, Zvezda
Discussant
Boris Paramonov, Radio Liberty
Luncheon.
12 noon. - 1:00 p.m.
Session
2. 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Russian
Architectural Culture
Vladimir
Paperny, Paperny and Associates
Russian
Visual Art in Contemporary and Historical Perspective
Ekaterina Degot, Trediakov Gallery
From Sots
Art to Post Art
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Conceptualist Artists
Discussant
Svetlana Boym, Harvard University
Session 3. 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
The Survival
of Art and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia
Marietta Chudakova, Moscow Literary Institute
Russian
Literary Prose in the Late 20th Century
Alexander Genis, Radio Liberty
Russian
Literary Criticism as an Art Form
Natalia Ivanova, Editor, Znamia
Discussant
Gisela Zimmermann, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
November
25, 1997
Session
4. 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Soviet
Dissident Classics in Contemporary Perspective
Alexander Zholkovsky, University of Southern California
The Art
of Dissent: Parody, Travesty and Irony in Late Soviet Culture
Dmitri Shalin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Postmodern
Poetics and Contemporary Russian Culture
Mark Lipovetsky, Illinois Wesleyan University
Discussant
Alexander Etkind, Kennan Institute
Luncheon.
12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Session 5. 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Russian
Verse as a Mirror of Perestroika
Mikhail Gasparov, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy
of Sciences
Post-Soviet
Musical Culture
Solomon Volkov, Author and Critic
Identity
Politics in Contemporary Russian Art
Boris Groys, Karlsruhe School of Art and Media
Discussant
Lev Loseff, Dartmouth College
Session
6.4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Russian
Culture at the Crossroads: Concluding Remarks
Katerina Clark, Yale University
General
Discussion
Maurice Friedberg, University of Illinois; Alla Latynina, Literaturnaia
Gazeta; Konstantin Kustanovich, Vanderbilt University; Irina Muravyova,
Brown University; and Members of the Audience
Closing
Statement
Dmitri Shalin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dinner
Reception 7:00 p.m.
Great Hall, Thomas T. Beam Engineering Complex, UNLV
November
26, 1997
Day Trip to
Zion National Park
9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
*All conference
proceedings take place in Ballroom C of the Howard Johnson Plaza Suite
Hotel, 4255 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada. A special conference
hotel rate of $59 plus tax per night is available directly with the
hotel, tel. 702-369-4000.
Web
Links
Russian
Culture at the Crossroads: Paradoxes of Postcommunist Cponsciousness
Russian
Culture at the Crossroads: Russian Intellectual Culture
UNLV Center for Democratic Culture Russian
Culture and Intelligentsia Project
First Nevada Conference on Soviet
Culture
Third Nevada Conference
on Russian Culturee
Fourth Nevada Conference on Russian Art and Culture
Cold War Art Samples
