Dumpster Diving and SustainabilityManaging the Limited Resources of Culture

BLUE NOSES EXHIBITION & LECTURE Saturday, October 18th 2:15-3:45Room 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Sponsored by: The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Graduate School, REEES, the Council of the Humanities, PIIRS, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, IHUM, the English Department, the Department of French and Italian, and the Program in European Cultural Studies

Bad Conventions10/17 • 10:00–11:30

Discussant: Jon StoneFranklin & Marshall College

Chair: Marcos CisnerosPrinceton University

Tatyana GershkovichHarvard University

Tolstoy’s ‘Bad’ Art Theory

Philipp KohlHumboldt University of Berlin

‘Что такое хорошо и что такое плохо’: How Prigov Does Things with Values

Elizaveta BerezinaHigher School of Economics, Moscow

‘Formula painting’: Between Commerce and Artistic Inspiration

The Politics ofthe Abject10/17 • 11:35–13:15

Discussant: Ilya VinitskyUniversity of Pennsylvania

Chair: Victoria JuharyanPrinceton University

Emily WangPrinceton University

Ryleev’s Dumy and the Decembrist Conception of Russian History

Yana SkorobogatovUniversity of California, Berkeley

Revolution on Their Mind: Writing a Solidarity Letter under Brezhnev

Theodora Kelly TrimbleUniversity of Pittsburgh

Eurovision and Global Performance: How Russian Pop Music ‘сошла с ума’

HistoricalLandscapes10/17 • 14:30–16:30

Discussant: Nariman SkakovStanford University

Chair: Natalia KlimovaPrinceton University

Isabel LaneYale University

Remnants of the Cold War: Nuclear Anxiety and Its Byproducts

Svetlana SirotininaFreie Universität Berlin

Aleksei Ivanov and the Matrix of the Urals

Daniil LeidermanPrinceton University

Trash, Zombies, Violence and the Post-Soviet Landscape

Elizabeth Pearl MorganMcGill University, Montreal

Re-purposing Literary ‘Trash’: Recycled History and Pseudointellectual Narrative in Boris Akunin’s Erast Fandorin Detective Novels

The Discarded10/18 • 10:00–11:30

Discussant: Helena GosciloThe Ohio State University

Chair: Massimo BalloniPrinceton University

Roman WidderHumboldt University of Berlin

Poor People and Bad Writing: The Sentimentality of the Poor in Dostoevsky’s Бедные люди

Jennifer WilsonPrinceton University

The Importance of Being a Nihilist: Oscar Wilde’s Vera

Ksenia NourilRutgers University

Applying the Fantastic: Women and the Third Way in the Art of Polish Contemporary Artist Paulina Ołowska

Abfallhandel:Consumptionand Exchange 10/18 • 11:45–13:15

Discussant: Katherine Hill ReischlPrinceton University

Chair: Geoff Cebula Princeton University

Natalie RyabchikovaUniversity of Pittsburgh

The Soviet Cinephiles: ‘Bad Art’ and the Soviet Montage School

Rachel WetzlerThe Graduate Center, CUNY

Modernist Misappropriations: ‘The International Exhibition of Modern Art—Armory Show’ in Yugoslavia

Thomas SkowronekHumboldt University of Berlin

Being Bad the Right Way: Sasnal and Kossack on the Polish Art Market

Keynote Speaker | October 17th • 17:00• Catriona Kelly University of Oxford

Rubbish Art: Objects and Texts at the Borders of Culture *all panels held in East Pyne 010

The Vogue of Labor by Blue Noses

Graduate Conference in Slavic Languages and LiteraturesPrinceton University | October 17–18, 2014