PROTEST & COUNTERCULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA
PROGRAM OF EVENTS
All events are free and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014
Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St.
6:00-7:30pm Screening of documentary film Winter, Go Away! (Зима, уходи!, 2012)
7:30-8:00 Discussion with co-director Anna Moiseenko
8:00-9:00 Reception
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014
Max Kade Room, 1501 University Hall
601 S. Morgan St.
1:00-2:15pm Student Presentations: Imagined Art Actions
Moderator: Colleen McQuillen (Associate Professor, Slavic & Baltic Department, UIC)
Each of six students from the course Protest and Counterculture in Post-Soviet Russia will present his/her ideas for staging a protest or intervention relating to a topic of concern in contemporary Russian society. Using Foucault’s ideas about power and resistance, students will explain how their imagined actions disrupt the social or political status quo.
Students: Cai O’Connell, Olga Pushkarskaya, Jeremy Taluzek, Kerry Gawne, Olga Johnson, Serhii Tereshchenko
2:30-3:45 Art Activism and Public Space
Chair: Julia Vaingurt (Associate Professor, Slavic & Baltic Department, UIC)
Alexis Zimberg (PhD student at the University of Toronto and Director, Post-Soviet Graffiti): "Russian Street Art: A Contemporary Response to State Censorship, Civic Responsibility, and the Control of Information"
Jonathan Brooks Platt (Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh): “Hysteria or Staged Enjoyment: Some Questions about Voina”
Julia Bekman Chadaga (Assistant Professor, Macalester College): “Suspending the Bomb: War and Peace in Russian Protest Art”
3:45-4:00pm Coffee break
4:00-5:30pm Roundtable Discussion: Law and Lawlessness in Russia Today
Moderator: Marina Mogilner (Associate Professor, History, UIC)
Participants (Click here to read their bios):
Jordan Gans-Morse
Pavel Ivlev
Ambassador Ian C. Kelly
Kirill Medvedev
Anna Moiseenko
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014
Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St.
6:00-8:00pm Kirill Medvedev, Poetry and Music Performance