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Clemson Conference on Russian Culture During the First World War and Revolution, 1914-1922
Clemson University Conference Center
Clemson, SC
Sponsors:
§ Clemson University Department of History
§ Clemson University College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities
§ Gerald Sonnenfeld, Clemson University Vice-President for Research
§ David Mcdonald, Mortenson-Petrovich Professor of History, University of Wisconsin
§ “Russia’s Great War and Revolution” Project: http://web.ku.edu/~russiasgreatwar/cgi-bin/index.php
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13
Arrival of participants, Greenville-Spartanburg airport, South Carolina (GSP); conference will provide transportation to Clemson University Martin Inn
Wine and cheese reception, hosted by Melissa Stockdale (details TBA)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14
9:00-9:30: Welcome--Prof. Steve Marks
9:30-11:30: Patriotism and Rumor
Moderator: Murray Frame
§ Melissa Stockdale (University of Oklahoma), “Patriotic Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-1922”
§ Colleen Moore (Indiana University), "Peasant Patriotism in Wartime Russia"
§ Corinne Gaudin (University of Ottawa), “Circulation and Production of News and Rumor in Rural Russia during World War I”
§ Boris Kolonitskii (European University of St Petersburg and Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences), "Political Leaders during the First World War and Revolution in Representations and Rumors"
11:30-12:30: Discussion
12:30-2:00: Lunch
2:00-4:00: Cultural Institutions
Moderator: Steve Marks
§ Aaron Cohen (California State University, Sacramento), “Love in the Time of Cholera. The Russian Art World and the War Experience, 1914-1917”
§ Catherine Evtuhov (Georgetown University), "The Orthodox Church in War and Revolution"
§ Murray Frame (University of Dundee), "Theater and Theatrical Discourse in Russia, 1914-22"
§ Christopher Stolarski (Johns Hopkins University), "Picturing War, Representing Nation: Russian Photojournalism during the First World War”
4:00-5:00: Discussion
[5:00-6:00: Campus tour, incl. tour of John C. Calhoun plantation house]
7:00-10:00: Dinner at the Marks’, Clemson
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
9:30-12:00: Cultural Interpretations of War and Revolution
Moderator: Melissa Stockdale
§ Alex Ogden (University of South Carolina), "Poetry, 1914-1922"
§ Christopher Stroop (Stanford University), "Russian Philosophy in War and Revolution"
§ Denise Youngblood (University of Vermont), "Silent Witness: Russian Cinema in War and Revolution, 1914-1922"
12:00-1:00: Discussion
1:00-2:00: Lunch
2:00-4:00: Cultural Manifestations
Moderator: Boris Kolonitskii
§ Martin Miller (Duke University), "Diagnostics of Violence: Russian Psychiatric Responses to the Great War"
§ Lynn Sargeant (California State University, Fullerton), “’We Need People’s Houses. We Need Thousands of People’s Houses’: The Great War, the Revolution, and the War on Backwardness”
§ Steve Marks (Clemson University) "The Russian Experience of Money, 1914-1924"
§ Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky), "Memory of the Russian Revolution and Civil War"
4:00-5:00: Discussion
7:00-10:00: Dinner in Greenville
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16
Departure; conference will provide transportation to GSP airport