THURSDAY, October 5
19.30 - 21.00
Panel discussion
100 Jahre Russische Revolution (Literaturhaus Zurich)
Chair: Ulrich Schmid (St.Gallen)
mit Julia Kissina (Berlin), Karl Schlögel (Frankfurt/O.), Sylvia Sasse (Zurich)
FRIDAY, October 6
09.00 - 09.15
Registration (09-FOY)
09.15 - 09.30
Opening Statement (09-011)
Dieter Thomä (St.Gallen)
09.30 - 10.45
Keynote 1:
Karl Schlögel (Frankfurt/O.): Beyond the Horizon: The Russian Revolution, Far, So Far Away (09-011)
Chair: Dieter Thomä (St.Gallen)
11.00 - 12.15
Keynote 2:
Sylvia Sasse (Zurich): Reenact Revolution? Theatre and Politics of Repetition (09-011)
Chair: Ulrich Schmid (St.Gallen)
12-15 - 13.15
Lunch Break
13.15 - 15.15
Panel 1: Revolutionary Philosophy (01-113)
Chair: Marie-Josée Lavallée (Montreal)
Naveen Kanalu (Los Angeles): Law, Absolute Will, and the Withering of the State: Sovereignty at the Limits of Lenin’s Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Sushila Ramaswamy(Delhi): Insights of Critics of Lenin: Why Were They on the Right Side of History?
Gregor Schäfer (Basel): Philosophy at the Moment of its Realization: On Lukács’ Concept of the Revolution
Panel 2: Commemorating the Revolution and the Politics of Remembrance (01-308)
Chair: Martin Mühlheim (Zurich)
Oksana Klymenko (Kiev): Soviet Politics of Memory about the October Revolution (1920s-1930s)
Tora Lane (Södertörn): The Memory of the Revolution, and the Revolution as Memory
Stephan Rindlisbacher (Tbilisi): The Legacy of the ‘October Revolution’ in Russia: Between Commemoration and Silencing
Panel 3: Religion and/as Revolution (01-U126)
Chair: Jesse Ramírez (St.Gallen)
Jack Coopey (Durham): Blessedness: Lenin and the Event of Empirico-Criticism as Praxis
Sergey Kozin (Newcastle, AU): A Religious Revolution? Accessing Lunacharsky’s Religion and Socialism from the Early 21st Century Context
Christian Schmidt (Leipzig): Revolution and Salvation
15.30 - 17.30
Panel 4: On Mass(es), the Party, and the Collective(s) (01-113)
Chair: Federica Gregoratto (St.Gallen)
Julia Christ (Paris): A Drive for Revolution? Freud’s Analysis of Revolutionary Movements in the Era of the Individual
Till Hahn (Frankfurt/M.): Can There Be a Philosophy After the Cultural Revolution? Reflections on the Dialectics of Theory, Organization and Action
Thomas Telios (St.Gallen): Learning from October: Collectives Unbound
Panel 5: The Revolution Expands: Now and Then (01-308)
Chair: Sandra King-Savic (St.Gallen)
Francesco Campagnola (Ghent): Revolution and Renaissance in Interwar Japan
Tatjana Jukic (Zagreb): Revolution in Yugoslavia as the October Redux for British Political Subjectivation
Yves Partschefeld (St.Gallen): Disruption and Restart: The Formation of the Republic of Estonia in the Context of the Russian Revolutions of 1917
Panel 6: Revolutionizing Everyday Life (01-U126)
Chair: Olena Palko (Basel)
Grzegorz Krzywiec (Warsaw): The ‘Jewish Revolutions’: A Reconsideration of the 1905 and the Russian Revolution in East Central and East European Rightist Imagination
Ibrahim Mirzayev (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Revolution and Alphabet: Reform of the Arabic Script in 1921-1937
Philipp Casula (Zurich/Manchester): The Revolution Goes On: The Soviet Union and the Third World
17.30 - 18.00
Coffee Break
18.00 - 19.15
Keynote 3:
Christoph Menke (Frankfurt/M.): Is a Revolution (Still) Possible? (09-011)
Chair: Dieter Thomä (St.Gallen)
19.30
Reception (09-FOY)
SATURDAY, October 7
09.30 - 10.45
Keynote 4:
Donatella Della Porta (Florence): ‘Like a House of Cards’: Time Intensity in Revolutions (52-7024)
Chair: Thomas Telios (St.Gallen)
11.00 - 13.00
Panel 7: The Philosophical Discourse on Revolution (52-5120 )
Chair: Federica Gregoratto (St.Gallen)
Marie-Josée Lavallée (Montreal): The Future of Revolution after the Russian Revolution: The Reconceptualizations of Arendt, Adorno and Marcuse
Jacob Dahl Rendtorf (Roskilde): The Phantom of Stalin: Jean-Paul Sartre's Philosophy of the Russian Revolution
Oliver Flügel-Martinsen (Bielefeld) / Franziska Martinsen (Hannover): What’s Left? Is There a Post-Marxist Concept of Revolution?
Panel 8: Founding Revolutionary Practices (52-6120)
Chair: Sergey Kozin (Newcastle, AU)
Sigrun Bielfeldt (Tübingen): Andrey Belyi’s Epistemology of the Russian Revolution
Vanessa Rampton (Zurich): The Idea of Progress in History, or the Relationship between 1905 and 1917
Josette Baer Hill (Zurich): ‘I Did Not Want To Lie’: Thomas Garrigue Masaryk and the Intellectual Failure of the Russian Revolution
Panel 9: Revolutionary Law: Between Peace and
Violence (52-7024)
Chair: Carl David Mildenberger (St.Gallen)
Monika Kareniauskaite (Vilnius): The Criminal Justice System in Soviet Russia during October Revolution and Civil War: Chaos, Experiment, or Model for Communist Transformations in 20th-Century Europe?
Irina Gordeeva (Moscow): The ‘Tolstoian’ Origins of the Idea of ‘Peaceful Revolution’ in Russia
Aleksander Miłosz Zielinski (Fribourg): Is Thinking a Peaceful Revolution a Contradiction in Itself?
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch Break
14.00 - 16.00
Panel 10: The Revolution’s Sex and Gender (52-5120)
Chair: Josette Baer (Zurich)
Olga Baranova (Vienna): The Role of Bolshevik Revolution for Women's Emancipation in Russia
Darabos Eniko (Budapest): The Revolution of Sexual Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe (1920-1930)
Tatiana Kozhemyako (Stavropol): The Attempts to Change Female Status as Re ected in the Plans and
Projects of the Bolsheviks: The Experience of the North Caucasus
Panel 11: Aesthetic Readings of the Revolution (52-6120)
Chair: Emmanuel Alloa (St.Gallen)
Olena Palko (Basel): Mythologizing the Revolution: The Representations of the Russian Revolution in Ukrainian and Russian Revolutionary Literature
Ksenia Golovko (St.Gallen): Utopia and Revolution: Vladimir Tatlin’s Social Art
Behzad Khosravi (Stockholm): Dialogue with Revolution: From Vertov to Tarkovsky. Narrative Strategy and Post-Revolutionary Film Practices in Iran
Panel 12: Revolutionary Constants: Between Contingency and Necessity (52-7024)
Chair: Vanessa Rampton (Zurich)
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (Södertörn): The Revolution of the Sketch Judith Mohrmann (Frankfurt/M.): The Role of A ect in Revolutions
Jörg Metelmann (St.Gallen): 1517-1917-2017: Re-Formations of the Body
16.00 - 18.00
Break
18.00 - 21.00
Public Lectures: ‘The Long Night of Revolution(s)’
(Cinema Palace)
Keynote 5:
Geo roy de Lagasnerie (Cergy-Pontoise): The Concepts of Revolution
Keynote 6:
Jean-Luc Nancy (Strasbourg): A Conversation on Revolution
Chair: Thomas Telios (St.Gallen)
21.00 - Open End: Party