Thursday, February 16
10:00 - 10:30Welcome and Introduction
Nikolaus Katzer (DHI Moscow), Julia Herzberg (RCC Munich)
10:30 - 13:30 Session1: Mundane and Exceptional Times
Chair: Andreas Renner (Tübingen)
Svetlana A. Rafikova (Krasnoiarsk)
Siberian Frosts and the Everyday Adaptation Practices of City Dwellers
Katarzyna Chimiak (Warsaw)
Challenging Crisis: Human Strategies of Adaptation and Survival during the Winter of 1946/1947 in Dnepropetrovsk, Łódź, Essen, and Manchester
Discussion
Coffee break
Anthony J. Heywood (Aberdeen)
Transport for War in a Cold Climate: Russia’s Railways, July 1914 - March 1917
Aleksandr L. Kuz’minykh (Vologda)
The Wehrmacht and the Russian Winter: the Influence of Climate on German Servicemen on the Front and in Soviet Captivity (1941-1956)
Discussion
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:30 - 18:00 Session 2: Coping with Cold
Chair: Erki Tammiksaar (Tartu)
Andy Bruno (Urbana-Champaign)
Tumbling Snow: Avalanches in the Soviet North
Marc Elie (Paris)
Winter Sports, Ice Sciences, and Avalanches in Soviet Central Asia, 1950s-1980s
Discussion
Coffee break
Aleksandr V. Anan'ev (Moscow)
Heroes of the Ice: Two Masculine Identity Scripts of the Soviet Era—Hockey Player and Polar Explorer—and their Actualization at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Aleksei D. Popov (Simferopol’)
Winter Tourism in the Soviet Union: School of Courage, Competitive Brand, National Pastime
Discussion
18:00 Conference dinner
Friday, February 17
09:30 - 12:30 Session 3: Changing Climates
Chair: Carolin F. Roeder (Harvard)
Julia Lajus (St. Petersburg), Sverker Sörlin (Stockholm)
Cryo-Connections, Political Friendship and the Prospects of an Ice–Free Arctic, 1928–1955
Paul Josephson (Waterville)
Soviet Efforts to Transform Nature in the Russian Northwest (Arkhangelsk and Murmansk provinces, Karelian Republic)
Discussion
Coffee break
Jonathan Oldfield (Glasgow)
Conceptualisations of Climate Change amongst Soviet Geographers from ca. 1945 to the early 1970s
Denis J. B. Shaw (Birmingham)
The Subarctic: A Classic Study of the Tundra
Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:50 Session 4: Civilizing Coldness
Chair: Marc Elie (Paris)
Ekaterina A. Degal’tseva (Biisk)
Sibirsk as a Concentrated Concept of Russian Cold (a Case Study of the Nineteenth Century)
Nataliia N. Rodigina (Novosibirsk)
From the Country of Cold and Darkness to the Promised Land: the Role of the Climate in the Construction of Siberia’s Image in the Russian Magazine Press of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Ian W. Campbell (Davis, CA)
The Nomad Who Came in from the Cold: Zhut and Civilizational Difference in the Late Nineteenth Century
Discussion
Coffee break
David Saunders (Newcastle)
Commerce and Technology in the Development of the Russian Arctic (1862-1921)
Erki Tammiksaar (Tartu)
Russian South Pole Expedition in the Context of Political Interests of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Discussion
Coffee break
17:50 - 19:00 Session 5: Imagining Coldness
Chair: Julia Herzberg (Munich)
Oksana Bulgakova (Mainz)
Global Warming
Roman Mauer (Mainz)
The Aesthetics of Cold and National Trauma in Film: Escape from a Siberian POW Camp
Discussion
Saturday, February 18
09:30 - 11:30 Session 6: Metaphors and Narratives
Chair: Roman Mauer (Mainz)
Anna A. Kotomina (Moscow)
Presenting the Theme of Cold Climate to a Popular Audience in Public Readings, 1890-1910
Susanne Frank (Berlin)
Permafrost as a Metaphor of Memory in Russian GULAG Literature (Pavel Florenskii, Varlam Shalamov)
J. P. Schovanec (Alfortville)
Frost as a Spiritual Experience: Written Accounts of Foreign Detainees in Stalinist Camps
Discussion
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:40 Session 7: Representations Between Science and Politics
Chair: Paul Josephson (Waterville)
Pey-Yi Chu (Princeton)
Mapping Permafrost Country: Visualizations of Frozen Earth in Russian History
Carolin F. Roeder (Harvard)
A Creature of the Cold War: Soviet Science and the Snowman
Discussion
12:40 - 13:30 Concluding Session
Klaus Gestwa (Tübingen)
Concluding Remarks
Discussion