Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Excursion to the Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk

Thursday, 3 October 2013
10:30 – 11:00 Welcome and Introduction
Katja Bruisch
Isabelle de Keghel
Katharina Kucher
Andreas Renner

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:30 Panel 1
Visualizing the Empire
Anja Burghardt: Hierarchical Orders in the Ethnographic Image
Laura Elias: Photography and Ethnography: A.N. Charuzin’s Travel to the Inner Horde
Ewa Manikowska: Survey Photography and the Shaping of National and Cultural Identities in the Western Lands of the Russian Empire
Timothy Alexander Nunan: An Empire Reframed? Soviet Documentary Photography in Postwar Central Asia
Discussant: Andreas Renner

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 Panel 2
Photography as Social Practice: The Making of Visual Orders
Nadezhda Krylova: Police Photography in Russia in the Second Half of the XIX – early XX Centuries: Visualizing the Subject and the Type
Diljara Usmanova: Photographers in the Duma: Visualization of Political Life in Late Imperial Russia
Christopher Stolarski: The Threat of Interpretation: Photography, Magazines, and Iconic Images in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-39
Discussant: Isabelle de Keghel

16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 – 18:45 Panel 3
Visual Representation of Orders and Change
Lenka Fehrenbach: Industrial Images: The Representation of Industrialization in the Photographic Imagery of Empire
Oxana Gavrishina: «…I can see the Red Square»: The Cultivation of Gaze in the 20th Century Photographs of the Red Square
Johanna Conterio: The Photograph as Autobiography: The Photographs of Nikolai Doroshchuk, 1935-1939
Discussant: Maria Golovnya

Friday, 4 October 2013

10:00 – 11:15 Panel 4 (Part I)
Visual Discourses of the Other and of the Enemy. War Visions
Oksana Sarkisova / Olga Shevchenko: “Why should you know this, son?”: The Heroic, the Banal and the Improbable Narratives of World War II on the Materials of One Domestic Photographic Archive
Erika Wolf: Photographs from the Battlefield in Frontovaia illiustratsiia and Front-Illustrierte: Images of the Enemy in Soviet Photographic Propaganda of the Great Patriotic War
Discussant: Alexander Ananyew

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break

11.30-13:30 Panel 4 (Part II)
Visual Discourses of the Other and of the Enemy. War Visions
Martin Deuerlein: The Image of Détente: Photography and Soviet-American relations during the 1970s
Roman Krawielicki: Visualizing novoe myshlenie: The Photographic Dimension of the De-escalation of Soviet-American Threat Discourses in the Eighties
Philipp Casula: The Other in Pictures of War and Peace in the Soviet Union and in Contemporary Russia
Discussant: Katharina Kucher

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 Panel 5
Challenging the Established Order: Beyond Official Photography
Ulrike Huhn: The Discovery of the Village? Ethnographic Fieldwork in Late Stalinism
Dina Gusejnova / Olga Smith: The Aesthetics of zastoi: The Social Production of the Amateur in the last Soviet Decade
Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė: The "Lithuanian Photographic School" as a Challenge to the Dominant (Visual) Order?
Discussant: Katja Bruisch

16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 – 17:45 Concluding Discussion
Klaus Gestwa
Valerij Stigneev

18:00 Reception