Andrea Keller, Historisches Seminar, Abteilung für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Universität Zürich
10:15-10:30
Introduction
Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller (U of Zurich)
10:30-12:30
Panel I: Materialism(s)
Chair: Anna Sokolova (U of Zurich)
Serguei A. Oushakine (Princeton U):
Veshchism: What did we know about New Materialism before it became fashionable?
Alexey Golubev (U of Houston):
Elemental Materialism in Soviet Culture and Society
Comment: Craig Campbell (U of Texas at Austin)
12:30-14:00
Lunch break
14:00-16:00
Panel II: Things and Objects
Chair: Tatiana Voronina (U of Zurich)
Yulia Karpova (U of Aarhus/Budapest):
"Stabilizing objects": developing product design guidelines for Soviet North-Western countryside, 1973-1975
Alyona Sokolnikova (Moscow Design Museum/ Stuttgart):
A Secret Life of Things: experimental concepts&objects of the late Soviet design.
Comment: Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller (U of Zurich)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:30
Panel III Nature and Landscapes
Chair: Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller (U of Zurich)
Anna Sokolova (U of Zurich):
Urbanizing the woods: timber industry settlements in late Soviet Karelia
Tyler Adkins (Princeton University):
Talkan in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The History of the Senses and the Senses of History in Altai Republic, Siberia.
Craig Campbell (U of Texas at Austin):
Communist Cement: Theses on late Soviet Industrialism and the Siberian Pastoral
Comment: Alexey Golubev (U of Houston)
Concluding discussion
19:30 Dinner