Rafael Ugarte Chacón, Forschungskoordination und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Kunsthistorisches Institit in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
All time CEST (Florence, Italy)
Thursday, July 1
10:00 Welcome and introductory remarks by Gerhard Wolf
10:10 Introduction, Julie Deschepper
10:30–12:30 Panel 1. Soviet Experiments: From the Everyday to Geological Time
Chair: Gerhard Wolf
Nick Baron, University of Nottingham
‘The Friction of Time against Space’: Cartographic Temporalities in Stalinist Culture
Natalia Maksimishina, CEU Budapest
Radio City in the Soviet Arctic: Time and Temporality in the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s
Andreas Schönle, University of Bristol
The Five-Day Week and Soviet Temporality in the Early 1930s
Ana María Gómez López, University of Amsterdam
Deep Space, Deep Time: Ivan Efremov’s Paleontological and Intergalactic Explorations of Past and Future Planetary Histories
14:00–15:30 Panel 2. Temporalities in Early Soviet Socialism
Chair: Antony Kalashnikov
Federica Rossi, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Appropriating History: Architecture and Time in Early Soviet Era
Reed Johnson, Bowdoin College
Last Stop, Communism: Time as Space in the Soviet Political Poster
Harriet Murav, University of Illinois
The Longing to Arrive: The Yiddish Socialist Realist Fiction of David Bergelson
16:00–18:00 Panel 3. Socialism and Material Heritage
Chair: Julie Deschepper
Irina Sandomirskaja, Södertörn University
From Nasledie to Nasledie: Fragments of History of the Soviet Symbolic Economy of the Past
Vladimir Kulić, Iowa State University
History Re-Stitched: The Simultaneous Temporalities of Yugoslav War Memorials
Oana Ţiganea, Politecnico di Milano
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Heritage-Making Process in Socialist Romania. The Case Study of the Industrial Built Legacy in Banat and Transylvania
Caterina Preda, University of Bucharest
“Dear Comrades, Visit Your Past!”: the Politics of Daily Life Museums of Communism in Romania
Friday, July 2
11:00–12:30 Panel 4. Embodied Time: Art, Fashion, and Design
Chair: TBA
Ekaterina Kulinicheva, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
From Enemy to Ally: Late Soviet Theory of Fashion and the Problem of Time
Hana Gründler, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
The Weight of Time. Time and Temporality in Czech ‘Non-Conformist’ Art and Philosophy, 1960–1980
Dora Derado, University of Split, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Time = Money: The Relationship of (Art)Work and Time in the Socialist Republic of Croatia as Seen through the Works of Mladen Stilinović
14:00–16:00 Panel 5. Time Materialized: Socialist Transcultural Encounters
Chair: Antony Kalashnikov
Carlotta Castellani, Università di Firenze
Lenin’s Monument Projects. El Lissitzky and László Peri’s New Space-Time Conceptions
Mariya Petrova, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig
Jonas Van der Straeten, Technical University of Darmstadt
Rhythms, Rush and Stubborn Materialities: The Disconnected Temporalities of Sovietizing Samarkand
Douglas Gabriel, George Washington University
Adri Kácsor, Northwestern University
Architecture in Anticipation: The Time and Space of Socialist Friendship between Hungary and North Korea in the 1950s
Uta Leconte, Technical University of Munich
Response and Delay: Building Interdependent Ideologies at the Case of the World Trade Center Buildings in Moscow and New York
16:30-18:30 Panel 6. The Urban Environment and Remediated Temporality
Chair: Gabriella Cianciolo
Marie-Madeleine Ozdoba, German Center for Art History–DFK Paris
Building the New Times of Socialism: Trans-medial Narratives in the Center of Berlin, Capital of the GDR
Martin Babička, Oxford University
“Today in a House”: Time and the City on Late Socialist Czechoslovak TV
Deirdre Madeleine Smith, University of Texas
“Požuri polako” (Hurry Slowly): Impatience, Disjuncture and the Urban Pastoral in Socialist Zagreb
Julia Keblinska, UC Berkeley
New Era, New Media: The Techno-Aesthetic Temporality of Chinese Postsocialism
18:30 Conclusion, Federica Rossi