International Conference “Russian Émigré Culture: Conservatism or Evolution?”

International Conference “Russian Émigré Culture: Conservatism or Evolution?”
Universität des Saarlandes, Campus Saarbrücken, 18–19 November 2011, Geb. C7 4, Konferenzsaal
Friday, 18 November 2011
9.00 Christoph Flamm / Henry Keazor / Roland Marti (Saarbrücken): Introduction
Section 1: Russian Émigré culture in general and literature, chair: Roland Marti
9.30 Margarita Kononova (Moscow): The Traditions of Russian Pre-Revolutionary Diplomacy in
Emigration
10.00 Katharina Bauer (Gießen): Literaturkritik im Dienste der ideologischen Selbstprofilierung:
Aleksej N. Tolstojs Abrechnung mit der Emigration
10.30 Julia Elsky (Yale): L’Enfant prodige: Irène Némirovsky and Jewish Russia as the Irretrievable
Origin
11.00 Coffee break
Section2: Arts, chair: Henry Keazor
11.30 Luca Skansi (Venice): What is Artistic Form? Munich and Russia/USSR (1900–1925)
12.00 Artur Kamczycki (Poznań): “Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge”. El Lissitzky's Jewish
Inspirations and Their Echo in Later Jewish and Non-Jewish Art
12.30 Elina Knorpp (Cologne): Natalja Gontscharowas Exilwerk
13.00 Lunch break
14.00 Jelena Mezinski Milovanović (Belgrade): Activities of Russian Émigré Fine Arts Artists in
Serbia (1920–1950) – the Conservative and the Modern
14.30 Ivana Medic (Manchester / London): The Role of Russian Emigration in the Establishing of
Serbian Cultural Institutions
15.00 Gabriella Uhl (Tallinn): Identity-shock. The Appearance of Multiple Identities in the Art of El
Kazovszkij
16.00 7th Concert Festival „Russische Musik im Exil“, University Campus, Aula
18.00 Refreshments
20.00 8th Concert Festival „Russische Musik im Exil“, Rathaus / Town Hall
– Dinner –
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Section 3: Music, chair: Christoph Flamm
9.00 Marina Lupishko (Le Havre): Stravinsky's Svadebka (1917–23) as the Quintessence of the
Technique of „Building Blocks”
9.30 Thomas Radecke (Saarbrücken): „Ich habe kein Land, ich habe keinen Platz.“ Die grenzenlose
künstlerische Heimat des Alfred Schnittke
10.00 Katerina Levidou (Lausanne): Eurasianism in Perspective: Suvchinsky, Lourié and the Silver
Age
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Anya Leveillé (Bern): Russian Musical Life in Paris in the 1920s
11.30 Maria Bychkova (Hannover): Russische Musikinstitutionen im Berlin der 1920-er Jahre: zur
Struktur eines Netzwerkes im Exil
12.00 Anna Fortunova (Hannover): Russische kollektive Identität im Exil und Musik im Berlin der
zwanziger Jahre
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Olesja Bobrik (Moscow): Arthur Lourié und die russische Emigrantengemeinde: ein Fremder
unter den Seinen
14.00 Patrick Zuk (Durham): Soviet Musical Life in the 1920-1930s in the Mirror of the
Myaskovsky–Prokofiev Correspondence
14.30 Mosusova, Nadezda (Belgrad): The Significance of two Avant-garde Operas Presented in
Belgrade between the two World Wars: Vanka the Key-keeper by Nikolai Tcherepnin and
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Dmitri Shostakovich
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 Elena Dubinets (Seattle): Contemporary Émigré Composers: How Russian are they?
16.00 Final discussion
– Documentary movie „Artur Lourié and Anna Achmatova“ (in Russian) –
19.00 Closing Concert Festival „Russische Musik im Exil“, Hochschule für Musik / University of
Music
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