Thursday, 17th of April 2008
IBB Hotel Erfurt
14: 45 Guided Tour: Erfurt – its Imperial Traces of the Soviet Union
16:30 University of Erfurt, LG 1/247 b
Registration, Formalities, Coffee & Tea
18:00 University of Erfurt, LG 1/Hörsaal 3
Introduction (Holt Meyer, Erfurt)
Section I: Conceptions of the Imperial
Susanne Frank (Konstanz): “The Imperial Conceptualization of Soviet Space”
Tanja Zimmermann (Erfurt): “Tito’s „Third Path“ – a Neo-Avant-Garde of Marxism”
Friday, 18th of April 2008
Max Weber Kolleg, Am Hügel 1
10:00
Section II: Text and Visual Media
Kevin Anding (Erfurt): „Gagarin’s Smile“
Mark Bassin (Birmingham): „Landscape/Nature in Socialist Realist Art"
Davor Beganovic (Konstanz): “The Role of the Hero in Jugoslaw Cinema in the Sixties.”
Claudia Kraft (Erfurt): “Languages of Empire – Mieczyslaw Moczar and “The Colours of a Fight“
Irina Sandomirskaja (Stockholm): "Stalin as Onomatopoeia: Nikolai Zabolotskii's Poem "Reading Poetry" and the Soviet Doctrine of Language, 1948-51"
Section III: Audio-Visual Media
Jan C. Behrends (Berlin): Defending the Soviet Garden and Constructing the Empire of Peace: Cinema, Text, and Ritual around 1950”
Anatolij Korcinckij (Moskau): “The Space as an Event: Gagarin and Modern Movies”
Natascha Drubek-Meyer (Prag): “Singing, Dancing and Translating „from the Walachian Mountains to Berlin“ (A Czechoslovak Socialist Film Musical of 1952)”
Vitek Schmarc (Prag): “A Visit to Ruda’s Flat: The Mythologization of Space in Czechoslovak Socialist Realism”
13:00 Lunch Break
15:00
Section IV a: Organization of Space: Architecture
Nancy Aris (Dresden): “A Hint of Empire: the Moscow Metro in the 1930th - Building a New Identity”
Tatiana Petzer (Berlin): Belgrade – Brioni Isles – Bled. Tito’s Villas as Manifestations of Imperial Ease”
Tomas Pospiszyl (Prag): "Late Socialist Architecture in Czechoslovakia"
Alexander Sologubov (Kaliningrad): “Imperial Traces and Gaps in the Space of Kaliningrad”
Andrzej Szczerski (Krakau): “Hotels of the 1970s”
Section IV b: Performance of Space: Ritual
Maja Brkljacic (Zagreb): “Ritual Performances Related to the Body of the Marshall of Yugoslavia, Tito”
Tom Jürgens (Berlin): “Imperial Traces of the "ekskursionnoe delo" in the USSR “
Holt Meyer (Erfurt): “Giving Stalinist Academic Rituals a Space: Big Lermontov is Watching Marr and Me and Humming a Tune”
Section V: The Politics of Institutions and Media
Tomas Glanc (Prag): „The Orthodox Ritualization of the Imperial in Late Stalinism (the 40s)”
Jiri Knapik (Opava): “Czechoslovak Film Institutions”
Jurij Troijckij (Moskau): „Gagarin and Mass Youth Organization“
Pavel Kolar (Potsdam): “Narrating the Imperial in the Marxist Vein: Representations of Empire in Czechoslovak and Austrian Communist Historiography after 1945“
Saturday , 19th of April 2008
Max Weber Kolleg, Am Hügel 1
10:00 Presentations about the Sections II-V
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Discussion about the next stage of the project: www.imperialtraces.org
What will come next? – The multi-medial work