SHERA at ASEEES: Business Meeting and Panels of Interest

Thursday, November 10, 2022 (The Palmer House Hilton)

1:00 PM-2:45 PM (CST) – Thu Nov 10 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Session: All Falls Down: Economic Precarity, Persona and Identity, and Political Dissent in Contemporary Russian and Polish Hip Hop

Chair: Maria Kustova, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers: 'Kto ubil Marka?': On Identity, Poetic Persona, and the Works of Oxxxymiron - Aleksandra   Marciniak, U of Michigan

The Bronx via Jeżyce: Performing Race, Poverty, and Genre in Polish Hip-Hop - Alena Gray Aniskiewicz, Michigan State U

Russian Rap as Political Dissent and Social Commentary: Noize MC, Kasta, Husky, and Face - Veronika Williams, U of Arizona

3:15 PM-5:00 PM (CST) – Thu Nov 10 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, The Marshfield Room)

Session: Painters, Politics, Patronage: Expatriate Agency in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Chair: Wendy R. Salmond, Chapman U

Papers: Exploring Mythology in Europe: Early Paintings by Andrei Matveev and Anton Losenko -   Margaret Samu, The New School

Projecting Sovereignty across the Baltic Sea - Rosalind Polly Blakesley, U of Cambridge (UK)

Acquiring Antiquities in Europe: Empresses Catherine the Great and Maria Fyodorovna of Russia - Catherine Phillips, European U at St. Petersburg (Russia)

3:15 PM-5:00 PM (CST) – Thu Nov 10 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 7)

Session: Socialism or Barbarism I: Negotiating Confinement and Exile in Czechoslovak Art during the Second World War

Chair: Jindrich Toman, U of Michigan

Papers: Underground Surrealism in Nazi-Occupied Prague - Barbora Bartunkova, Yale U

The Wall of a Parisian Jail as a Support for Painting: The Work of Alén Diviš - Anna Pravdová, National Gallery Prague (Czech Republic)

Madame Europa in America: The Czech Dancer Míra Holzbachová’s Years of Exile - Meghan Leigh Forbes, U of Iowa

Friday, November 11, 2022 (The Palmer House Hilton)

8:00 AM-9:45 AM (CST) – Fri Nov 11 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, The Marshfield Room)

Roundtable: Socialist Realisms in the World (Of Russian Imperialism)

Chair: Jane Ashton Sharp, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

Roundtable Members:

Adrienn Kacsor, Northwestern U

Christina Kiaer, Northwestern U

Olena Martynyuk, Columbia U

Maria Mileeva, The Courtauld Institute of Art (UK)

Michał Murawski, U College London (UK)

8:00 AM-9:45 AM (CST) – Fri Nov 11 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Roundtable: Book Discussion: "Art in a Disrupted World, Poland 1939-49," by Agata Pietrasik

Chair: Magdalena Moskalewicz, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Roundtable Members:

David Anthony Goldfarb, Independent Scholar

Agata Justyna Pietrasik, Freie U Berlin (Germany)

Julia Secklehner, Masaryk U (Czech Republic)

Joanna Szupinska, UCLA

10:15 AM-12:00 PM (CST) – Fri Nov 11 (The Palmer House Hilton, 7th Floor, LaSalle 1)

Session: Activating Archives: Mass Media and New Methods in the Understudied Avant-Gardes

Chair: Maria Kokkori, Art Institute of Chicago

Papers: Found Footage, Lost Film: Esfir Shub’s Russia of Nicholas II and Lev Tolstoi and the Question of     Authorship - Anastasia Kostina, Yale U

Documentary Practices in Varvara Stepanova and Aleksandr Rodchenko’s 1930s Photobooks - Olivia Crough, Harvard U

Disassembling Documents/Cutting Content: Newspaper Collage and Wartime Censorship in Varvara Stepanova’s Gaust chaba - Kamila Kocialkowska, U Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

'Glasnost? Zaumnost!': Rea Nikonova and Understanding Mail Artists through the Historic Avant-garde - Margarita Delcheva, UC Santa Barbara

10:15 AM-12:00 PM (CST) – Fri Nov 11 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Session: The Construction of Memory, Protests, and National Identities in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus

Chair: Eve Barden, U of Pittsburgh

Papers: Literary Spaces, Political Statements: Shifting Ukrainian National Identity on Display in Kyiv’s          Bulgakov Museum - Kathleen Macfie, UNC at Greensboro

Remembering the Nuclear Event: The Construction of Memory about Chernobyl in Street Art and Murals - Olga Klimova, U of Pittsburgh

The Protests, Symbols and Religion: An Uneasy Encounter in the Post-Election Belarus - Sergei Mudrov, Polotsk State U (Belarus)

Religion in post-Soviet Nation-Building: Belarus and Ukraine Compared - Nikolay Zakharov, Södertörn U (Sweden)

2:00-3:45 PM (CST) – Fri Nov 11 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Crystal Room)

Roundtable: Rethinking the Canon: What is to be Done about “The Great Russian Culture”?

Chair: Maria Taroutina, Yale-NUS College (Singapore)

Roundtable Members:

Molly Brunson, Yale U

Aglaya Glebova, UC Berkeley

Michael M. Kunichika, Amherst College

Olena Martynyuk, Columbia U

2:00-3:45 PM (CST) – Fri Nov 11 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Roundtable: Socialism’s Anti-Racisms in Global Art, Literature, and Visual Culture

Chair: Naomi Caffee, Reed College

Roundtable Members:

Naomi Caffee, Reed College

Marie Gasper-Hulvat, Kent State U at Stark

Isabelle Kaplan, George Washington U

Angelina Lucento, NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia)

Olga Nefedova, NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia)

4:15-6:00 PM (CST) – Fri Nov 11 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Session: Against the Grain: Voices of Opposition in Southeast European Literature, Film, and Culture

Chair: Patrick H. Patterson, UC San Diego

Papers: From the Other Side by Other Means: Politics, Neoliberalism, and Resistance in the Socialist   Punk and New Wave of Yugoslavia - Matthew T Boyd, Ohio State U

The Fairy Tale vs. the Real: Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić’s Long Century - Gordana Crnkovic, U of Washington

Topography of Truth: Islands as Ethical Terra Firma in Croatian Film - Aida Vidan, Boston University

Cut Ups: First Blood (Yugoslavia, Experiment, Hollywood) - Pavle Levi, Stanford U

4:15-6:00 PM (CST) – Fri Nov 11 (The Palmer House Hilton, 7th Floor, Sandburg 5)

Session: The In/Visibility of Precarity: Central European Poverty on Display after the Great Depression

Chair: Julia Secklehner, Masaryk U (Czech Republic)

Papers: Ernst Neuschul: Representing Worker’s Movement and the Succession of Style - Christian Drobe,      Masaryk U (Czech Republic)

Photographing Precarity: Social Photography Exhibitions in 1930s Central Europe - Julia Secklehner, Masaryk U (Czech Republic)

Fair Precarity: Central European Emigres at American World’s Fairs, 1933-40 - Marta Filipova, Masaryk U (Czech Republic)

Saturday, November 12, 2022 

8:00 AM-9:45 AM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton,  7th Floor , Sandburg 3)

Session: Book Discussion: "Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union," by Christina Crawford

Chair: Michał Murawski, U College London (UK)

Roundtable Members:

Christina Elizabeth Crawford, Emory U

Ievgeniia Gubkina, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Ukraine)

Steven E. Harris, U of Mary Washington

Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Iowa State U

Katherine Zubovich, SUNY Buffalo

8:00 AM-9:45 AM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Session: That Precarious Moscow Conceptualism: Reception Inside and Outside of the Canon

Chair: K. Andrea Rusnock, Indiana U South Bend

Papers: ‘Where is the Line Between Us?’: Studying the Transnational Reception History of Moscow   Conceptualism with Network Analysis - Dorine Schellens, Leiden U (Netherlands)

Precarious Moscow Conceptualism, 1975–1985 - Mary A. Nicholas, Lehigh U

Distortions in Non-Conformism and Dissent - Daniel Bozhkov, Independent Scholar

10:15 AM-12:00 PM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Session: Subverting the Official: Unofficial Russian Art from the 1950s to Present Day

Chair: Samuel Proffitt Driver, Brown U

Papers: The War, Masculinity, and Death in the Visual Art of Sergei Parajanov - Simon Garibyan, U of          Southern California

A-Ya Magazine: Canonizing Unofficial - Sofia Verba, Brown U

Institutionalization of the Artistic Activities of Anatoly Osmolovsky and Avdey Ter- Oganyan: Exhibiting, Education, Theory - Yelena Aydinyan, Brown U

Kirill Medvedev's Avant-Garde Crisis - Olivia Kennison, Brown U

10:15 AM-12:00 PM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 7th Floor, Sandburg 5)

Session: Music at the Margins: On Music and Precarity: I

Chair: Anastasia Gordienko, U of Arizona

Papers: Nizovaia Traditsiia and The Great Russian Orchestra: National Identity & Music in Late          Nineteenth-Century Russia - Anya Shatilova, Wesleyan U

Conservatory to GULAG: Mikhail Nosyrev’s Capriccio for Violin - Alexandra Birch, UC Santa Barbara

Music on the Margin: Precarity and the New Life Festival in Teriberka, Russia - Jessica K. Graybill, Colgate U

12:30-2:15 PM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Roundtable: Rethinking Cultural Histories in the Russian/Baltic Space

Chair: Valerie Ann Kivelson, U of Michigan

Roundtable Members:

Rosalind Polly Blakesley, U of Cambridge (UK)

Philip Ross Bullock, U of Oxford (UK)

Galina Mardilovich, Independent Scholar

Jane Ashton Sharp, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

12:30-2:15 PM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 7th Floor, Sandburg 3)

Session: Utopianism and the Late Soviet Built Environment: New Perspectives

Chair: Victoria Smolkin, Wesleyan U

Papers: Relations without Purpose: Architecture, Design and Communication in the 1970s Soviet Union -      Andres Kurg, Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia)

Cybernetics & Standardization: A Late-Soviet Vision for Housing Development - Nikolay Erofeev, U of Oxford (UK)

Back to the Present: The Golden Age of Soviet Architectural Heritage under Brezhnev - Julie Deschepper, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Italy)

Everlasting Monuments: Soviet Architecture in Post-1956 Utopian Literature - Antony Kalashnikov, U of Alberta (Canada)

12:30-2:15 PM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 7th Floor, Sandburg 5)

Session: Music at the Margins: On Music and Precarity: II

Chair: Karen Joan Evans-Romaine, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Papers: Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra - David Anthony Goldfarb, Independent         Scholar

Music at the Margins of Prose?: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Fourth Symphony (1970) - Jan Czarnecki, U of Cologne (Germany)

The Magic in the Mix: Cultural Precarity and Celebration in the Music of Tamara Obrovac - Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana U Bloomington

2:45-4:30 PM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Session: Identity, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Twentieth-Century Eastern European Architectural and Urban Planning Discourse

Chair: Johnathon Vsetecka, Michigan State U

Papers: Social Housing Estates and the Post-World War II Reconstruction of Warsaw, 1945-1955 - Ania        Hyman, American U

Urban Authenticity in Szczecin: A Modern or a Historic City from a Tourist Perspective - Tabitha Redepenning, Herder Inst for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Germany)

Architecture as a Tool for Social Stratification - Ia Kupatadze, Ilia State U (Georgia)

Precarious Life of a Building - Ketevan Gurchiani, Ilia State U (Georgia)

2:45-4:30 PM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 7th Floor, Sandburg 5)

Session: Empire and its Others: Negotiating Identity Musically in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Chair: Polina Dimcheva Dimova, U of Denver

Papers: Negotiating Orthodox Sound in the Caucasus: Chant Revival and Georgian National Identity -           Rebecca Anne Mitchell, Middlebury College

Popular Music in Tiflis/Tbilisi around 1900: Between Cosmopolitanism and the Nation - Jonas Alexander Loeffler, U of Cologne (Germany)

Ethnic Minorities and Their Musical Instruments: Cultural Hierarchy on Display - Adalyat Issiyeva, McGill U (Canada)

From Steppe to Stage: Racialization and the Making of the First Kazakh National Opera - Knar Abrahamyan, Columbia University

5:00-6:45 PM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, Salon 4)

Session: Carpatho-Rusyn Visual Culture: Europe

Chair: Nicholas Kyle Kupensky, U.S. Air Force Academy

Papers: Mihály Munkácsy’s 'Blind Milton Dictating 'Paradise Lost' to His Daughters': Contemporary Views    - Bogdan Horbal, New York Public Library

The Subcarpathian School of Painting - Paul Robert Magocsi, U of Toronto (Canada)

The Life and Art of Anthony Kubek - Nicholas Kyle Kupensky, U.S. Air Force Academy

5:00-6:45 PM (CST) – Sat Nov 12 (The Palmer House Hilton, 7th Floor, Sandburg 3)

Session: Precarity, Recovery, and the Soviet Spatial Imaginary: From the Revolution to the First Five-Year Plan

Chair: Maria Taroutina, Yale-NUS College (Singapore)

Papers: Imprinting: The Day of Soviet Propaganda and the Art of Implication - Kristin E. Romberg, U of      Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Proekty Rabochykh Zhilishch: Housing Standardization to Counter Economic Precarity - Christina Elizabeth Crawford, Emory U

Precarious Bodies and the Space of Recovery in the Soviet 1920s and 1930s - Aglaya Glebova, UC Berkeley