transition in post-Soviet Russia
Leading Russian scholars and critics of their country's literature, art, television, cinema, theater and education will visit the campus for a three-day conference titled "Culture in Transition: A Search for Identity Through the Arts in Post-Soviet Russia."
The event, which takes place Friday-Sunday, April 11-13, will explore Russia's current cultural landscape and how the relaxing of censorship and decrease in government funding since the collapse of the Soviet Union have impacted the arts in that country. The public is invited to attend; admission is free.
"In today's Russia, the seismic cultural and political shifts caused by the collapse of the former Soviet Union are reflected and refracted in exciting and fast-paced developments in the worlds of art, theater, music, literature, journalism, television and film," says Rita Lipson, a senior lector in Slavic languages and literatures and the organizer of the conference. "This conference will offer an 'insider's perspective' on the myriad forces at play in the current cultural evolution."
Among the topics the conference will address are the transition of the arts from "officially sponsored and ideologically oriented" enterprises to independently functioning forms, and "the entangled and contradictory relationship that continues to exist between culture and the state," Lipson adds.
The scholars, critics and artists who will discuss their observations and personal experiences of the state of the Russian arts, literature and the media are: noted Russian poet Evgeny Reyn; Galina A. Belaia, director of the Institute of Russian Philology and History at the Russian State University for Humanities; Maya O. Turovskaya, a theater and film critic and documentary film screenwriter; Nikolai Aleksandrov, a television and radio commentator on Russian literature and literary critic; art critic Leonid Bazhanov, director of the Center of Contemporary Russian Art in Moscow; Vitaly Patsiukov, art critic, commentator and director of the Malevich Center 'DOM'; Maya Volchkevich, a literary critic and Chekhov scholar; Irina Grashchenkova, a film critic and scholar of filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov; and Yuriy Troitsky, a historian and professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
Other participants are Alevtina Kuzicheva, a literary scholar and theater critic who is a member of the Research Institute in Art Criticism; Olga Kostina, an art historian and publisher of the art magazine Russian Gallery; Oleg Petrov, a scholar of dance and theater and professor at Ekaterinburg State University; and Irina Petrovskya, television critic and newspaper and radio commentator.
Conference sessions take place 1:30-5:30 p.m. on Friday; 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on Saturday; and 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Sunday. All sessions will be held in Rm. 100 (the Multi-Media Room) on the ground floor of 370 Temple St. The presentations will be conducted primarily in Russian with simultaneous translation, and conference attendees will have access to a password-controlled conference website.
"Culture in Transition" is sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, with support from the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale. For further information, contact Helen Stopkoski at (203) 432-1300 or helen.stopkoski@yale.edu, or Irina Sivachenko at irina.sivachenko@yale.edu.
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