The symposium takes place April 2–3, 2016 in Performing Arts Building, Room 320 at Reed College. Free and open to the public.
Videos of the symposium are now available.
Saturday, April 2, 2016
3 p.m.
Opening Remarks
3:15–4:45 p.m.
Keynote Lecture
Daniel Treisman (UCLA)
“Putin and Crimea: Anatomy of a Decision”
5–6:30 p.m.
Panel: “Putinism and History”
- Sergei Glebov (Smith and Amherst), “Putinism: A Historical Trajectory”
- Polina Barskova (Hampshire), “ ‘Is the Siege of Leningrad Over Yet?’: Repurposing the Disaster”
Sunday, April 3, 2016
10:30 a.m.–noon
Panel: “Media and Gender in Today’s Russia”
- Julie Cassiday (Williams), “Charisma, Camp, or Kitsch? Gender in Putin’s Russia”
- Konstantine Klioutchkine (Pomona), “Recent Career Paradigms in Russian Journalism and New Media”
1:30–3 p.m.
Keynote Lecture
Maria Stepanova (Colta.Ru)
“The Media and the Message: Russian Sensibility in Putin's Times”
3:30–5 p.m.
Panel: “Russia’s Self-Help and Ukraine’s Resistance”
- Olga Shevchenko (Williams), “Delai sam: Self-help, Difference and Collective Imagination in the Putin Era”
- Alexandra Hrycak (Reed), “Rituals and Resistance to Putinism in Ukraine”
5:15–6:30 p.m.
Roundtable: “Teaching Today’s Russia to American College Students: Challenges and Solutions”
- Evgenii Bershtein (Reed), moderator
- Baktygul Aliev (Williams)
- Cathy Ciepiela (Amherst)
- Anne Dwyer (Pomona)
6:30 p.m.
Reception
This symposium is sponsored by the Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC) and Reed College. For more information, please email Professor Evgenii Bershtein.