[Bilimsel Haber] Conference: Samizdat and Underground Culture in the Soviet Bloc Countries (April 6-7, 2006, Penn U)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Kimden: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <sao15 at columbia.edu>

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/calendar/samizdat_cold_war.htm

For more information, please contact Liliana Milkova at
<mailto:lmilkova at sas.upenn.edu>


The Slavic Department and the Cold War Project at the University of
Pennsylvania present:

Samizdat and Underground Culture in the Soviet Bloc Countries

Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania

April 6-7, 2006

"Samizdat and Underground Culture in the Soviet Bloc Countries" is the
first scholarly gathering in the United States dedicated to the specific
practice of underground anti-establishment literature and artistic
activities that flourished from the mid-1950s through the 1980s. The
conference brings experts in the field from both the US and abroad to
offer a comparative study of the variety of dissident literary and
artistic practices in the Eastern Bloc countries, and to offer a
critical approach towards their national specificity and formative
socio-political factors. The conference is co-sponsored by the Slavic
Department and the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn.


Schedule:

April 6, 2006, Penn Humanities Forum (3619 Locust Walk, Philadelphia)

2-5 pm:  Samizdat Workshop led by
Olga Zaslavskaia (Open Society Archives, Budapest)
Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto)
Wolfgang Eichwede (Director, Research Centre for East European Studies,
University of Bremen)
Vera Skop (Skoloskyp, Inc., Kiev)

6-7 pm:  "Protest" (1978) by Vaclav Havel, translated by playwright and
New York University professor Carol Rocamora and read by Villanova
University professor James Christy and playwright Michael Hollinger

April 7, 2005 , Penn Humanities Forum (3619 Locust Walk, Philadelphia )

9 am : Opening remarks, Kevin Platt, Chair, Slavic Department,
University of Pennsylvania


Session 1, 9:30 - 11:30

Chair: Joseph Benatov, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania

Ann Komaromi, University  of Toronto
"The Material Existence of Samizdat: Methodological Implications"

Martin Machovec, Comenius College and Charles University, Prague
"The Types and Function of Samizdat Publications in Czechoslovak
Cultural Resistance in 1948-1989.

Wolfgang Eichwede, Research Center for East European Studies, University
of Bremen
"Archipelago Samizdat. The Impact of Samizdat Culture on the
Contemporary History of Central and Eastern Europe."


Session 2, 11:30 - 1:30
Chair: Vladislav Todorov,  University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Ben Nathans,  University of  Pennsylvania

Jan Kubik, Rutgers University and Polish Academy of Sciences
"Avant-garde Theater Contra State Socialism: What Was Global before the
Era of  Globalization (in Tadeusz Kantor's Theater)?"

Carol Rocamora, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
"'Far from the Theatre': The Playwright Vaclav Havel in the 1970s"

J. Martin Daughtry, University of Southern California
"'Est' Magnitofon Sistemy "Yauza!" I Etogo Dostatochno!': Magnitizdat as
Musical Practice."


Lunch Break, 1:30 - 2:30


Session 3, 2:30 - 4
Chair: Liliana Milkova, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Istvan Varkonyi, Temple University

Albena Vassileva, Brooklyn College of the City  University of New York
"Bulgarian Discursive Resistance in Bulgarian Late Communist Culture."

Alexander Gribanov, Suffolk University
"Samizdat in KGB Analysis of 1970-1971: Reading and Comparison of Two
Documents."


5 pm : Reception (TBA)


Presenters include:

Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Professor in English and Comparative
Literature, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

Ann Komaromi, Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Toronto

Alexander Gribanov, Professor, Suffolk University and Archivist of the
Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center, Brandeis University

Carol Rocamora, Professor of Theater, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
University

James Christy, Professor in Theater, Villanova University

Jan Kubik, Professor in Political Science, Rutgers University and Polish
Academy of Sciences

Martin (James) Doughtry, Ethnomusicology, University of Southern California

Michael Hollinger, Playwright and Assistant Professor in Theater,
Villanova University

Olga Zaslavskaia, Samizdat Archives Curator, Open Society Archives,
Budapest, Hungary

Wolfgang Eichwede, Professor and Director of the Research Centre for
East European Studies, University of Bremen

Vera Skop , Board of Directors, Skoloskyp, Inc., Kiev, Ukraine



For more information, please contact Liliana Milkova at
<mailto:lmilkova at sas.upenn.edu>

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