Paulina Duda, Visiting Assistant Professor, delivered the presentation “Film Censors and State Officials during the Polish Film School: Moving beyond Solely Ideological Script Evaluation” at the “Helpful Censors, Story Greed, and the Politics of Reenactment: Revised Approaches to Writing Polish Film History and Reading Polish Documents” panel.
Assistant Professor Fabrizio Fenghi and Visiting Research Fellow Sof Sabbioni participated in the roundtable discussion “Left Perspectives on Cultures of Decline II: Cultural Biopolitics in Post-Soviet Russia,” with presentations on the Russian publishing house Ad Marginum and contemporary Russian imperial literature.
Assistant Professor Maria Taroutina was a discussant at the panels “Art Exhibitions and Their Audiences, 1860–1930” and “The Radical Utopianism of the Soviet Twenties II: Bodies.”
Graduate student Yelena Aydinyan presented a paper titled “The Influence of the Lack of Privacy on the Shaping of Womanhood in Pichul’s ‘Little Vera’ and Balagov’s ‘Closeness’,” at the “Broken Ties and Unwelcoming Spaces in Contemporary Russian Cinema.”
Graduate students Melkon Charchoglyan and Olivia Kennison presented the papers “Freemasonry and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in Leo Tolstoy’s‘War & Peace’” and “Christians before Christianity: Dmitri Merezhkovsky’s Tragedies” at the “In Dialogue with the Antique: Russian Reception of Classical Literature.” Olivia Kennison also chaired this discussion panel.
Graduate student Ksenia Smykovskaya gave a talk on“Debates on Motherhood in Russian Literary and Periodical Texts, 1900s-1920s” at the “Changing Femininity: The Social Construction of Women in Eastern European Literary and Periodical Texts” panel.
Graduate Student Laurel Tollison participated in the “Feminist Scholarships II: Interventions in Disciplinary Conventions” and “Medical Humanities Roundtables I: Health/Death as Liberation: Health and Gender” roundtables.