The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC) at The University of Manchester will host this symposium, in which leading scholars from across the world will discuss the state of contemporary Russian popular music, cinema, literature and visual arts. The symposium is open to the general public.
10:30-11:00 Coffee and Welcome
11:00-12:30 ‘The New Old’: Popular Music in Russia Now
Chair: Marco Biasioli (University of Manchester, UK)
Speakers:
Caroline Ridler (University of Nottingham, UK)
Aleksei Semenenko (Umeå University, Sweden)
Ilya Yablokov (University of Leeds, UK)
Denis Boyarinov (Colta/Rush, Moscow, Russia)
12:30- 13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Contemporary Russian Cinema: Aesthetics, trends and new movements Chair: Adelaide McGinity-Peebles (University of Manchester, UK)
Speakers:
Natalija Majsova (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Irina Schulzki (LMU Munich, Germany)
Åsne Ø. Høgetveit (University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway)
Jade McGlynn (University of Oxford, UK)
14:30- 14:45 Tea and coffee
14:45- 16:15 Contemporary? Visual Art in Russia
Chair: Nathan Brand (University of Leeds, UK)
Speakers:
Margarita Kuleva (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds, UK)
Fabienne Rachmadiev (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
16:15-16:30 Break
16:30-18:00 Contemporary Russian Literature: Mission Impossible?
Chair: Alessia Benedetti (University of Manchester, UK)
Speakers:
Sarah Hudspith (University of Leeds, UK)
Sara Gear (University of Exeter, UK)
Anna Ponomareva (UCL/ Imperial College London, UK)
'Russian Culture After 2010' is part of New Russias: UK Festival of Contemporary Russian Culture, held in Manchester, UK, 7-9 February 2020. For more information, please visit www.newrussias.com
