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International workshop
CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA
10-11 December, 2015
University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute
Organised by Sanna Turoma, Meri Kulmala and Saara Ratilainen
Description
This multidisciplinary workshop aims to produce a critical and comprehensive account of reforms and
transformations that have taken place in Russian cultural institutions since the disintegration of the Soviet
Union. Ultimately, the project will enrich our understanding of Russian cultural politics and institutional
developments in the age of neoliberal globalization, post-industrial consumerism, multiculturalism, and
transnational identities. The analysis focuses on formal institutions affiliated with cultural production and
associated with state funding and/or citizen and volunteer activities, and focuses on the role of agency in
the institutional production of culture.
Confirmed speakers and titles:
Victor Apryshchenko (Southern Federal U): Modernization vs Sacralization: Historical Memory in
Contemporary Russia
Miguel Vázquez Liñán (U Seville): Constructing a Culture of Memory for Russia: The "International
Memorial Society"
Mari Ristolainen (University of Tromso): Non-professional Literature in Contemporary Russia
Jussi Lassila & Tomi Huttunen (Helsinki U): Writers and Politics
Saara Ratilainen (Helsinki U): Publishing Houses and their Digital Projects
Margarita Kuleva (HSE, St. Petersburg): Accounting, Social Media Marketing and Minor Repair: Practices of
Culture Administration at the "New" and the "Old" Russian Cultural Institutions
Maria Safonova, Nadezhda Sokolova & Alexandra Barmina (HSE, St. Petersburg): Organizational Identities
and Inter-Organizational Networks of St. Petersburg Art Institutions
Elena Trubina (Ural Federal U): “Audiencing” Street Art: The Private Cultural Institution and the Precarious
Artistic Community (the case of Stenograffia street art festival)
Alisa Prudnikova (Yekaterinburg Centre for Contemporary Art)
Vlad Strukov (U Leeds): Contemporary as (a)Political: New Cultural Centres in the Russian Federation
Meri Kulmala (Helsinki U): Dom Kultury
Anastassia Smirnova & Ulla Pape (University of Radboud): Civil Society and the Public Sphere: How Public
Space is Transformed to Strengthen Civic Action: The Experience of the Project “Restructuring Public
Libraries”
Aleksandr Zverev (HSE, Moscow): Media Opportunities as a Driver of Protest Movement's Evolution in
Contemporary Russia. Case of Moscow Heritage Movement
Sanna Turoma (Helsinki U): The Brodsky Foundation
Christine Engel (U Innsbruck): Muzei kino at the Crossroad of Politics, Institutions and Business
Ira Ösrterberg (Helsinki U): The Rise of Independent Film Production and the Role of the Producer: Case of
Sergei Selyanov and CTB Film Company
For more information, please contact saara.ratilainen@helsinki.fi