February 27– 28, 2004   University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PRESENTER BIOS & ABSTRACTS   FILM SERIES    SPONSORS    CONTACT
Film Screening    Screening of Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark (Russkii kovcheg), 2002    Friday, February 27 7:30pm Boardman’s Art Theatre 126 W. Church, Champaign Filmed with a cast of thousands, three live orchestras and an army of technicians at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russian Ark is the longest uninterrupted shot in film history, and the first feature film ever created in a single take. Director Alexander Sokurov's cinematic tour-de-force follows a modern filmmaker who magically finds himself transported to the 18th century. There, he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. Introduction by Dragan Kujundzic (University of California, Irvine) Post-screening discussion with conference participants For ticket information and schedule of the film's later showings see www.boardmansarttheatre.com or call 1-800-BEST-PLACE, 217-355-0068	Conference Saturday, February 28 9:00am - 5:30pm 407 Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois, Urbana Parking Info Conference free and open to public. Related Lecture Thursday, February 26 4:00pm, 101 International Studies Building "Charlie Chaplin and Soviet Avant-garde Art of the 1920s" Yuri Tsivian (Humanities, University of Chicago)
Faculty Organizers:  Lilya Kaganovsky, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, & Cinema Studies, University of Illinois Dragan Kujundzic, English & Comparative Literature, & Russian Studies, University of California, Irvine Organizer: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois   Cosponsors: Cross-Campus Initiative on Humanities in a Globalizing World Center for Advanced Study College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Foreign Language Building Executive Committee Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Program in Comparative and World Literature Silicon, Carbon, Culture Initiative Unit for Cinema Studies Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
For more information , contact:   Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center University of Illinois 217.333.1244 or reec@uiuc.edu   top

Conference Program Saturday, February 28

9:00-9:30 Introductory remarks Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9:30-10:00 Tony Anemone (The College of William and Mary) “Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark: From Russian Idea to Russian Mirage” Chair: Yuri Tsivian (University of Chicago) 10:15-10:45 José Alaniz (University of Washington) “Death and ‘Nature’ in Sokurov’s Mother and Son” Chair: Anke Pinkert (UIUC) 11:00-11:30 Roman Timenchik (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem) “Towards the Poetics of Khrustalev, My Car!” Chair: Harriet Murav (UIUC) 11:45-12:15 Helena Goscilo (University of Pittsburgh) “Re-Conceptualizing Moscow (W)hole-Sale” Chair: Dragan Kujundzic (University of California, Irvine) 12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:45-2:15 Alexander Prokhorov (The College of William & Mary) “The Chronotope of Knowledge: The Soviet School Film and Post-Soviet Education as Journey in Sergei Solov’ev’s Gentle Age” Chair: Valeria Sobol (UIUC) 2:30-3:00 Elena Prokhorova (The College of William & Mary) “Nostalgic Exploits: Russian Television and Cinema in Search of a New ‘Masterplot’” Chair: Gary Xu (UIUC) 3:15-3:45 Mark Lipovetsky (University of Colorado) “Post-Socialist Realism: Balabanov’s Voina” Chair: Diane Koenker (UIUC) 4:00-4:30 Lilya Kaganovsky (UIUC) "After Communism: Sergei Livnev's Serp i molot" Chair: Mark Steinberg (UIUC) 4:45-5:30 Post-Conference Discussion moderated by Dragan Kujundzic 6:00 Reception, Bread Co., Urbana