Art and the State in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

ART AND THE STATE IN EASTERN EUROPE AND EURASIA

Undergraduate Conference

Macalester College

April 27, 2024

Location: Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Art Commons 102

Conference Program

9:00-9:30. Light Breakfast 

9:30-9:40. Welcoming Remarks by Dr. Julia Chadaga and Dr. Masha Fedorova

9:40-10:00. Poetry Reading I

10:00 - 11:00. Panel 1. Art under Tsarism and Communism

• Griffin Nesbit, Macalester College, “Rebels Reborn: Ideological Change and Poetry in Chechen Resistance and Terror” 

• Stella Gardner, Macalester College, "The Wanderers: A Critical Analysis of the Social Power of Anti-Institutional Art Movements in Nineteenth-Century Russia"

• Milo Clarkson, Macalester College, "Russia’s Cultural Thermometer: Imperial Balls at the Turn of the 20th Century"

• Nicolas Moiseyev, Macalester College, “Lenin in Budapest”

11:00-11:15. Break

11:15-11:30: Poetry Reading II

11:30-12:30. Keynote Lecture by Anna Ivanov ‘18

12:30-1:30. Lunch

1:30-2:30. Panel 2. Art and Identity

• Jack Szczuka, Indiana University, “Patriotism in Contemporary Uzbek songs”

• Antonio Bernardo, Grinnell College, “The Development of Rap in Kyrgyzstan”

• Aliya Salikhzyanova, Claremont McKenna College, “Contemporary Tatar Theater: Post-Colonial Discourse in a Russian Ethnic Republic”

• Darina Kozhakhmetova, Carleton College, “Qantar Events in Kazakhstan” 

2:30-2:45. Break

2:45-3:00. Mini-concert featuring Amman Hussain ‘24 on guitar and Ria Edberg ‘27 on dombra 

3:00-4:00. Panel 3. Art and Power

• Natalie Pollock, Macalester College, "Fabergé and Nicholas II: How Imperial Gift-Giving Practices Undermined the Russian Autocracy"

• Brennan Teutsch, University of Oklahoma,  "Harmonizing Censorship: Unveiling the Life of Tchaikovsky, Russia's Greatest Composer”

• Anna Matveeva, Bard College, “‘The Body’ by Genrikh Sapgir: the Soviet Context”

• Alex Weidenfeld, Wesleyan University, "Samvydav, Piracy, Zines: Ukrainian Expressions of Agency through Self-Publication"