September 30 – October 1, 2016 Princeton University
The 2016 Workshop is the continuation of the original symposium that took place in May 2015.
The main goal of this workshop is to finalize our contributions to the edited volume The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children, which grew out of the initial meeting.
Workshop Schedule
September 30, 2016
PANEL ONE: IDEOLOGICAL ICONS
10.00 – 12.00
Presenters: Marina Sokolovskaia & Daniil Leiderman
Seeing Lenin’s Double: The Visuality of Soviet Childhood
Discussant: Helena Goscilo
Presenter: Thomas Keenan
New America: the Brave New New World of Soviet Civilization in Soviet Children’s Books, 1919-1932
Discussant: Sara Pankenier Weld
12.00 – 12.50
Stephen M. Norris
Young Soldiers at Play: The Red Army Soldier as Icon
Discussant: Maria Starkova-Vindman
14.00 – 14.50
Presenter: Helena Goscilo
The Radiant Path to the Thrice-Tenth Kingdom of the Soviets: Magical Modes of Education and Conversion
Discussant: Yuri Leving
14.50 – 17.40 PANEL TWO: SPEEDING TIME
Presenter: Kevin M.F. Platt
From Revolutionary Dynamism to Plan and Program: Visualizing Temporality in Soviet Children’s Culture
Discussant: Alexey Golubev
Presenter: Michael Kunichika
The Camel and the Caboose: Viktor Shklovsky’s Turksib and the Pedagogy of Uneven Development
Discussant: Larissa Rudova
Presenter: Katherine Hill Reischl
Aero-plane, Aero-boat, Aero-sled: Propelling Everywhere in Soviet Transportation
Discussant: Aleksandar Bošković
October 1, 2016
9.30 – 12.30 PANEL THREE: BOOKS AS OBJECTS
Presenter: Yuri Leving
Alisa Poret’s Revolution of Vision: Cinema, Propaganda and Avant-Guard
Discussant: Kevin M.F. Platt
Presenter: Aleksandar Bošković
Autonomous Animals Animated: Samozveri as A Constructivist Pedagogical Cine-Dispositive
Discussant: Michael Kunichika
Presenter: Birgitte Beck Pristed
The Fragile Power of Paper and Projections
Discussant: Bradley Gorski
13.30 – 15.10 PANEL FOUR: LIVING THINGS
Presenter: Sara Pankenier Weld
Man, Machine, and Man-Machine: The Child as Instrument of Futurity
Discussant: Elena Fratto
Presenter: Larissa Rudova
Visualizing the Natural World for Children: To Exploit or to Cherish
Discussant: Daniil Leiderman
15.30 – 17.10 PANEL FIVE: NEW COLLECTIVITIES
Presenter: Alexey Golubev
The Working Body and Its Prostheses: Anatomy of Class in the Early Soviet Children’s Literature
Discussant: Katherine Hill Reischl
Presenter: Maria Starkova-Vindman
En-gendering the New Soviet Child: Representations of Gender in the Early Soviet Children’s Press
Discussant: Thomas Keenan
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17.15 – 17.45 Katherine Hill Reischl: The Pedagogy of Images: a Digital Phase.
