Photography and Visual Orders in the History of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
International Workshop at the German Historical Institute Moscow in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) “Threatened Orders” of Tübingen UniversityPROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT
Excursion to the Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk
THURSDAY, 3 OCT
10:30 – 11:00 Welcome and Introduction
Katja Bruisch
Isabelle de Keghel
Katharina Kucher
Andreas Renner
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30
Panel 1 - Visualizing the Empire
Anja Burghardt
Hierarchical Orders in the Ethnographic Image
Laura Elias
Photography and Ethnography: A.N. Charuzin’s Travel to the Inner Horde
Ewa Manikowska
Survey Photography and the Shaping of National and Cultural Identities in the Western Lands of the Russian Empire
Timothy Alexander Nunan
An Empire Reframed? Soviet Documentary Photography in Postwar Central Asia
Discussant: Andreas Renner
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30
Panel 2 - Photography as Social Practice: The Making of Visual Orders
Nadezhda Krylova
Police Photography in Russia in the Second Half of the XIX – early XX Centuries: Visualizing the Subject and the Type
Diljara Usmanova
Photographers in the Duma: Visualization of Political Life in Late Imperial Russia
Christopher Stolarski
The Threat of Interpretation: Photography, Magazines, and Iconic Images in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-39
Discussant: Isabelle de Keghel
16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:45
Panel 3 - Visual Representation of Orders and Change
Lenka Fehrenbach
Industrial Images: The Representation of Industrialization in the Photographic Imagery of Empire
Oxana Gavrishina
«…I can see the Red Square»: The Cultivation of Gaze in the 20th Century Photographs of the Red Square
Johanna Conterio
The Photograph as Autobiography: The Photographs of Nikolai Doroshchuk, 1935-1939
Discussant: Maria Golovnya
FRIDAY, 4 OCT
10:00 – 11:15
Panel 4 (Part I) - Visual Discourses of the Other and of the Enemy. War Visions
Oksana Sarkisova / Olga Shevchenko
“Why should you know this, son?”: The Heroic, the Banal and the Improbable Narratives of World War II on the Materials of One Domestic Photographic Archive
Erika Wolf
Photographs from the Battlefield in Frontovaia illiustratsiia and Front-Illustrierte: Images of the Enemy in Soviet Photographic Propaganda of the Great Patriotic War
Discussant: Alexander Ananyew
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break
11.30-13:30
Panel 4 (Part II) - Visual Discourses of the Other and of the Enemy. War Visions
Martin Deuerlein
The Image of Détente: Photography and Soviet-American relations during the 1970s
Roman Krawielicki
Visualizing novoe myshlenie: The Photographic Dimension of the De-escalation of Soviet-American Threat Discourses in the Eighties
Philipp Casula
The Other in Pictures of War and Peace in the Soviet Union and in Contemporary Russia
Discussant: Katharina Kucher
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30
Panel 5 - Challenging the Established Order: Beyond Official Photography
Ulrike Huhn
The Discovery of the Village? Ethnographic Fieldwork in Late Stalinism
Dina Gusejnova / Olga Smith
The Aesthetics of zastoi: The Social Production of the Amateur in the last Soviet Decade
Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė
The "Lithuanian Photographic School" as a Challenge to the Dominant (Visual) Order?
Discussant: Katja Bruisch
16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:45 Concluding Discussion
Klaus Gestwa
Valerij Stigneev
18:00 Reception
German Historical Institute Moscow, Nachimovskij Prospekt 51/21, 117418 Moscow