Humanities Frontiers Workshop
Humanities Frontiers Workshop: Archaists and Innovators Re-read Viktor Shklovsky’s In 60 Years: Works on Cinema
Organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University), Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University), and Julia Vaingurt and Matthew Kendall (UIC Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)
Excerpt of In 60 Years: Works on Cinema, by Viktor Shklovsky, here.
Please note: we are delighted to welcome the public to sessions on Friday, October 15, 2021.
Please register to receive a link for Friday sessions, here.
Saturday and Sunday Sessions are open to invited participants only.
Workshop Schedule
9:30 - 10:00am Breakfast
10:00 – 12:00 – SESSION 1
Kevin Platt: Loop, Cut, Cycle: The Shapes of Celluloid Histories
Matthew Kendall: "нрзб": Shklovskii's Sound Proofing
12:00 – 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 – SESSION 2
Lilya Kaganovsky: Mistakes. Injuries. Cinema: 60 Years of Being Wrong About Cinema
Maria Belodubrovskaya: Rape, as Device: Shklovsky’s Cinegrammatical Palimpsest
3:00 – Coffee Break
4:00-7:00 – FILM SCREENING
VMayakovsky (Dir. Alexander Shein, 2018)
Film screening will be followed by the Q&As with the film director Alexander Shein (via zoom).
Location: Gallery 400, 400 South Peoria St.
7:00 - Dinner
October 16, Saturday:
9:30 - 10:00 - Breakfast
10:00 – 12:00 – SESSION 3
Oksana Bulgakowa: Ошибки и изобретения. Шкловский и вещь на экране
Mark Lipovetsky: Shklovsky’s Theory of Parody?
12:00 – 12:30 - Coffee Break
12:30 – 2:30 – SESSION 4
Colleen McQuillen: Art as Analysis, or How Can Shklovsky Address Climate Change
Serguei Oushakine: What Is and What Ought to Be: Curing Modal Schizophrenia of Socialist Realism with Shklovsky
2:30 – 3:30 – Lunch
3:30 – 5:30 – SESSION 5
Ilya Kalinin: Куда шагали Дзига Вертов и Виктор Шкловский? Шестая часть мира: между эпосом и очерком.
7:00 – Dinner for the participants, location TBD.
October 17, Sunday:
9:30-10:00 - Breakfast
10:00 – 12:00 – SESSION 6
Nariman Skakov: On Tolstoy and Errors (yet again)
Julia Vaingurt: Freedom and Necessity, Immunity and Community in Shklovsky’s Thoughts on Cinematic Tragedy
12:00 – 1:00 – Farewell lunch & departure.