General Public

The Conference is held online. Time references are in Central European Time.
Please register for online participation: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LsW0fzeYRcKRHx_SRi-FEg

DAY 1 – THURSDAY, 7 MARCH 2024
9:00 Welcome addresses (Mira Kozhanova and Maria Taroutina)
9:30 PANEL 1: MOVING EAST: THE ASIAN ARC OF MIGRATION Chair: Mira Kozhanova
David Low, Singapore
The Russian Connection in Singapore’s Local Art Identity
Olga Isaeva, University of Bonn, Germany
David Davidovich Burliuk and Futurism in Japan: Letting go of painting that is fixed to a single style
Katya Knyazeva, University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy
The émigré artist Victor Podgoursky and his legacy in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kazan
11:30 PANEL 2: MOVING WEST: RETHINKING MIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN EASTERN EUROPE Chair: Christian Drobe
Jakub Hauser, Museum of Czech Literature, Prague, Czech Republic
Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts in Interwar Prague in the Context of the Exile Community from the Former Russian Empire
Daria Kostina, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Representatives of the Kalmyk Immigrant Community in Portraits of the Immigrant Artist Grigory Musatov in the Interwar Prague
Liudmila Sharaya, Arizona State University, USA
Between alienation and appropriation: Russian émigrés and space of Bulgaria and France during the interwar period
14:00 PANEL 3: NEGOTIATING BELONGING IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS Chair: Maria Taroutina
Marija Podzorova-Biret, Laboratory ICT, University Paris Cité, France
Navigating Ideological Crossroads: Georgy K. Loukomski in the mediation of the Soviet art and cultural policy in the West
Jeffrey Taylor, US Fulbright Scholar, European Humanities University Vilnius, Lithuania
From the lost Eva Striker to the survivor Eva Zeisel
Lina Bernstein, Franklin & Marshall College, USA
The Many Lives of Magda Nachman
Roann Barris, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Boris Aronson: An Artist on the Move
16:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Object Travel (Maps of Misreading) by Jane Sharp, Rutgers University, USA
DAY 2 – FRIDAY, 8 MARCH 2024
9:30 PANEL 4: TRANSNATIONAL REALITIES OF GLOBAL ARTISTIC EXCHANGES Chair: Mira Kozhanova
Bronislava Prakhiy, Ekaterina Heath, Ksenia Radchenko, University of Sydney, Australia
Reclaiming Danila Vassilieff: Transnational Hybridity of a Cossack Émigré in Australian Modernism
Dilara Ulu, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
From Exile to Citizenship: The Influence of Vladimir Zender’s Network in Istanbul on his Photography
Julieta Pestarino, 4A_Lab / University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anatole Saderman. A photographer between Moscow and South America
11:30 PANEL 5: GENDER AND ARTISTIC MOBILITY
Chair: Louise Hardiman
Anja Wilhelmi, Northeast-Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany
The significance of gender and marital status in migration and exile for artists, using the example of Eva-Margarete Borchert (1878–1964)
Christa Spreizer, Queens College, The City University of New York, USA
The artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and “Die Emigrantin als Bardame” (The Female Emigrant as Barmaid)
Pauline Walkiewicz, Europe-Eurasia Research Center (CREE), INALCO, Paris, France
Interactions and network of the Russian artists: the case of Mela Muter (1876–1967) and Zofia Piramowicz (1880–1958), two women artists from Warsaw during the Partition
Priscilla Manfren, University of Padua, Italy
A Young Russian Girl between Africa and Europe: Life and Works of Olga de Goguine
14:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The (in)visible borders and crossroads of the Russophone artistic emigration (1880-1939) By Vita Susak, Swiss Academic Society for Eastern European Studies, Switzerland
16:30 ROUNDTABLE „UNITY IN DIVERSITY? THE ENTANGLED HISTORIES OF MIGRANT ARTISTS FROM THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE/SOVIET UNION“ Chair: Maria Taroutina
Speakers:
Marina Dmitrieva, Independent art historian, Germany
Krista Kodres, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Maria Silina, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of RAINBOW (Raduga/Rajduga)
Ukrainian SSR, 1944. 93 minutes.
Directed by Mark Donskoj. Digital file. Dovzhenko Film Center, Kyiv.
on Saturday, October 7, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L01
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles

Arguably the progenitor of the partisan film genre, RAINBOW offers a still-horrifying portrayal of atrocities wrought by the Nazis upon inhabitants of a Ukrainian village, as well as the unflinching resistance with which the butchers are met.

Sponsors:
Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program; European Studies Council; Whitney Humanities Center; Yale Film Archive; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; and Film and Media Studies Program

About the Film Series: In the aftermath of World War II, several European states started reconstructing and reimagining their identities and recent histories by producing a vast number of films that celebrated and commemorated their guerrilla struggles against fascism. These films ranged in scope and ambition from intimate psychological dramas to overblown military spectacles, from elegiac recollections to pure pulp fiction. Similar to Hollywood westerns, partisan films were the defining genre of the socialist film industry for a significant period. Moreover, in the late 60s and early 70s, both genres reinvented themselves and underwent a political revision that ended their respective “classical periods.” Despite being hugely successful in their domestic markets and often cinematically accomplished, many examples of the partisan films never traveled abroad, and most film prints today remain locked up and in dire need of preservation in various national film archives. Aside from a handful of canonical works, the majority of films we will screen have never been shown in the U.S.

Ayse Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. Her research is at the intersection of IR and historical sociology, focusing on East-West relations in the international system, history and future of world order(s), conceptualizations of modernity and sovereignty, rising and declining powers, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective.

Cosponsored by the Fox International Fellowship

Screening of the award-winning documentary The Land of Azaba, a Spanish-language film set in Western Spain that closely observes the largest land preservation and ecological restoration project in Europe. Followed by a Q&A with the film director Greta Schiller, an Emmy-Award-winning veteran documentary filmmaker based in New York, and Carlos Sanchez, the film protagonist and President of Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre.
The Land of Azaba is the first feature documentary on the subject of ecological restoration, and it is set in one of the world’s first “hot spots” for increasing and maintaining bio-diversity, Campanarios de Azaba Nature Reserve in Western Spain. The Land of Azaba immerses the viewer in a magical world where humans and wildlife work together to restore the largest remaining tract of wild nature in Western Europe.

Movie screening on Thursday, April 13th, 2023 (25mn) followed immediately by Q&A session (35mn).

We have lost 75% of the world’s global seed diversity. Restoring seed biodiversity is important to ensure our food systems are resilient to climate change and protect our cultural diversity – recipes using ancient, diverse, heirloom varieties that enrich our lives here on planet Earth with one another. The film Frø - Nordic Seed Heroes explores the intersection of people and seeds, from all the way up to the Arctic Circle at the Svalbard Global Gene Vault to the middle of a wheat field in rural Denmark.

The film features the following seed heroes based in the Nordic regions (in order of appearance): the Brinkholm Andelsgaarde farm, the Nordic Genetic Resource Center and Crop Trust’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the University of Oslo’s Natural History Museum, Frøsamlerne (the Danish Seed Savers), Kørnby Mølle, Grønt Marked, Losæter urban farm, Drys Nu, and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center.

The documentary is a research initiative by Charly Frisk, a student at Yale School of Environment, and a collaborative initiative with the University of Oslo’s Natural History Museum, funded by the Garden of Club of America, the Scandinavian Seminar, the Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses at Yale, and the Danish Heritage Society.

The Q&A will be led by Ulla Kasten, Council on Middle East Studies Research Scholar at the MacMillan Center at Yale and former Associate Curator and Museum Editor of the Yale Babylonian Collection.