CONF.- Extended Deadline, Revisiting Perestroika
Posted by: 7th Annual Conference Aleksanteri Institute <aleksanteri7@gmail.com>
Extended Deadline for Abstracts: 18 June
Revisiting Perestroika - Processes And Alternatives
http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2007
The response to our CfP has been substantial and of high quality. We
have also received a large number of late submissions - including an
especially WELCOME and growing response from departments of Economics,
Law and the Social Sciences. We also have several new and, dare we
say, prestigious components in our series of Aleksanteri Cultural Fora
to announce!
http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2007/cultural_fora.htm
Adding to this the delay with which our CfP reached scholars worldwide
(some e-lists have been ponderously slow to act), we have decided to
EXTEND THE DEADLINE for papers to the 18th of June. For those who have
put up the poster or other notices, please be so kind as to mark this
change on your bulletin boards accordingly!
The news from the Cultural Fora include:
1. Confirmation of a substantial EXHIBITION at one of Northern
Europe's most prestigious art institutions - The Museum Of
Contemporary Art, Kiasma:
"Raw Materials - The Archive Of Art And The Art Of Archives" The "Raw
Materials" exhibition excavates the choices and power mechanisms
involved in 'making history' by manifesting this process as lived
(installation), mediatized (archival and audio-visual documents), made
'scientific' (archival categorization) and reflexively absorbed into
society (socio-cognitive maps). This is all connected through a
process of language -game and memory construction made physically
tangible in the exhibition in such a way, that the audience itself
steps into the (art-) historical process of choosing from the massive
archive of archives accumulated outside of hitherto 'approved
history'. The viewer is given insight and a personal experience in
separating this archive into categories (Greek kategoria,
'accusation', 'assertion', 'predication'), applying concepts, and thus
"writing history".
(Reception at Kiasma Museum on the final day of the 7th Annual Conference)
2. Dmitri PRIGOV: confirmation of the attendance of the renowned
perestroika-era poet.
LITERARY PLATFORM with Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov
A reading, discussions and panels with this "66-year-old avant-gardist
and hooligan", perhaps the best-known poet of the perestroika era,
will be held in parallel to the conference. The poet is hosted by the
Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, Helsinki University.
We encourage you to use the extra time to inform your colleagues, form
panels or potentially inform us of your willingness to chair a panel
or act as a discussant for this unusual series of events.
Ivor Stodolsky
Conference Organiser
Conference e-mails: fcree-aleksconf@helsinki.fi // aleksanteri7@gmail.com
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