[Commlist] Shadow Empire: Russian Film Symposium

*/Shadow Empire: Russian Film Symposium (6-11 May 2019)/*

The 21^st annual Russian Film Symposium will focus on a key debate still 
surrounding Russia today: did Russia evolve toward a sustained empire, 
or has it recently reconfigured into what we would now recognize as the 
nation-state? The expansion of ethnicities, nationalities, language 
groups, as well as territory, necessitated the formation of a strong 
central state and administration to oversee the key factors that 
constituted the newly emerged polity. The state and its constantly 
expanding apparatus exercised control over a sixth of the planet, 
several hundred language-speaking communities and ethnicities. While 
this control was maintained in the name of (at times, Holy) Russia, was 
Russia as a nation largely absent?  If so, what does “belonging” look 
like in Russia today?

Films include Aleksei Krasovskii’s /Holiday/ (2019), Sergei Livnev’s 
/Van Goghs/ (2018), Aleksei German, Jr.’s /Dovlatov/ (2018), Aleksei 
Fedorchenko’s /Anna’s War/ (2018), Kirill Serebrennikov’s Summer (2018), 
Oleg Mavromatti’s /Monkey, Ostrich, and Grave/ (2017), Boris 
Khlebnikov’s /Arrhythmia/ (2017), and Mikhail Segal’s /A Film about 
Alekseev/ (2014).

Altogether, the Symposium will screen twelve films and host eight 
discussions with film scholars from Russia, the UK, and the US, with two 
roundtables for the participants to continue issues raised during the 
post-screening discussions. Participants include Russian critics and 
journalists Ekaterina Barabash, Svetlana Khokhriakova, and Oleg Sulkin; 
Oxford scholar Nikolaj Lübecker; US scholars Volha Isakava, Alexander 
Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova, as well as faculty and PhD students 
from Slavic and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

This year's co-sponsors include the Center for Russian, East European, 
and Eurasian Studies (REEES), the University Center for International 
Studies (UCIS), the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, the Film and 
Media Studies Program, the Department of Slavic Languages and 
Literatures, and the Cultural Studies Program.   For the schedule, see 
https://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/schedule-2019/. ; For more information, 
please write Volodya Padunov at (padunov /at/ pitt.edu) <mailto:(padunov /at/ pitt.edu)>.

Prof. Nancy Condee, Director

Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Title VI)

University Center for International Studies

4419 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Program for Film and 
Media Studies

Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences

Cathedral of Learning 1228

http://www.slavic.pitt.edu/person/nancy-condee

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=_klwoloAAAAJ

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