Amherst Center for Russian Culture
Artavazd Pelechian and Sergei Eisenstein : affinities beyond ’distance’ ? Eisenstein International Network Conference 2 : Method and more
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Eisenstein International Network Conference 2 : Method and More
March 2021
For our second conference, Eisenstein International Network members will present new research on Eisenstein’s Method and related topics. Sessions will be held in 4 successive weeks in March. They will be available live via Zoom and will be recorded for later viewing.
Sessions Times :
Sessions will be held on Fridays and Saturdays, at 2 pm NY time (EST) ; 4pm Rio de Janeiro, 7pm London, 8pm Berlin, 10pm Moscow ; 6am Melbourne (+ 1 day). Zoom registrations will help to keep track of the various time zones from which we will be calling in.
The keynote by Maria Stavrinaki on 3/5/21 will be a 2:00 p.m. EST (8:00 Paris).
Please register for each individual session.
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Friday March 5 (register here)
Keynote Lecture
2:00-4:00 pm EST
Maria Stavrinaki : "Eisenstein and the Utopia of Deep Time"
Maria Stavrinaki teaches art history and theory at the Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is working on modernity, at the intersection of art, human sciences and politics and she is particularly interested in the questions of history and time. Her books include Dada Presentism. An Essay on Art and History (Stanford University Press, 2016), Contraindre à la liberté. Carl Einstein, les avant-gardes, l’histoire(Centre allemand de l’histoire de l’art, 2018), Le sujet et le milieu : huit essais sur les avant-gardes allemandes (musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Genève, 2018). Her last book, Saisis par la préhistoire. Enquête sur l’art et le temps des modernes (2019) sera traduit en anglais par Zone Books en 2022 (Trasfixed by Prehistory. An Inqiry on the Art and Time of Modernity). On this same subject, she has codirected, with Stefanos Geroulanos, the special issue "Writing Prehistory" of the journal RES. Anthropology and Aesthetics (Spring 2019). She has co-curated the exhibition Préhistoire. Une énigme moderne (Centre Pompidou, 2019) and is currently preparing an exhibition of the "Atomic Age" (Musée d’art moderne de Paris, 2023). Maria Stavrinaki has been member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Clark Art Institute, the Italian Academy (Columbia University) and other institutions.
Respondent : Antonio Somaini
Saturday March 6 (register here)
14:00-16:00 NY time (EST)
Session 1
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Elective Affinities I
Chair : Karla Oeler
Oksana Bulgakowa, Space/Time : Eisenstein/Benjamin
Ilaria Aletto, “How do you talk ‘within yourself’” : Sergei Eisenstein on the inner monologue of Ulysses
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Elective Affinities II
Chair : Joan Neuberger
Karla Oeler, Method and Heretical Empiricism
Helen Grace, Eisenstein’s Chinese thinking
Friday, March 12 (register here)
14:00-17:00 (EST)
Session 2
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Unity and its Opposites
Chair : Evgenii Bershtein
Dustin Condren, The Author Inside His Theme : Eisenstein and the formation of an intangible oeuvre
Felix Lenz, Hegel and Eisenstein : Affinity and Metamorphosis
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Translating Eisenstein
Chair : Dustin Condren
Evgenii Bershtein, Poetics of Sexuality in Eisenstein’s “Method”
Alessia Cervini and Marie Rebecchi, Il Metodo. A Dialogue on the New Italian Edition
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Session 3
Saturday, March 20 (register here)
14:00-17:00 (EST)
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Interior/Exterior I
Chair : Daria Khitrova
Ana Hedberg Olenina, “Cognition is Construction” : Eisenstein’s Narrative and Spectators’ Extended Cognition
Julia Vassilieva, Method : the one and many paradigms
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Interior/Exterior II
Chair : Ana Olenina
Ada Ackerman, Artavazd Pelechian and Eisenstein
Yuri Tsivian, “Eiertanz and Blumenwunder” : Intellectual Attractions in the Making
Danila Kuznetsov, Maternal Womb and 2001 : A Space Odyssey
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Primitive and Ornament
Chair : Yuri Tsivian
Luis Felipe Labaki, "In Praise of the Cine-Chronicle" and documentary film practices
Nariman Skakov, Ornament as a National Form
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Session 4 (register here)
Friday, March 26
14:00-17:00 NY time (EST)
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Stage & Staging
Chair : Michael Wedel
Vanessa Teixeira de Oliveira, Eisenstein’s Steps – a Hypothesis
Beatrice Picon-Vallin, Meyerhold and Eisenstein, Theatrical Encyclopedia and Method
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Traces
Chair : Eri Barros
Anne Nesbet, Palaces of Memory and Forgetting : Eisenstein, Piranesi, and We
Michael Wedel, Looking for Diego : Velázquez in Eisenstein
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Form in Music & Literature
Chair : Anne Nesbet
Luiz Felipe Soares, A Latin counterpoint/weaving method
Erivoneide Barros, Образности, method of the literary image
Session Five (register here)
Tuesday, March 30
14:00-16:30 NY time (EST)
Robert Bird, In Memoriam
Ian Christie and Julia Vassilieva, Book Presentation The Eisenstein Universe (2021)
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Joan Neuberger, Word by Word : A Digital Analysis of Method”.
Concluding Discussion on Method, with Naum Kleiman and Vera Rumyantseva,
moderated by Antonio Somaini
EIN2 is sponsored by the Eisenstein International Network with the support of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture. The language of the symposium will be English.